Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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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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thoſe that are not without ſome malignity.</
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Spirit, as appeareth by that they indure not boiling, without much loſs of
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vertue. </
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ging of Vertue, and take away the unpleaſant taſte of the Purger; </
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it is like you may do, by this courſe of infuſing oft with little ſtay. </
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probable, that the horrible and odious taſte is in the groſſer part.</
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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; </
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take and leave that quality which you deſire. </
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ways; </
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the ſame Body, ſucceſſively, in ſeveral Liquors. </
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Orange-Pills, or Roſemary, or Cinnamon, or what you will; </
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fuſe half an hour in Water; </
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other Water; </
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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; </
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the firſt Water will have more of the ſent, as more fragrant; </
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more of the taſte, as more bitter or biting, &</
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Infuſions in Water; </
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other Body) iſſue at ſeveral times, ſome earlier, ſome later: </
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Spirit.</
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deſire alſo to diſcharge them (as hurtful) in ſome other. </
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reaſon of the evaporating of the finer Spirit, inflameth leſs, and is beſt in
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Agues: </
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mingled with Spirit of Wine, or the like: </
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of too high a ſpirit, you were better pour off the firſt Infuſion, after a ſmall
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of Water without: </
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Solitary,
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ſhould riſe ſo ſwiftly, while it is in the Water; </
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top, ſhould be ſtaid by ſo weak a cover, as that of the Bubble is. </
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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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