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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s830" xml:space="preserve">IT is affirmed conſtantly by many, as an uſual Experiment, That a lump of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-01" xlink:href="note-0044-01a" xml:space="preserve">33.</note>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-02" xlink:href="note-0044-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Decreaſe of the
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              Natural Mo-
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              tion of Gravi-
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              ty in great
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              diſtance ſrom
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              the Earth; or
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              within ſome
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              depth of the
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              Earth.</note>
            Vre, in the bottom of a Mine, will be tumbled and ſtirred by two Mens
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            ſtrength; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s831" xml:space="preserve">which if you bring it to the top of the Earth, will ask ſix Mens
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            ſtrength at the leaſt to ſtir it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s832" xml:space="preserve">It is a noble inſtance, and is fit to be tryed to
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            the full: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s833" xml:space="preserve">For it is very probable, that the Motion of Gravity worketh weakly,
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            both far from the Earth, and alſo within the Earth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s834" xml:space="preserve">The former, becauſe the
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            appetite of Union of Denſe Bodies with the Earth, in reſpect of the diſtance
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            is more dull. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s835" xml:space="preserve">The latter, becauſe the Body hath in part attained his nature,
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            when it is ſome depth in the Earth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s836" xml:space="preserve">For as for the moving to a point or place
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            (which was the opinion of the Antients) it is a meer vanity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s838" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſtrange, how the Antients took up Experiments upon credit, and yet did
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-03" xlink:href="note-0044-03a" xml:space="preserve">34.</note>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-04" xlink:href="note-0044-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Contraction of
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              bodies in bulk,
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              by the mixture
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              of the more
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              Liquid Body,
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              with the more
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              Solid.</note>
            build great Matters upon them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s839" xml:space="preserve">The obſervation of ſome of the beſt of
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            them, delivered confidently, is, That a Veſſel filled with Aſhes, will receive
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            the like quantity of Water, that it would have done if it had been empty. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s840" xml:space="preserve">But
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            this is utterly untrue, for the Water will not go in by a fifth part; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s841" xml:space="preserve">and I ſup-
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            poſe, that that fifth part is the difference of the lying cloſe, or open of the
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            Aſhes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s842" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee, that Aſhes alone, if they be hard preſſed, will lie in leſs
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            room; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s843" xml:space="preserve">and ſo the Aſhes with Air between, lie looſer, and with Water
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            cloſer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s844" xml:space="preserve">For I have not yet found certainly, that the Water it ſelf by mix-
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            ture of Aſhes or Duſt, will ſhrink or draw into leſs room.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s846" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported of credit, That if you lay good ſtore of Kernels of Grapes’,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-05" xlink:href="note-0044-05a" xml:space="preserve">35.</note>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-06" xlink:href="note-0044-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Making Vines
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              more ſruitſul.</note>
            about the Root of a Vine, it will make the Vine come earlier, and proſper
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            better. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s847" xml:space="preserve">It may be tried with other Kernels, laid about the Root of a Plant of
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            the ſame kinde; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s848" xml:space="preserve">as Figs, Kernels of Apples, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s849" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s850" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the
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            Kernels draw out of the Earth Juice fit to nouriſh the Tree, as thoſe that
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            would be Trees of themſelves, though there were no Root; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s851" xml:space="preserve">but the Root
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            being of greater ſtrength, robbeth and devoureth the nouriſhment, when
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            they have drawn it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s852" xml:space="preserve">as great Fiſhes devour little.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s854" xml:space="preserve">THe operation of Purging Medicines, and the cauſes thereof, have been
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-07" xlink:href="note-0044-07a" xml:space="preserve">36.</note>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-08" xlink:href="note-0044-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Purging Me-
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              dicines.</note>
            thought to be a great Secret; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s855" xml:space="preserve">and ſo according to the ſlothful manner
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            of Men, it is referred to a Hidden Propriety, a Specifical Vertue, and a Fourth
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            Quality, and the like ſhifts of Ignorance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s856" xml:space="preserve">The Cauſes of Purging, are
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            divers, All plain and perſpicuous, and throughly maintained by experience.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s857" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, That whatſoever cannot be overcome and digeſted by the
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            Stomack, is by the Stomack, either put up by Vomit, or put down to the
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            Guts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s858" xml:space="preserve">and by that Motion of Expulſion in the Stomack and Guts, other
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            Parts of the Body (as the Orifices of the Veins, and the like) are moved to ex-
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            pel by Conſent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s859" xml:space="preserve">For nothing is more frequent then Motion of Conſent in the
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            Body of Man. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s860" xml:space="preserve">This Surcharge of the Stomack, is cauſed either by the
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            Quality of the Medicine, or by the Quantity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s861" xml:space="preserve">The Qualities are three,
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            Extream Bitter, as in Aloes, Coloquintida, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s862" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s863" xml:space="preserve">Loathſome, and of horrible taſte,
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            as in Agarik Black Hellebore, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s864" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s865" xml:space="preserve">And of ſecret Malignity, and diſagree-
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            ment towards Mans Body, many times not appearing much in the taſte,
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            as in Scammony, Machoacham, Antimony, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s866" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s867" xml:space="preserve">And note well, that if there
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            be any Medicine that Purgeth, and hath neither of the firſt two Manifeſt
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            Qualities, is to be held ſuſpected as a kinde of Poyſon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s868" xml:space="preserve">For that it worketh
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            either by Corroſion, or by a ſecret Malignity, and Enmity to Nature; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s869" xml:space="preserve">and
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            thereſore ſuch Medicines are warily to be prepared and uſed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s870" xml:space="preserve">The quantity
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            of that which is taken, doth alſo cauſe Purging, as we ſee in a great quan-
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            tity of new Milk from the Cow, yea, and a great quantity of Meat: </s>
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