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

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            Birds, and Horſes, by age or ſcars, turn white; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1435" xml:space="preserve">and the hoar Hairs of
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            Men, come by the ſame reaſon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1436" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in Birds, it is very likely,
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            that the Feathers that come firſt, will be many times of divers colours,
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            according to the nature oſ the Birds; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1437" xml:space="preserve">for that the skin is more porous,
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            but when the skin is more ſhut and cloſe, the Feathers will come white.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1438" xml:space="preserve">This is a good Experiment, not onely for the producing of Birds and
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            Beaſts of ſtrange colours, but alſo, for the diſcloſure of the nature of
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            colours themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1439" xml:space="preserve">which of them require a finer poroſity, and which a
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            groſſer.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1441" xml:space="preserve">IT is a work of providence that hath been truly obſerved by ſome; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1442" xml:space="preserve">that
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-01" xlink:href="note-0059-01a" xml:space="preserve">94.</note>
            the Yolk of the Egg conduceth little to the Generation of the Bird, but
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-02" xlink:href="note-0059-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Nouriſhment
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              of Living
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              Creatures be-
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              fore they be
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              brought forth.</note>
            onely to the nouriſhment of the ſame: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1443" xml:space="preserve">For if a Chicken be opened when
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            it is new hatched, you ſhall finde much of the Yolk remaining. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1444" xml:space="preserve">And it is
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            needful, that Birds that are ſhaped without the Females Womb, have in the
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            Egg, as well matter of nouriſhment, as matter of generation for the Body.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1445" xml:space="preserve">For after the Egg is laid, and ſevered from the body of the Hen, it hath no
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            more nouriſhme
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            nt from the Hen, but onely a quickning heat when ſhe
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            ſitteth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1446" xml:space="preserve">But Beaſts and Men need not the matter of nouriſhment within
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            themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1447" xml:space="preserve">becauſe they are ſhaped within the Womb of the Female, and
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            are nouriſhed continually from her body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1449" xml:space="preserve">IT is an inveterate and received opinion, That Cantharides applied to any
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-03" xlink:href="note-0059-03a" xml:space="preserve">95.</note>
            part of the Body, touch the Bladder, and exulcerate it, if they ſtay on
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-04" xlink:href="note-0059-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Sympathy and
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              Antipathy
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              for Medicinal
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              uſe.</note>
            long. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1450" xml:space="preserve">It is like wiſe received, that a kinde of Stone, which they bring out of
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            the Weſt-Indies, hath a peculiar force to move Gravel, and to diſſolve the
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            Stone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1451" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as laid but to the Wreſt, it hath ſo forcibly ſent down
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            Gravel, as Men have been glad to remove it, it was ſo violent.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1453" xml:space="preserve">It is received and confirmed by daily experience, that the Soals of the
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            Feet, have great affinity with the Head, and the Mouth of the Stomack:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1454" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee, Going wetſhod, to thoſe that uſe it not, affecteth both; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1455" xml:space="preserve">Applica-
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            tions of hot Powders to the Feet, attenuate firft, and after dry the Rheume. </s>
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            And therefore a Phyſician that would be my ſtical, preſcribeth for the cure
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            of the Rheume, That a Man ſhould walk continually upon a Camomil-
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            Alley; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1457" xml:space="preserve">meaning, that he ſhould put Camomil within his Socks. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1458" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe,
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            Pigeons bleeding, applied to the Soa
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            ls of the Feet, eaſe the Head; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1459" xml:space="preserve">and So-
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            poriſerous Medicines applied unto them, provoke ſleep.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1461" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth, that as the Feet have a ſympathy with the Head; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1462" xml:space="preserve">ſo the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-06" xlink:href="note-0059-06a" xml:space="preserve">97.</note>
            Wreſts and Hands have a ſympathy with the Heart. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1463" xml:space="preserve">We ſee the affects and
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            Paffions of the Heart, and Spirits, are notably diſcloſed by the Pulſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1464" xml:space="preserve">And
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            it is often tryed, that Juyces of Stock-gilly-flowers, Roſe-campion, Garlick, and
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            other things, applied to the Wreſts, and renewed, have cured long Agues.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1465" xml:space="preserve">And I conceive, that waſhing with certain Liquors the Palms of the Hands,
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            doth much good: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1466" xml:space="preserve">And they do wellin Heats of Agues to hold in the Hands,
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            Eggs of Alablaſter, and Balls of Cryſtal.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1468" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe things we shall ſpeak more, when we handle the Title of Sympathy and
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            Antipathy, in the proper place.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">98.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1470" xml:space="preserve">THe knowledge of Man (hitherto) hath been determined by the view
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-08" xlink:href="note-0059-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Secret Proceſſes
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              of Nature.</note>
            or ſight; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1471" xml:space="preserve">ſo that whatſoever is inviſible, either in reſpect of the fine-
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            neſs of the Body it ſelf, or the ſmallneſs of the Parts, or of the ſubtilty of </s>
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