Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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ing of enormous quantity of Meats, and ſo of Wine, or ſtrong drink, hath
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Diſeaſes that are Chronical, as Coughs, Phihiſicks, ſome kinde of Palſies,
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extraordinary Faſting, extraordinary ſtirring, or Laſſitude, and the like.
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on their Breſt with one hand, and pat upon their Forehead with another;
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porteth, that Diſeaſes contrary to the Complexion, Age, Sex, Seaſon of
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Sickneſs, and the Natural diſpoſition, do ſecond the one the other; </
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ſuch Diſeaſes do ſhew a greater collection of Matter, by that they are able
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