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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3775" xml:space="preserve">There hath been a Tradition, that Pearl, and Coral, Surchois-Stone,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-01" xlink:href="note-0118-01a" xml:space="preserve">380.</note>
            that have loſt their Colours, may be recovered by burying in the Earth;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3776" xml:space="preserve">which is a thing of great profit, if it would ſort: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3777" xml:space="preserve">But upon tryal of ſix
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            weeks Burial, there followed no effect. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3778" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try it in a deep
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            Well, or in a Conſervatory of Snow, where the cold may be more con-
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            ſtringent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3779" xml:space="preserve">and ſo make the Body more united, and thereby more reſplen-
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            dent.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3781" xml:space="preserve">MEns Bodies are heavier and leſs diſpoſed to Motion when Southern
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-02" xlink:href="note-0118-02a" xml:space="preserve">381.</note>
            Winds blow, then when Northern. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3782" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that when the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-03" xlink:href="note-0118-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Affects in
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              Mens Bodies
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              from ſeveral
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              Winds.</note>
            Southern Winds blow, the Humors do (in ſome degree) melt, and wax
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            fluide, and ſo flow into the parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3783" xml:space="preserve">as it is ſeen in Wood, and other Bodies,
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            which when the Southern Winds blow, doſwell. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3784" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the Motion and
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            Activity of the Body conſiſteth chiefly in the ſinews, which, when the
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            Southern Wind bloweth, are more relax.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3785" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3786" xml:space="preserve">IT is commonly ſeen, that more are ſick in the Summer, and more dye in
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-04" xlink:href="note-0118-04a" xml:space="preserve">382.</note>
            the Winter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3787" xml:space="preserve">except it be in Peſtilent Diſeaſes, which commonly reign in
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-05" xlink:href="note-0118-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Winter and
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              Summers Sick-
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              neſſes.</note>
            Summer or Autumn. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3788" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is, becauſe Diſeaſes are bred (indeed)
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            chiefly by Heat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3789" xml:space="preserve">but then they are cured moſt by Sweat and Purge, which
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            in the Summer cometh on, or is provoked more eaſily: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3790" xml:space="preserve">As for Peſtilent
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            Diſeaſes, the Reaſon why moſt dye of them in Summer, is becauſe they are
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            bred moſt in the Summer; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3791" xml:space="preserve">for other wiſe, thoſe that are touched are in moſt
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            danger in the Winter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3793" xml:space="preserve">THe general opinion is, That Years hot and moiſt, are moſt Peſtilent;
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            </s>
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-06" xlink:href="note-0118-06a" xml:space="preserve">383.</note>
            upon the ſuperficial Ground, that Heat and Moiſture cauſe Putrefacti-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-07" xlink:href="note-0118-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Peſtilential
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              Seaſons.</note>
            on. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3795" xml:space="preserve">In England it is found not true; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3796" xml:space="preserve">for, many times, there have been great
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            Plagues in dry years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3797" xml:space="preserve">VVhereof the cauſe may be, for that drought in the
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            Bodies of Iſlanders, habituate to moiſt Airs, doth exaſperate the Humors,
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            and maketh them more apt to Putrifie or Enflame; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3798" xml:space="preserve">beſides, it tainteth the
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            VVaters (commonly) and maketh them leſs wholſome. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3799" xml:space="preserve">And again in
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            Barbary, the Plagues break up in the Summer Moneths, when the VVeather
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            is hot and dry.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3801" xml:space="preserve">MAny Diſeaſes, (both Epidemical and others) break forth at particular
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-08" xlink:href="note-0118-08a" xml:space="preserve">384.</note>
            times. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3802" xml:space="preserve">And the cauſe is falſly imputed to the conſtitution of the Air,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-09" xlink:href="note-0118-09a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching An
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              Error received
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              about Epide-
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              mical Diſeaſes.</note>
            at that time, when they break forth or reign; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3803" xml:space="preserve">whereas it proceedeth (indeed)
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            from a Precedent Sequence, and Series of the Seaſons of the Year: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3804" xml:space="preserve">And
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            therefore Hippocrates, in his Prognoſticks, doth make good obſervations of
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            the Diſeaſes, that enſue upon the Nature of the precedent four Seaſons of
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            the Year.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3806" xml:space="preserve">TRyal hath been made with Earthen Bottles, well ſtopped, hanged in a
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-10" xlink:href="note-0118-10a" xml:space="preserve">385.</note>
            VVell of Twenty Fathom deep, at the leaſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3807" xml:space="preserve">and ſome of the Bottles
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Alteration or
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              Preſervation
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              of Liquors in
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              Wells, or deep
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              Vaults.</note>
            have been let down into the VVater, ſome others have hanged above, with-
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            in about a Fathom of the VVater; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3808" xml:space="preserve">and the Liquors ſo tryed have been, Beer,
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            (not new, but ready for drinking) and VVine, and Milk. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3809" xml:space="preserve">The proof hath
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            been, that both the Beer, and the VVine, (as well within VVater, as above)
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            have not been palled or deaded at all; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3810" xml:space="preserve">but as good, or ſomewhat better
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            than Bottles of the ſame Drinks and ſtaleneſs, kept in a Celler. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3811" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe
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            which did hang above VVater, were apparently the beſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3812" xml:space="preserve">and that Beer </s>
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