3313FRANCIS Lord BACON.
It h ath been deſired;
That ſomething ſhould be ſignified,
touching his Diet; And the Regiment of his Health: Of
which, in regard, of his Univerſal Inſight into Nature, he
may (perhaps,) be to ſome, an Example. For his Diet;
It was rather a plentiful, and liberal, Diet, as his Sto-
mack would bear it, then a Reſtrained; Which he alſo com-
mended in his Book of the Hiſtory of Life and Death. In
his younger years, he was much given to the Finer and Light-
ter ſort of Meats, As of Fowles; and ſuch like: But after-
ward, when he grew more Judicious; He preferred the ſtron-
ger Meats; ſuch as the Shambles afforded; As thoſe Meats,
which bred the more firm and ſutſtantial Juyces of the Bo-
dy, and leſs Diffipable: upon which, be would often make
his Meal; Though he had other Meats, upon the Table. You
may be ſure; He would not neglect that Himſelf, which He ſo
much extolled in his Writings; And that was the Uſe of Ni-
ter: Where eof he took in the Quantity of about three Grains,
in thin warm Broath, every Morning, for thirty years toge-
ther, next before his Death. And for Phyſick, he did, indeed,
live Phyſically, but not miſerably; For be took only a
Maceration of Rhubarb; Infuſed into a Draught of White
Wine, and Beer, mingled together, for the Space of half an
Hour; Once in ſix or ſeven Dayes; Immediately before his
Meal, (whether Dinner, or Supper,) that it might dry, the
Body, leſſe: which (as he ſaid,) did carry away frequently, the
Groſſer Humours of the Body, and not diminiſh, or carry
away, any of the Spirits, as Sweating doth. And this was no
Grievous Thing to take. As for other Phyſick, in an ordinary
way, (whatſoever bath been vulgarly ſpoken;) he took not. His
Receit, for the Gout; which did, constantly, eaſe him of his
Pain, within two Hours, Is already ſet down in the End, of the
Natural Hiſtory.
touching his Diet; And the Regiment of his Health: Of
which, in regard, of his Univerſal Inſight into Nature, he
may (perhaps,) be to ſome, an Example. For his Diet;
It was rather a plentiful, and liberal, Diet, as his Sto-
mack would bear it, then a Reſtrained; Which he alſo com-
mended in his Book of the Hiſtory of Life and Death. In
his younger years, he was much given to the Finer and Light-
ter ſort of Meats, As of Fowles; and ſuch like: But after-
ward, when he grew more Judicious; He preferred the ſtron-
ger Meats; ſuch as the Shambles afforded; As thoſe Meats,
which bred the more firm and ſutſtantial Juyces of the Bo-
dy, and leſs Diffipable: upon which, be would often make
his Meal; Though he had other Meats, upon the Table. You
may be ſure; He would not neglect that Himſelf, which He ſo
much extolled in his Writings; And that was the Uſe of Ni-
ter: Where eof he took in the Quantity of about three Grains,
in thin warm Broath, every Morning, for thirty years toge-
ther, next before his Death. And for Phyſick, he did, indeed,
live Phyſically, but not miſerably; For be took only a
Maceration of Rhubarb; Infuſed into a Draught of White
Wine, and Beer, mingled together, for the Space of half an
Hour; Once in ſix or ſeven Dayes; Immediately before his
Meal, (whether Dinner, or Supper,) that it might dry, the
Body, leſſe: which (as he ſaid,) did carry away frequently, the
Groſſer Humours of the Body, and not diminiſh, or carry
away, any of the Spirits, as Sweating doth. And this was no
Grievous Thing to take. As for other Phyſick, in an ordinary
way, (whatſoever bath been vulgarly ſpoken;) he took not. His
Receit, for the Gout; which did, constantly, eaſe him of his
Pain, within two Hours, Is already ſet down in the End, of the
Natural Hiſtory.
It may ſeem, the Moon, had ſome Principal Place, in the
Figure of his Nativity. For the Moon, was never in her
Paſsion or Eclipſed, but he was ſurprized, with a ſudden Fit, of
Fainting: And that, though he obſerved not, nor took any pre-
vious Knowledge, of the Eclipſe thereof; and aſſoon as the
Eclipſe ceaſed, he was reſtored, to his former ſtrength again.
Figure of his Nativity. For the Moon, was never in her
Paſsion or Eclipſed, but he was ſurprized, with a ſudden Fit, of
Fainting: And that, though he obſerved not, nor took any pre-
vious Knowledge, of the Eclipſe thereof; and aſſoon as the
Eclipſe ceaſed, he was reſtored, to his former ſtrength again.