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

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[2.] SYLVA SYLVARUM, OR, A Natural Hiſtory, IN TEN CENTURIES. Whereunto is newly added, The Hiſtory Natural and Experimental of LIFE and DEATH, or of the Prolongation of LIFE. Publiſhed after the Authors Death, By William Rawley, Doctorin Divinity, One of His Majeſties Chaplains. Whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry, touch-ing Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. Written by the Right Honorable FRANCIS Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. The Ninth and Last Edition, With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things contained in the Ten Centuries.
[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.
[4.] TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
[5.] TO THE READER
[6.] A TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS. Century I.
[7.] Century II.
[8.] Century III.
[9.] Century IV.
[10.] Century V.
[11.] Century VI.
[12.] Century VII.
[13.] Century VIII.
[14.] Century IX.
[15.] Century X.
[16.] THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. BY WILLIAM RAWLEY. D D. His Lordſhips firſt and laſt Chaplain, and of late his Majeſties Chaplain in Ordinary.
[17.] LONDON, Printed by S. G. & E. G. for William Lee, and are to be ſold at the ſign of the Turks-Head in Fleet ſtreet, over againſt Fetter-Lane, 1670.
[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.
[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,
[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.
[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.
[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.
[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.
[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.
[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.
[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.
[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.
[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.
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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 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>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3780" xml:space="preserve"/>
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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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              <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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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-11" xlink:href="note-0118-11a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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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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