Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1156" xml:space="preserve">PHyſitians do wiſely preſcribe, that there be Preparatives uſed before Juſt
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-01" xlink:href="note-0052-01a" xml:space="preserve">65.</note>
            Purgations; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1157" xml:space="preserve">for certain it is, that Purgers do many times great hurt, if
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-02" xlink:href="note-0052-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Preparations
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              before Purg-
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              ing, and ſet-
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              ling of the
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              Body afier-
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              ward.</note>
            the Body be not accommodated, both before and after the Purging. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1158" xml:space="preserve">The
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            hurt that they do, for want of Preparation before Purging, is by the ſtick-
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            ing of the Humors, and their not coming fair away; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1159" xml:space="preserve">which cauſeth in the
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            Body great perturbations, and ill accidents, during the Purging; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1160" xml:space="preserve">and alſo
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            the diminiſhing and dulling of the working of the Medicine it ſelf, that it
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            purgeth not ſufficiently: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1161" xml:space="preserve">Therefore the work of Preparation is double, to
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            make the Humors fluide and mature, and to make the paſſages more open;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1162" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe both help to make the Humors paſs readily: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1163" xml:space="preserve">And for the former
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            of theſe, Syrups are moſt profitable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1164" xml:space="preserve">and for the latter, Apozums or Preparing
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            Broths; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1165" xml:space="preserve">Clyſters alſo help leſt the Medicine ſtop in the Guts, and work griping-
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            ly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1166" xml:space="preserve">But it is true, that Bodies abounding with Humors, and fat Bodies,
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            and open Weather, are Preparatives in themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1167" xml:space="preserve">becauſe they make the
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            Humors more fluid: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1168" xml:space="preserve">But let a Phyſician beware how he purge after hard
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            Froſty Weather, and in a lean Body, without Preparation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1169" xml:space="preserve">For the hurt
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            that they may do after Purging, it is cauſed by the lodging of ſome Humors
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            in ill places; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1170" xml:space="preserve">for it is certain, that there be Humors which ſome where
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            placed in the Body, are quiet, and do little hurt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1171" xml:space="preserve">in other places (eſpecially
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            Paſſages) do much miſchief. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1172" xml:space="preserve">Therefore it is good after Purging, to uſe
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            Apozums and Broths, not ſo much opening as thoſe uſed before Purging,
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            but Abſturſive and Mundifying Clyſters alſo are good to conclude with, to
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            draw away the relicks of the Humors that may have deſcended to the lower
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            region of the Body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1174" xml:space="preserve">BLood is ſtanched divers ways: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1175" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, by Aſtringents and Repercuſſive
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-03" xlink:href="note-0052-03a" xml:space="preserve">66.</note>
            Medicines. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1176" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, by drawing of the Spirits and Blood in wards,
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Stanching of
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              Blood.</note>
            which is done by cold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1177" xml:space="preserve">as Iron or a Stone laid to the Neck doth ſtanch the
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            Bleeding of the Noſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1178" xml:space="preserve">alſo it hath been tried, that the Teſticlcs being put
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            into ſharp Vinegar, hath made a ſudden receſs of the Spirits, and ſtanched
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            Blood. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1179" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, by the Receſs of the Blood by Sympathy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1180" xml:space="preserve">ſo it hath been
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            tried, that the part that bleedeth, being thruſt into the body of a Capon,
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            Sheep, new ript and bleeding, hath ſtanched Blood; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1181" xml:space="preserve">the Blood, as it ſeem-
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            eth, ſucking and drawing up, by ſimilitude of ſubſtance, the Blood it meet-
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            eth with, and ſo it ſelf going back. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1182" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, by Cuftom and Fime; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1183" xml:space="preserve">ſo the
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            Prince of Aurange, in his firſthurt by the Spaniſh Boy, could ſinde no means
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            to ſtanch the Blood, either by Medicine or Ligament, but was fain to have
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            the Oriſice of the Wound ſtopped by Mens Thumbs, ſucceeding one an-
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            other for the ſpace at the leaſt of two days; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1184" xml:space="preserve">and at the laſt the Blood by
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            cuſtom onely retired. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1185" xml:space="preserve">There is a fifth way alſo in uſe, to let Blood in an ad-
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            verſe part for a Revulſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1187" xml:space="preserve">IT helpeth, both in Medicine and Aliment, to change and not to continne
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            the ſame Medicine and Aliment ſtill. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1188" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Nature by con-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-06" xlink:href="note-0052-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Change of A-
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              liments and
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              Medicines.</note>
            tinualuſe of anything, groweth to a ſatiety and dulneſs, either of Appetite
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            or Working. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1189" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee that Aſſuetude of things hurtful, doth make
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            them leeſe their force to hurt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1190" xml:space="preserve">As Poyſon, which with uſe ſome have brought
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            themſelves to brook. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1191" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is no marvel, though things help-
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            ful by cuſtom, leeſe their force to help, I count intermiſſion almoſt the
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            ſame thing with change; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1192" xml:space="preserve">for that, that hath been intermitted, is after a ſort
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            new.</s>
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