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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            deeper; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s624" xml:space="preserve">So that if you infuſe Rubarb for an hour, and cruſh it well, it will
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            purge better, and binde the Body leſs after the purging, than if it ſtood
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            Twenty ſ
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            our hours: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s625" xml:space="preserve">This is tried, but I conceive likewiſe, that by repeat-
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            ing the Infuſion of Rubarb, ſeveral times (as was ſaid of Violets) letting
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            each ſtay in but a ſmall time, you may make it as ſtrong a Purging Medi-
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            cine, as Scammony. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s626" xml:space="preserve">And it is not a ſmall thing won in Phyſick, if you can
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            make Ruharb, and other Medicines that are Benedict, as ſtrong Purgers, as
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            thoſe that are not without ſome malignity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s628" xml:space="preserve">Purging Medicines, for the moſt part, have their Purgative Vertue in a fine
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            Spirit, as appeareth by that they indure not boiling, without much loſs of
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            vertue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s629" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is of good uſe in Phyſick, it you can retain the Pur-
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            ging of Vertue, and take away the unpleaſant taſte of the Purger; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s630" xml:space="preserve">which
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            it is like you may do, by this courſe of infuſing oft with little ſtay. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s631" xml:space="preserve">For it is
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            probable, that the horrible and odious taſte is in the groſſer part.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s633" xml:space="preserve">Generally, the working by Infuſions is gro@s and blind, except you firſt
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            try the iſſuing of the ſeveral parts of the Body, which of them iſſue more
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            ſpeedily, and which more ſlowly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s634" xml:space="preserve">and ſo by apportioning thetime, can
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            take and leave that quality which you deſire. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s635" xml:space="preserve">This to know, there be two
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            ways; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s636" xml:space="preserve">the one to try what long ſtay, and what ſhort ſtay worketh, as hath
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            been ſaid; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s637" xml:space="preserve">the other to try, in order, the ſucceeding Infuſions, of one and
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            the ſame Body, ſucceſſively, in ſeveral Liquors. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s638" xml:space="preserve">As for example, Take
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            Orange-Pills, or Roſemary, or Cinnamon, or what you will; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s639" xml:space="preserve">and let them in-
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            fuſe half an hour in Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s640" xml:space="preserve">then take them out, and infuſe them again in
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            other Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s641" xml:space="preserve">and ſo the third time; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s642" xml:space="preserve">and then taſte and conſider the firſt
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            Water, the ſecond, and the third, and you will finde them differing, not one-
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            ly in ſtrength and weakneſs, but otherwiſe in taſte, or odor; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s643" xml:space="preserve">for it may be
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            the firſt Water will have more of the ſent, as more fragrant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s644" xml:space="preserve">and the ſecond
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            more of the taſte, as more bitter or biting, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s645" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s647" xml:space="preserve">Infuſions in Air (for ſo we may call Odors) have the ſame diverſities with
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            Infuſions in Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s648" xml:space="preserve">in that the ſeveral Odors (which are in one Flower, or
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            other Body) iſſue at ſeveral times, ſome earlier, ſome later: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s649" xml:space="preserve">So we finde,
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            that Violets, Woodbines, Strawberries, yield a pleaſing ſent, that cometh forth
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            firſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s650" xml:space="preserve">but ſoon after an ill ſent quite differing from the former. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s651" xml:space="preserve">Which is
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            cauſed not ſo much by mellowing, as by the late iſſuing of the groſſer
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            Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s653" xml:space="preserve">As we may deſire to extract the fineſt Spirits in ſome caſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s654" xml:space="preserve">ſo we may
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            deſire alſo to diſcharge them (as hurtful) in ſome other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s655" xml:space="preserve">So Wine burnt, by
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            reaſon of the evaporating of the finer Spirit, inflameth leſs, and is beſt in
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            Agues: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s656" xml:space="preserve">Opium leeſeth ſome of his po@ſonous quality, if it be vapored out,
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            mingled with Spirit of Wine, or the like: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s657" xml:space="preserve">Sean leeſeth ſomewhat of his
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            windineſs by decocting; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s658" xml:space="preserve">and (generally) ſubtile or windy Spirits are taken
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            off by Incenſion, or Evaporation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s659" xml:space="preserve">And even in Infuſions in things that are
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            of too high a ſpirit, you were better pour off the firſt Infuſion, after a ſmall
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            time, and uſe the latter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s661" xml:space="preserve">BUbbles are in the form of an Hemiſphere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s662" xml:space="preserve">Air within, and a little Skin
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            of Water without: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s663" xml:space="preserve">And it ſeemeth ſomewhat ſtrange, that the Air
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Appetite of
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              Continnation
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              in Liquids.</note>
            ſhould riſe ſo ſwiftly, while it is in the Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s664" xml:space="preserve">and when it cometh to the
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            top, ſhould be ſtaid by ſo weak a cover, as that of the Bubble is. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s665" xml:space="preserve">But as
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            for the ſwift aſcent of the Air, while it is under the Water, that is a
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            motion of Percuſſion ſrom the Water, which it ſelf deſcending, driveth
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            up the Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s666" xml:space="preserve">and no motion of Levity in the Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s667" xml:space="preserve">And this </s>
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