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

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[61.] The Operation upon the Juices of the Body. 4. The Hiſtory.
[62.] The Operation upon the Bowels for their Extruſion of Aliment. 5. The Hiſtory.
[63.] The Operation upon the Outward Parts for their Attraction of Aliment. 6. The Hiſtory.
[64.] The Operation upon the Aliment it ſelf for the Inſinuation thereof. 7. The Hiſtory.
[65.] The Operation upon the laſt Act of Aſsimilation. 8.
[66.] The Operation upon the Inteneration of that which begins to be Arefied, or the Malaciſſation of the Body. 9.
[67.] The Hiſtory.
[68.] The Operation upon the Purging away of old Juice, and Sup-plying of new Juice; or of Renovation by Turns. 10. The Hiſtory.
[69.] The Porches of Death.
[70.] The Hiſtory.
[71.] The Differences of Youth and Old Age.
[72.] Moveable Canons of the Duration of Life and Form of Death. Canon I.
[73.] The Explication.
[74.] Canon II.
[75.] The Explication.
[76.] Canon III.
[77.] The Explication.
[78.] Canon IV.
[79.] The Explication.
[80.] Canon V.
[81.] The Explication.
[82.] Canon VI.
[83.] The Explication.
[84.] Canon VII.
[85.] The Explication.
[86.] Canon VIII.
[87.] The Explicætion.
[88.] Canon IX.
[89.] The Explication.
[90.] Canon X.
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            ſo a great ſecret of Preſervation of Bodies from change; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1538" xml:space="preserve">for if you can
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            prohibit, that they neither turn into Air, becauſe no Air cometh to them,
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            nor go into the Bodies Adjacent, becauſe they are utterly Heterogeneal, nor
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            make a round and circulation within themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1539" xml:space="preserve">they will never change,
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            though they be in their Nature never ſo periſhable or mutable. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1540" xml:space="preserve">We ſee how
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            Flies and Spiders, and the like, get a Sepulchre in Amber, more durable than
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            the Monument and Embalming of the Body of any King. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1541" xml:space="preserve">And Iconceive the
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            like will be of Bodies put into Quick-ſilver. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1542" xml:space="preserve">But then they muſt be but thin, as
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            a leaf or a peece of Paper or Parchment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1543" xml:space="preserve">for if they have a greater craſſi-
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            tude, they will alter in their own Body, though they ſpend not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1544" xml:space="preserve">But of this,
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            we ſhall ſpeak more when we handle the Title of Conſervation of Bodies.</s>
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