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

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            of Metals; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2962" xml:space="preserve">and ſo doth Time, as in the Ruſt of Metals. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2963" xml:space="preserve">But generally Heat
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            doth that in ſmall time, which Age doth in long.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2965" xml:space="preserve">SOme things which paſs the Fire, are ſoft eſt at ſirſt, and by Time grow
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-01" xlink:href="note-0099-01a" xml:space="preserve">295.</note>
            hard, as the Crum of Bread. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2966" xml:space="preserve">Some are harder when they comeſrom the
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Differing Ope-
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              rations of Fire,
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              and Time.</note>
            Fire, and after wards give again, and grow ſoſt as the Cruſt of Bread, Bisker;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2967" xml:space="preserve">Sweet-Meats, Salt, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2968" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2969" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in thoſe things which wax
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            hard with Time, the work of the Fire is a kinde of melting; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2970" xml:space="preserve">and in thoſe
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            that wax ſoſt with Time, (contrariwiſe) the work of the Fire is a kinde
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            of Baking; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2971" xml:space="preserve">and whatſoever the Fire baketh, Time doth in ſome degree
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            diſſolve.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2973" xml:space="preserve">MOtions paſs from one Man to another, not ſo much by exciting Ima-
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            gination as by Invitation, eſpecially iſ there be an Aptneſs or Incli-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-04" xlink:href="note-0099-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Motions by I-
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              mitation.</note>
            nation before. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2974" xml:space="preserve">Therefore Gaping, or Yawning, and Stretching, do paſs
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            from Man to Man; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2975" xml:space="preserve">for that that cauſeth Gaping or Stretching is, when the
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            Spirits are a little Heavy, by any Vapor, or the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2976" xml:space="preserve">For then they ſtrive (as
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            it were) to wring out, and expel that which loadeth them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2977" xml:space="preserve">So Men drowzy
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            and deſirous to ſleep; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2978" xml:space="preserve">or before the ſit of an Ague, do uſe to yawn and
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            ſtretch, and do likewiſe yield a Voice or Sound, which is an Interjection
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            of Expulſion: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2979" xml:space="preserve">So that if another be apt and prepared to do the like, he
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            ſolloweth by the ſight of another. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2980" xml:space="preserve">So the Laughing of another maketh to
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            laugh.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2982" xml:space="preserve">THere be ſome known Diſeaſes that are Infectious, and others that are
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-05" xlink:href="note-0099-05a" xml:space="preserve">297.</note>
            not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2983" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that are inſectious, are ſirſt, Such as are chieſly in the Spi-
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              Solitary,
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              touching In-
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              fectious diſ-
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              eaſes.</note>
            rits, and not ſo much in the Humors, and therefore paſs eaſily from Body to
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            Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2984" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are Peſtilences Lippitudes, and ſuch like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2985" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, ſuch as taint
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            the breath, which we ſee paſſeth manifeſtly from Man to Man, and not in-
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            viſible as the affects of the Spirits do; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2986" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are Conſumptions of the Lungs,
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            &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2987" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2988" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, Such as come forth to the skin, and therefore taint the Air,
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            or the Body adjacent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2989" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially, if they conſiſt in an unctuous ſubſtance,
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            not apt to diſſipate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2990" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are Scabs, and Leproſie. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2991" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, ſuch as are
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            meerly in the Humors, and not in the Spirits, Breath, or Exhalations: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2992" xml:space="preserve">And
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            thereſore they never infect, but by touch onely; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2993" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch a touch alſo, as
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            cometh within the Epidermis, as the venome of the French Pox, and the biting
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            of a Mad-Dog.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2995" xml:space="preserve">MOſt Powders grow more cloſe and coherent by mixture of Water, than
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            by mixture of Oyl, though Oyl be the thicker Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2996" xml:space="preserve">as Meal, &</s>
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Incorporation
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              of Powders
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              and Liqnors.</note>
            The reaſon is the Congruity of Bodies, Which if it be more, maketh aper-
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            ſecter imbibition, and incorporation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2999" xml:space="preserve">which in moſt Powders is more between
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            them and Water, than between them and Oyl: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3000" xml:space="preserve">But Painters colours
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            ground, and aſhes, do better incorporate with Oyl.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3002" xml:space="preserve">MUch Motion and Exerciſe is good for ſome Bodies, and ſitting and
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            leſs motion, ſor others. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3003" xml:space="preserve">If the Body be hot, and void of ſuperſluous
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              Solitary,
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              touching Ex-
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              erciſe of the
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              Body.</note>
            Moiſtures, too much Motion hurteth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3004" xml:space="preserve">and it is an error in Phyſitians, to
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            call too much upon Exerciſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3005" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe, Men ought to beware, that they
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            uſe not Exerciſe, and a ſpare diet, both; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3006" xml:space="preserve">but if much Exerciſe, then a plenti-
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            ſul diet; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3007" xml:space="preserve">and if ſparing diet, then little Exerciſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3008" xml:space="preserve">The Beneſits that come of
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            Exerciſe are. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3009" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that it ſendeth nouriſhment into the parts more forcibly.</s>
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