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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3374" xml:space="preserve">The ſirſt Means of prohibiting or checking Putrefaction is cold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3375" xml:space="preserve">for ſo
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            we ſee that Meat and Drink will laſt longer, unputrified, or unſowred, in
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            Winter, than in Summer: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3376" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee that Flowers, and Fruits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3377" xml:space="preserve">put in
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            conſervatories of Snow, keep freſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3378" xml:space="preserve">And this worketh by the Detention of
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            the Spirits, and conſtipation of the Tangible parts.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3379" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3380" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is Aſtriction: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3381" xml:space="preserve">For Aſtriction prohibiteth Diſſolution; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3382" xml:space="preserve">as We
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            ſee (generally) in Medicines, whereof ſuch as are Aſtringents do inhibit Putre-
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            faction: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3383" xml:space="preserve">And by the ſame reaſon of Aſtringency, ſome ſmall quantity of Oyl
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            of Vitriol, will keep fro
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            ſh water long from putrifying. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3384" xml:space="preserve">And this Aſtriction
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            is in aſubſtance that hath a virtual cold, and it worketh (partly) by the ſame
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            means that cold doth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3386" xml:space="preserve">The third is, The e
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            xc
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            luding of the Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3387" xml:space="preserve">and again, the expoſing to the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-03" xlink:href="note-0109-03a" xml:space="preserve">343.</note>
            Air: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3388" xml:space="preserve">For theſe contraries, (as it cometh often to paſs) work the ſame
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            effect, according to the nature of the Subject matter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3389" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee, that
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            Beer or Wine in Bottles cloſe ſtopped, laſt long; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3390" xml:space="preserve">that the Garners under
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            Ground keep Corn longer, than thoſe above Ground; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3391" xml:space="preserve">and that Fruit
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            cloſed in Wax, keepeth freſh: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3392" xml:space="preserve">And likewiſe, Bodies put in Honey, and
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            Flower, keep more freſh: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3393" xml:space="preserve">And Liquors, Drinks, and Juyces, with a little
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            Oyl caſt on the top, keep ſreſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3394" xml:space="preserve">Contrari wiſe, we ſee that Cloath and Ap-
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            parel, not aired, do breed Moaths and Mould; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3395" xml:space="preserve">and the Diverſity is, that
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            in Bodies that need Detention of Spirits, the Excluſion of the Air doth
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            good; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3396" xml:space="preserve">as in Drinks, and Corn: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3397" xml:space="preserve">But in Bodies that need Emiſſion of Spirits,
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            to diſcharge ſome of the ſuperfluous moiſture, it doth hurt, for they require
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            airing.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3399" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is Motion, and Stirring; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3400" xml:space="preserve">for Putrefaction asketh Reſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3401" xml:space="preserve">For
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-04" xlink:href="note-0109-04a" xml:space="preserve">344.</note>
            the ſubtil Motion which Putrefaction requireth, is diſturbed by any Agi-
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            tation, and all Local Motion keepeth Bodies integral, and their parts
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            together: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3402" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee, that turning over of Corn in a Garner, or Let-
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            ting it run like an Hour-Glaſs, from an upper Room into a lower, doth
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            keep it ſweet: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3403" xml:space="preserve">And running Waters putrifie not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3404" xml:space="preserve">and in Mens Bodies,
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            exerciſe hindreth Putrefaction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3405" xml:space="preserve">and contrary wiſe Reſt, and want of Mo-
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            tion or ſtoppings (whereby the running of Humors, or the Motion of
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            Perſpiration, is ſtayed) further Putrefaction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3406" xml:space="preserve">as we partly touched a little
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            before.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3408" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is, The Breathing ſorth of the Adventitious Moiſture in
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-05" xlink:href="note-0109-05a" xml:space="preserve">345.</note>
            Bodies, for as wetting doth haſten Putrefaction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3409" xml:space="preserve">ſo convenient drying
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            (whereby the more Radical Moiſture is onely kept in) putteth back Putre-
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            foction: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3410" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee that Herbs and Flowers, if they be dried in the ſhade, or
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            dried in the hot Sun, for a ſmall time keep beſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3411" xml:space="preserve">For the Emiſſion of the
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            looſe and adventitious Moiſture, doth betray the Radical Moiſture, and car-
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            ryeth it out for company.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3413" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth is, The ſtrengthning of the Spirits of Bodies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3414" xml:space="preserve">for as a great
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-06" xlink:href="note-0109-06a" xml:space="preserve">346.</note>
            heat keepeth Bodies from Putrefaction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3415" xml:space="preserve">but a tepide heat enclineth them to
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            Putrefaction: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3416" xml:space="preserve">So a ſtrong Spirit like wiſe preſerveth, and a weak or faint
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            Spirit diſpoſeth to corruption. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3417" xml:space="preserve">So we finde, that Salt-water corrupteth not
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            ſo ſoon as freſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3418" xml:space="preserve">and ſalting of Oyſters, and powdring of Meat, keepeth
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            them from Putrefaction. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3419" xml:space="preserve">It would be tryed alſo, whether Chalk, put in-
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            to Water, or Drink, doth not preſerve it from Putrifying, or ſpeedy Sour-
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            ing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3420" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee that Strong-Beer will laſt longer than ſmall, and all things, that
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            are hot and aromatical, do help to preſerve Liquors, or Powders, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3421" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3422" xml:space="preserve">which
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            they do, as well by ſtrengthning the Spirits, as by ſoaking out the looſe
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            Moiſture.</s>
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