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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3276" xml:space="preserve">GOld hath theſe Natures: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3277" xml:space="preserve">Greatneſs of VVeight, Cloſeneſs of Parts,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-01" xlink:href="note-0107-01a" xml:space="preserve">328.</note>
            Fixation, Pliantneſs or Softneſs, Immunity from Ruſt, Colour or
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-02" xlink:href="note-0107-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Nature of
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              Gold.</note>
            Tincture of Yellow. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3278" xml:space="preserve">Therefore the ſ
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            ure way (though moſt about) to
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            make GOld, is to know the cauſes of the ſeveral Natures before rehearſed,
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            and the Axioms concerning the ſame. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3279" xml:space="preserve">For if a Man can make a Metal
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            that hath all theſe Properties, let Men diſpute, whether it be Gold,
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            or no?</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3281" xml:space="preserve">THe Enducing and Accelerating of Putrefaction, is a ſubject of avery
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-03" xlink:href="note-0107-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Enducing and
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              Accelerating
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              of Putrefacti-
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              on.</note>
            Univerſal Enquiry. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3282" xml:space="preserve">For Corruption is a Reciprocal to Generation;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3283" xml:space="preserve">and they two are as Natures to Terms or Boundaties; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3284" xml:space="preserve">and the Guides to Life
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            and Death, Putrefaction is the VVork of the Spirits of Bodies, which ever
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            are unquiet to get forth and congregate with the Air, and to enjoy the
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            Sun-Beams. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3285" xml:space="preserve">The getting forth, or ſpreding of the Spirits, (which is a
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            degree of getting forth) have five differing operations. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3286" xml:space="preserve">If the Spirits be
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            detained within the Body, and move more violently, there followeth Colli-
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            quation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3287" xml:space="preserve">as in Metals, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3288" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3289" xml:space="preserve">If more mildely, there followeth Digeſtion or
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            Maturation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3290" xml:space="preserve">as in Drinks and Fruits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3291" xml:space="preserve">If the Spirits be not meetly detained,
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            but Protrude a little, and that Motion be conſuſed, and inordinate, there
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            followeth Putrefaction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3292" xml:space="preserve">which ever diſſolveth the Conſiſtence of the Body
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            into much inequality; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3293" xml:space="preserve">as in Fleſh, Rotten Fruits, Shining VVood, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3294" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
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            and alſo in the Ruſt of Metals. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3296" xml:space="preserve">But if that Motion be in a certain order,
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            there followeth Vivification and Figuration; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3297" xml:space="preserve">as both in Living Creatures
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            bred of Putrefaction, and in Living Creatures perfect. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3298" xml:space="preserve">But if the Spirits
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            iſſue out of the Body, there followeth Deſiccation, Induration, Conſump-
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            tion, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3299" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3300" xml:space="preserve">As in Brick, evaporation of Bodies Liquid, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3301" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3303" xml:space="preserve">The Means to enduce and accelerate Putreſaction, are, Firſt, By add-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-04" xlink:href="note-0107-04a" xml:space="preserve">329.</note>
            ing ſome crude or watry moiſture; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3304" xml:space="preserve">as in VVetting of any Fleſh, Fruit,
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            Wood, with Water, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3305" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3306" xml:space="preserve">For contrariwiſe, Unctuous and Oyly Subſtances
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            preſerve.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3308" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, By Invitation or Excitation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3309" xml:space="preserve">as when a rotten Apple
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-05" xlink:href="note-0107-05a" xml:space="preserve">330.</note>
            lieth cloſe to another Apple that is ſound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3310" xml:space="preserve">or when Dung (which is a ſub-
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            ſtance already putrified) is added to other Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3311" xml:space="preserve">And this is alſo notably
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            ſeen in Church-yards, where they bury much; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3312" xml:space="preserve">where the Earth will con-
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            ſume the Corps, in far ſhorter time than other Earth will.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3314" xml:space="preserve">The third is, By Cloſeneſs and Stopping, which detaineth the Spirits
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-06" xlink:href="note-0107-06a" xml:space="preserve">331.</note>
            in Priſon, more then they would, and thereby irritateth them to ſeek iſſue;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3315" xml:space="preserve">as in Corn and Cloaths which wax muſty; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3316" xml:space="preserve">and therefore open Air (which
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            they call Aer perflabilis) doth preſerve: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3317" xml:space="preserve">And this doth appear more evident-
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            ly in Agues, which come (moſt of them) of obſtructions and penning the
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            Humors, which thereupon Putrifie.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3319" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is, By Solution of Continuity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3320" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee an Apple will rot
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-07" xlink:href="note-0107-07a" xml:space="preserve">332.</note>
            ſooner, if it be cut or pierced, and ſo will Wood, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3321" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3322" xml:space="preserve">And ſo the Fleſh of
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            Creatures alive, where they have received any wound.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3324" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is, Either by the Exhaling, or by the driving back of the prin-
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            cipal Spirits, which preſerve the conſiſtence of the Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3325" xml:space="preserve">ſo that when their
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            Government is diſſolved every partreturneth to his Nature, or Homogeny.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3326" xml:space="preserve">And this appeareth in Urine and Blood, when they cool and thereby
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            break. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3327" xml:space="preserve">It appeareth alſo in the Gangreen or Mortification of Fleſh,
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            either by Opiates, or by Intenſe Colds. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3328" xml:space="preserve">I conceive alſo, the ſame effect</s>
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