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

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[61.] The Operation upon the Juices of the Body. 4. The Hiſtory.
[62.] The Operation upon the Bowels for their Extruſion of Aliment. 5. The Hiſtory.
[63.] The Operation upon the Outward Parts for their Attraction of Aliment. 6. The Hiſtory.
[64.] The Operation upon the Aliment it ſelf for the Inſinuation thereof. 7. The Hiſtory.
[65.] The Operation upon the laſt Act of Aſsimilation. 8.
[66.] The Operation upon the Inteneration of that which begins to be Arefied, or the Malaciſſation of the Body. 9.
[67.] The Hiſtory.
[68.] The Operation upon the Purging away of old Juice, and Sup-plying of new Juice; or of Renovation by Turns. 10. The Hiſtory.
[69.] The Porches of Death.
[70.] The Hiſtory.
[71.] The Differences of Youth and Old Age.
[72.] Moveable Canons of the Duration of Life and Form of Death. Canon I.
[73.] The Explication.
[74.] Canon II.
[75.] The Explication.
[76.] Canon III.
[77.] The Explication.
[78.] Canon IV.
[79.] The Explication.
[80.] Canon V.
[81.] The Explication.
[82.] Canon VI.
[83.] The Explication.
[84.] Canon VII.
[85.] The Explication.
[86.] Canon VIII.
[87.] The Explicætion.
[88.] Canon IX.
[89.] The Explication.
[90.] Canon X.
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head98" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the laſt Act of Aſsimilation. 8.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11482" xml:space="preserve">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: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11483" xml:space="preserve">and the thing it ſelf ra-
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            ther needs Explication, than any various Rules.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11485" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that all bodies are endued with ſome deſire of Aſſimilating thoſe things
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-01" xlink:href="note-0326-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            which are next them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11486" xml:space="preserve">This the rare and pneumatical bodies, as Flame, Spirit, Air,
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            perform generouſly and with alacrity: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11487" xml:space="preserve">on the contrary, thoſe that carry a groſs and
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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.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11489" xml:space="preserve">Again, it is certain that the deſire of aſſimilating being bound, as we ſaid, in a Groſs
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-02" xlink:href="note-0326-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
            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: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11490" xml:space="preserve">which is the onely cauſe why Inanimates aſſimi-
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            late not, and Animates aſſimilate.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11492" xml:space="preserve">This alſo is certain, that the harder the Conſiſtence of the body is, the more doth
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-03" xlink:href="note-0326-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            that body ſtand in need of a greater heat to prick forward the aſſimilation: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11493" xml:space="preserve">which falls
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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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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11494" xml:space="preserve">and therefore either the obſtinacy of their parts is to be ſoftned, or their heat increaſed. </s>
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11496" xml:space="preserve">For the other, touching the increaſing of the
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            heat, we will now deliver a ſingle precept, after we have firft aſſumed this Axiom.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11498" xml:space="preserve">The Act of Aſſimilation (which, as we ſaid, is excited by the heat circumfuſed) is
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-04" xlink:href="note-0326-04a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
            a motion exceeding accurate, ſubtile, and in little; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11499" xml:space="preserve">now all ſuch motions do then
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            come to their vigour, when the local Motion wholly ceaſeth which diſturbeth it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11500" xml:space="preserve">For
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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; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11501" xml:space="preserve">neither will any Putrefaction proceed in Water or mixt Bodies, if
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            the ſame be in continual Local Motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11502" xml:space="preserve">So then, from this Aſſumption we will conclude
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            this for the preſent Inquiſition.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11504" xml:space="preserve">The Act it ſelf of Aſſimilation is chiefly accompliſhed in Sleep and Reſt, eſpecially
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            towards the morning, the diſtribution being finiſhed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11505" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we have nothing
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            elſe to adviſe, but that men keep themſelves hot in their ſleep; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11506" xml:space="preserve">and further, that to wards
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11507" xml:space="preserve">And touching the laſt Act of Aſſimilation
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            thus much.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head99" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Inteneration of that which begins to
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          be Arefied, or the Malaciſſation of the Body. 9.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11509" xml:space="preserve">VVE have inquired formerly touching the Inteneration from within, which is done by
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11510" xml:space="preserve">Now we are to inquire touching
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            that Inteneration which is from without, and is effected, as it were, ſuddenly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11511" xml:space="preserve">or touching
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            the Malaciſſation and Suppling of the Body.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head100" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11513" xml:space="preserve">IN the Fable of reſtoring Peli
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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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11514" xml:space="preserve">There may, perhaps, ſome boiling be required to this matter, but the cutting into pieces
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            is not needful.</s>
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