Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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The Hiſtory of Life and Death.
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">TOuching the laſt A ct of Aſſimilation (unto which the three Operations immediately
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preceeding chiefly tend) our advice ſhall be brief and ſingle: </
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ther needs Explication, than any various Rules.</
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which are next them. </
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perform generouſly and with alacrity: </
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tangible bulk about them, do but weakly, in regard that the deſire of aſſimilating other
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things is boundin by a ſtronger deſire of Reſt, and containing themſelves from Motion.</
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body, and made uneffectual, is ſome what freed and ſtirred up by the heat and neighbour-
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ing ſpirit, ſo that it is then actuated: </
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late not, and Animates aſſimilate.</
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">This alſo is certain, that the harder the Conſiſtence of the body is, the more doth
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that body ſtand in need of a greater heat to prick forward the aſſimilation: </
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out ill for old men, becauſe in them the parts are more obſtinate, and the heat weaker;
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And as touching the Malaciſſation or mollifying of the members, we ſhall ſpeak after ward,
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having alſo formerly propounded many things which pertain to the prohibiting and
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preventing of this kind of hardneſs. </
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heat, we will now deliver a ſingle precept, after we have firft aſſumed this Axiom.</
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a motion exceeding accurate, ſubtile, and in little; </
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come to their vigour, when the local Motion wholly ceaſeth which diſturbeth it. </
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the Motion of Separation into homogeneal par ts, which is in Milk, that the Cream ſhould
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ſwim above, and the Whey ſink to the bottom, will never work, if the Milk benever
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ſo little agitated; </
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the ſame be in continual Local Motion. </
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this for the preſent Inquiſition.</
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towards the morning, the diſtribution being finiſhed. </
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elſe to adviſe, but that men keep themſelves hot in their ſleep; </
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the morning there be uſed ſome Anointing, or ſhirt tincted with Oil, ſuch as may gently
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ſtir up heat, and after that to fall aſleep again. </
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thus much.</
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be Arefied, or the Malaciſſation of the Body. 9.</
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many windings and Circuits, as well of Alimentation as of Detaining the Spirit
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from iſſuing forth, and therefore is accompliſhed ſlowly. </
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that Inteneration which is from without, and is effected, as it were, ſuddenly; </
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the Malaciſſation and Suppling of the Body.</
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as to youth again, Medea, when ſhe feigned to do it
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propounded this way of accompliſhing the ſame, That the Old man’s body ſhould
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be cut into ſeveral pieces, and then boiled in a Cauldron with certain Medicaments.
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is not needful.</
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