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

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            Cold, relaxeth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s920" xml:space="preserve">As it is ſeen in Vrine, Blood, Pottage, or the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s921" xml:space="preserve">which, if they
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            be cold, break and diſſolve. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s922" xml:space="preserve">And by this kinde of Relaxation, Fear looſneth
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            the Belly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s923" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the heat retiring in wards to wards the Heart, the Guts,
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            and other parts are relaxed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s924" xml:space="preserve">in the ſame manner as Fear alſo cauſeth trem-
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            bling in the Sinews. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s925" xml:space="preserve">And of this kinde of Purgers are ſome Medicines made
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            of Mercury.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s927" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh cauſe is Abſterſion, which is plainly a ſcouring off, or Inciſion
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            of the more viſcuous humors, and making the humors more fluid, and cutting
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            between them, and the part; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s928" xml:space="preserve">as is found in Nitrous Water, which ſcoureth
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            Linnen-Cloth (ſpeedily) from the foulneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s929" xml:space="preserve">But this Inciſion muſt be by a
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            Sharpneß, without Aſtriction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s930" xml:space="preserve">which we finde in Salt, Wormwood, Oxymel, and
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            the like.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s932" xml:space="preserve">There be Medicines that move Stools, andnot Vrine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s933" xml:space="preserve">ſome other Vrine,
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            and not Stools. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s934" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that Purgeby Stool, are ſuch as enter not at all, or little
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            into the Meſentery Veins; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s935" xml:space="preserve">but either at the firſt, are not digeſtible by the
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            Stomack, and therefore move immediately downwards to the Guts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s936" xml:space="preserve">or elſe
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            are afterwards rejected by the Meſentery Veins, and ſo turn likewiſe down-
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            wards to the Guts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s937" xml:space="preserve">and of theſe two kindes, are moſt Purgers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s938" xml:space="preserve">Butthoſe that
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            move Vrine, are ſuch as are well digeſted of the Stomack, and well received
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            alſo of the Meſentery Veins; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s939" xml:space="preserve">ſo they come as far as the Liver, which ſendeth
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            Vrine to the Bladder, as the Whey of Blood: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s940" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe Medicines, being open-
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            ing and piercing, do fortifie the operation of the Liver, in ſending down
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            the Wheyey part of the Blood to the Reins. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s941" xml:space="preserve">For Medicines Vrinative do not
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            work by rejection and indigeſtion, as Solutive do.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s943" xml:space="preserve">There be divers Medicines, which in greater quantity move Stool, and
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            in ſmaller, Urine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s944" xml:space="preserve">and ſo contrariwiſe, ſome that in greater quantity move
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            Urine, and in ſmaller Stool. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s945" xml:space="preserve">Of the former ſortis Rubarb, and ſome others.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s946" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Rubarb is a Medicine, which the Stomack in a ſmall
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            quantity doth digeſt, and overcome (being not Flatuous nor Loathſome,)
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            and ſo ſendethit to the Meſentery veins; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s947" xml:space="preserve">and ſo being opening, it helpeth down
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            Urine: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s948" xml:space="preserve">But in a greater quantity, the Stomack cannot overcome it, and
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            ſo it goeth to the Guts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s949" xml:space="preserve">Pepper, by ſome of the Ancients, is noted to be of the
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            ſecond ſort; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s950" xml:space="preserve">which being in ſmall quantity, moveth wind in the Stomack
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            or Guts, and ſo expelled by Stool; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s951" xml:space="preserve">but being in greater quantity, diſſipateth
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            the wind, and it ſelf getteth to the Meſentery Veins, and ſo to the Liver and
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            Reins; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s952" xml:space="preserve">where, by Heating and Opening, it ſendeth down Urine more
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            plentifully.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s954" xml:space="preserve">WE have ſpoken of Evacnating of the Body, we will now ſpeak ſome-
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            thing of the filling of it by Reſtoratives in Conſumptions and Emaciating
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0046-05" xlink:href="note-0046-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Meats and
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              Drinks that
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              are moſt nou-
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            Diſeaſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s955" xml:space="preserve">In Vetegables, there is one part that is more nouriſhing than
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            another; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s956" xml:space="preserve">as Grains and Roots nouriſh more than the Leaves, inſomuch as
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            the Order of the Foliatans was put down by the Pope, as finding Leaves un-
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            able to nouriſh Mans Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s957" xml:space="preserve">Whether there be that difference in the
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            Fleſh of Living Creatures, is not well enquired; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s958" xml:space="preserve">as whether Livers, and
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            other Entrails, be not more nouriſhing than the outward Fleſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s959" xml:space="preserve">We finde
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            that amongſt the Romans, a Gooſes Liver was a great delicacy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s960" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch,
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            as they had artificial means to make it fair, and great; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s961" xml:space="preserve">but whether it were
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            more nouriſhing, appeareth not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s962" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that Marrow is more
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            nouriſhing than Fat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s963" xml:space="preserve">And I conceive, that ſome decoction of Bones and
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            Sinews, ſtamped and well ſtrained, would be a very nouriſhing Broth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s964" xml:space="preserve">We
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            finde alſo, that Scotch Skinck (which is a Pottage of ſtrong nouriſhment) </s>
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