Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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Surfeits many times turn to Purges, both upwards and down wards. </
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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: </
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proof, whether it can concoct them. </
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or Milk in too great quantity.</
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the Meſentery Veins; </
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biting, put into the Fundament, doth provoke the part to expel, and Muſtard
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provoketh ſneezing; </
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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. </
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cation be in an over-high degree, it is little better than the Coroſion of Poyſon;
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Bodies not repleat with humors; </
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ſave the parts.</
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dicines have in them a direct force of Attraction; </
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in Surgery: </
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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; </
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gariſms that draw the Rheume down by the Palat. </
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doubt, ſome Purgers draw more one humor, and ſome another, according to
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the opinion received: </
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rack Flegm, &</
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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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draw quick, draw onely the lighter, and more fluid humors; </
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ſlow, work upon the more tough, and viſcuous humors. </
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men muſt be ware how they take Rubarb, and the like, alone, familiarly; </
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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. </
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is ſo much magniſied.</
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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. </
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Purgers leeſe (moſt of them) the virtue, by decoction upon the fire; </
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that cauſe are chiefly given in Infuſion, Juyce, or Powder.</
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out of a Spunge: </
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of the Skin, and outward parts; </
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and Defluctions from the Head, and ſome Aſtringent Plaiſters cruſh out pu-
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rulent Matter. </
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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:) </
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Emollient, ſuch as are Milk, Honey, Mallows, Lettuce, Mercurial, Pellitery of
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the Wall, and others. </
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the heat of the Body bindeth the Parts and Humors together, </
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