Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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there are Theriacel Herbs; </
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the Valleys, where no ſuch Herbs are. </
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ſteeped Wines and Beers are very Medici@al, and likewiſe Bread tempered
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with divers powders; </
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they may be made of great uſe for Medicine and Diet, if the Beaſt, Fowl,
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or Fish, be fed with a ſpecial kinde of food, fit for the diſeaſe. </
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gerous thing alſo for ſecret empoyſonments. </
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plied unto Plants, and Herbs, I doubt more, becauſe the nouriſhment of
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them is a more common Juyce; </
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quality until the Plant do aſſimilate it.</
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this kinde (eſpecially ſince many of the Ancients have ſet them down) we
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think good briefly to p@opound the four Means, which they have deviſed of
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making Plants Medicinable. </
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into it the Medicine, as Hellebore, Opium, Scammomy, Triacle &</
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binding it up again. </
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draweth immediately from the Earth, and ſo the nouriſhment is the more
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common and leſs qualified; </
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and there to infuſe the Medicine, it hath the leſs way, and the leſs time to go
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up. </
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wherein the Medicine is infuſed; </
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the Seed (I doubt) will not draw the parts of the matter which have the
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propriety; </
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with Dung, for that the Seed, naturally drawing the moiſture of the Dung,
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may call in withal ſome of the propriety. </
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the Plant oft, with an infuſion of the Medicine. </
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have more force than the reſt, becauſe the Medication is oft renewed,
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whereas the reſt are applied, but at one time; </
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the ſooner vaniſh. </
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to receive thoſe fine Impreſſions; </
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perforation of the Body of the Tree, in ſeveral places, one above the other,
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and the filling of the Holes with Dung mingled with the Medicine. </
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the Watring of thoſe Lumps of Dung, with Squirts of an Infuſion of the
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Medicine in dunged Water, once in three or four days.</
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