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

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            Surfeits many times turn to Purges, both upwards and down wards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s872" xml:space="preserve">There-
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            fore we ſee generally, that the working of Purging Medicines cometh two
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            or three hours after the Medicines taken: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s873" xml:space="preserve">For that the Stomack firſt maketh a
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            proof, whether it can concoct them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s874" xml:space="preserve">And the like happeneth after Surfeits,
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            or Milk in too great quantity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s876" xml:space="preserve">A ſecond cauſe is Mordication of the Orifices of the Parts, eſpecially of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0045-01" xlink:href="note-0045-01a" xml:space="preserve">37.</note>
            the Meſentery Veins; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s877" xml:space="preserve">as it is ſeen, that Salt, or any ſuch thing that is ſharp and
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            biting, put into the Fundament, doth provoke the part to expel, and Muſtard
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            provoketh ſneezing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s878" xml:space="preserve">and any ſharp thing to the eyes provoketh tears. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s879" xml:space="preserve">And
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            therefore weſee, that almoſt all Purgers have akinde of twitching and vel-
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            lication, beſides the griping which cometh of wind. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s880" xml:space="preserve">And if this Mordi-
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            cation be in an over-high degree, it is little better than the Coroſion of Poyſon;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s881" xml:space="preserve">and it cometh to paſs ſometimes in Antimony, eſpecially if it be given to
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            Bodies not repleat with humors; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s882" xml:space="preserve">for where humors abound, the humors
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            ſave the parts.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s884" xml:space="preserve">The third cauſe is Attraction: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s885" xml:space="preserve">For I do not deny, but that Purging Me-
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            dicines have in them a direct force of Attraction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s886" xml:space="preserve">as Drawing-Plaiſters have
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            in Surgery: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s887" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee Sage, or Bittony bruiſed, SneeZing-powder, and other pow-
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            ders or Liquors (which the Phyſitians call Errhines) put into the Noſe, draw
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            Flegm and Water from the Head; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s888" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it is in Apophlegmatiſms and Gar-
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            gariſms that draw the Rheume down by the Palat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s889" xml:space="preserve">And by this vertue, no
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            doubt, ſome Purgers draw more one humor, and ſome another, according to
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            the opinion received: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s890" xml:space="preserve">As Rubarb draweth Choler, Sean Melancholy, Aga-
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            rack Flegm, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s891" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s892" xml:space="preserve">but yet (more orleſs) they draw promiſcuouſly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s893" xml:space="preserve">And note
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            alſo, that beſides Sympathy between the Purger and the Humor, there is alſo
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            another cauſe, why ſome Medicines draw ſome humor more than another;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s894" xml:space="preserve">and it is, for that ſome Medicines work quicker than others; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s895" xml:space="preserve">and they that
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            draw quick, draw onely the lighter, and more fluid humors; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s896" xml:space="preserve">they that draw
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            ſlow, work upon the more tough, and viſcuous humors. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s897" xml:space="preserve">And therefore,
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            men muſt be ware how they take Rubarb, and the like, alone, familiarly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s898" xml:space="preserve">for
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            it taketh onely the lighteſt part of the humor away, and leaveth the Maſs
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            of Humors more obſtinate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s899" xml:space="preserve">And the like may be ſaid of Worm-wood, which
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            is ſo much magniſied.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s901" xml:space="preserve">The fourth cauſe is Flatuoſity: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s902" xml:space="preserve">For wind ſtirred, moveth to expel; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s903" xml:space="preserve">and
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            we finde that (in effect) all Purgers have in them a raw Spirit or Wind, which
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            is the principal cauſe of Tortion in the Stomack and Belly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s904" xml:space="preserve">And therefore
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            Purgers leeſe (moſt of them) the virtue, by decoction upon the fire; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s905" xml:space="preserve">and for
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            that cauſe are chiefly given in Infuſion, Juyce, or Powder.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s907" xml:space="preserve">The fifth cauſe is Compreßion or Cruſhing: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s908" xml:space="preserve">As when Water is cruſhed
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            out of a Spunge: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s909" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee that taking cold moveth looſneſs by contraction
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            of the Skin, and outward parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s910" xml:space="preserve">and ſo doth Cold like wiſe cauſe Rheums
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            and Defluctions from the Head, and ſome Aſtringent Plaiſters cruſh out pu-
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            rulent Matter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s911" xml:space="preserve">This kinde of operation is not found in many Medicines:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s912" xml:space="preserve">Mirabolanes have it, and it may be the Barks of Peaches; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s913" xml:space="preserve">for this vertue re-
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            quireth an Aſtriction, but ſuch an Aſtriction, as is not grateſul to the Body
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            (for a pleaſing Aſtriction doth rather binde in the humors, than ex-
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            pel them:) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s914" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſuch Aſtriction is found in things of an harriſh
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            taſt e.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s916" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth cauſe is Lubrefaction and Relaxation: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s917" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in Medicines
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            Emollient, ſuch as are Milk, Honey, Mallows, Lettuce, Mercurial, Pellitery of
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            the Wall, and others. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s918" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo a ſecret vertue of Relaxation of Cold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s919" xml:space="preserve">for
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            the heat of the Body bindeth the Parts and Humors together, </s>
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