Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            deeper; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s624" xml:space="preserve">So that if you infuſe Rubarb for an hour, and cruſh it well, it will
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            purge better, and binde the Body leſs after the purging, than if it ſtood
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            Twenty ſ
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            our hours: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s625" xml:space="preserve">This is tried, but I conceive likewiſe, that by repeat-
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            ing the Infuſion of Rubarb, ſeveral times (as was ſaid of Violets) letting
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            each ſtay in but a ſmall time, you may make it as ſtrong a Purging Medi-
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            cine, as Scammony. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s626" xml:space="preserve">And it is not a ſmall thing won in Phyſick, if you can
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            make Ruharb, and other Medicines that are Benedict, as ſtrong Purgers, as
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            thoſe that are not without ſome malignity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s628" xml:space="preserve">Purging Medicines, for the moſt part, have their Purgative Vertue in a fine
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            Spirit, as appeareth by that they indure not boiling, without much loſs of
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            vertue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s629" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is of good uſe in Phyſick, it you can retain the Pur-
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            ging of Vertue, and take away the unpleaſant taſte of the Purger; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s630" xml:space="preserve">which
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            it is like you may do, by this courſe of infuſing oft with little ſtay. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s631" xml:space="preserve">For it is
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            probable, that the horrible and odious taſte is in the groſſer part.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s633" xml:space="preserve">Generally, the working by Infuſions is gro@s and blind, except you firſt
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            try the iſſuing of the ſeveral parts of the Body, which of them iſſue more
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            ſpeedily, and which more ſlowly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s634" xml:space="preserve">and ſo by apportioning thetime, can
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            take and leave that quality which you deſire. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s635" xml:space="preserve">This to know, there be two
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            ways; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s636" xml:space="preserve">the one to try what long ſtay, and what ſhort ſtay worketh, as hath
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            been ſaid; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s637" xml:space="preserve">the other to try, in order, the ſucceeding Infuſions, of one and
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            the ſame Body, ſucceſſively, in ſeveral Liquors. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s638" xml:space="preserve">As for example, Take
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            Orange-Pills, or Roſemary, or Cinnamon, or what you will; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s639" xml:space="preserve">and let them in-
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            fuſe half an hour in Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s640" xml:space="preserve">then take them out, and infuſe them again in
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            other Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s641" xml:space="preserve">and ſo the third time; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s642" xml:space="preserve">and then taſte and conſider the firſt
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            Water, the ſecond, and the third, and you will finde them differing, not one-
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            ly in ſtrength and weakneſs, but otherwiſe in taſte, or odor; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s643" xml:space="preserve">for it may be
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            the firſt Water will have more of the ſent, as more fragrant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s644" xml:space="preserve">and the ſecond
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            more of the taſte, as more bitter or biting, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s645" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s647" xml:space="preserve">Infuſions in Air (for ſo we may call Odors) have the ſame diverſities with
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            Infuſions in Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s648" xml:space="preserve">in that the ſeveral Odors (which are in one Flower, or
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            other Body) iſſue at ſeveral times, ſome earlier, ſome later: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s649" xml:space="preserve">So we finde,
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            that Violets, Woodbines, Strawberries, yield a pleaſing ſent, that cometh forth
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            firſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s650" xml:space="preserve">but ſoon after an ill ſent quite differing from the former. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s651" xml:space="preserve">Which is
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            cauſed not ſo much by mellowing, as by the late iſſuing of the groſſer
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            Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s653" xml:space="preserve">As we may deſire to extract the fineſt Spirits in ſome caſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s654" xml:space="preserve">ſo we may
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            deſire alſo to diſcharge them (as hurtful) in ſome other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s655" xml:space="preserve">So Wine burnt, by
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            reaſon of the evaporating of the finer Spirit, inflameth leſs, and is beſt in
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            Agues: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s656" xml:space="preserve">Opium leeſeth ſome of his po@ſonous quality, if it be vapored out,
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            mingled with Spirit of Wine, or the like: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s657" xml:space="preserve">Sean leeſeth ſomewhat of his
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            windineſs by decocting; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s658" xml:space="preserve">and (generally) ſubtile or windy Spirits are taken
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            off by Incenſion, or Evaporation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s659" xml:space="preserve">And even in Infuſions in things that are
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            of too high a ſpirit, you were better pour off the firſt Infuſion, after a ſmall
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            time, and uſe the latter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s661" xml:space="preserve">BUbbles are in the form of an Hemiſphere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s662" xml:space="preserve">Air within, and a little Skin
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            of Water without: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s663" xml:space="preserve">And it ſeemeth ſomewhat ſtrange, that the Air
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Appetite of
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              Continnation
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            ſhould riſe ſo ſwiftly, while it is in the Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s664" xml:space="preserve">and when it cometh to the
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            top, ſhould be ſtaid by ſo weak a cover, as that of the Bubble is. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s665" xml:space="preserve">But as
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            for the ſwift aſcent of the Air, while it is under the Water, that is a
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            motion of Percuſſion ſrom the Water, which it ſelf deſcending, driveth
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            up the Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s666" xml:space="preserve">and no motion of Levity in the Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s667" xml:space="preserve">And this </s>
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