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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1115" xml:space="preserve">THere is a ſecret way of Cure, unpractiſed by Aſſuetude of that which
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            in itſelf hurteth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1116" xml:space="preserve">Poyſons have been made by ſome Familiar, as hath
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-02" xlink:href="note-0051-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Cure by Cu-
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              ſtom.</note>
            been ſaid. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1117" xml:space="preserve">Ordinary Keepers of the ſick of the Plague, are ſeldom infected.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1118" xml:space="preserve">Enduring of Tortures, by cuſtom hath been made more eaſie: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1119" xml:space="preserve">The brook-
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            ing of enormous quantity of Meats, and ſo of Wine, or ſtrong drink, hath
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            been by cuſtom made to be without Surfeit or Drunkenneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1120" xml:space="preserve">And generally
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            Diſeaſes that are Chronical, as Coughs, Phihiſicks, ſome kinde of Palſies,
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            Lunacies, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1121" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1122" xml:space="preserve">are moſt dangerous at the firſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1123" xml:space="preserve">Therefore a wiſe Phyſitian will
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            conſider, whcther a Diſeaſe be incurable, or whether the juſt cure of it be
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            not full of peril; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1124" xml:space="preserve">and if he finde it to be ſuch, let him reſort to Palliation,
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            and alleviate the Symptom without buſying himſelf too much with the
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            perfect cure: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1125" xml:space="preserve">And many times (if the Patient be indecd patient) that courſe
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            will exceed all expectation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1126" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe the Patient himſelf may ſtrive, by
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            little and little to overcome the Symptom in the Exacerbation, and ſo by
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            time turn ſuffering into Nature.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1128" xml:space="preserve">DIvers Diſeaſes, eſpecially Chronical, (ſuch as Quartan Agues) are ſome-
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            times cured by Surfeit and Exceſſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1129" xml:space="preserve">as exceſs of Meat, exceſs of Drink,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-04" xlink:href="note-0051-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Cure by Ex-
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              ceß.</note>
            extraordinary Faſting, extraordinary ſtirring, or Laſſitude, and the like.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1130" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Diſeaſes of continuance, get an adventitious ſtrength
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            from Cultom, beſides their material cauſe from the Humors: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1131" xml:space="preserve">So that the
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            breaking of the Cuſtom doth leave them onely to their firſt cauſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1132" xml:space="preserve">which,
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            if it be any thing weak, will fall off. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1133" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, ſuch Exceſſes do excite and ſpur
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            Nature, which thereupon riſeth more forcibly againſt the Diſeaſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1135" xml:space="preserve">THere is in the Body of Man, a great conſentin the Motion of the ſeveral
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            parts: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1136" xml:space="preserve">We ſee it is Childrens ſport, to prove whether they can rub up-
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Cure by Mo-
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              tion of Conſent.</note>
            on their Breſt with one hand, and pat upon their Forehead with another;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1137" xml:space="preserve">and ſtraight ways they ſhall ſometimes rub with both hands, or pat with
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            both hands. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1138" xml:space="preserve">We ſee, that when the Spirits that come to the Noſtrils, ex-
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            pel a bad ſent, the Stomack is ready to expel by vomit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1139" xml:space="preserve">We finde that in
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            Conſumptions of the Lungs, when Nature cannotexpel by Cough, Men fall into
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            Fluxes of the Belly, and then they die. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1140" xml:space="preserve">So in Peſtilent Diſeaſes, if they can-
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            not be expelled by Sweat, they fall like wiſe into Looſneß, and that is common-
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            ly Mortal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1141" xml:space="preserve">Therefore Phyſitians ſhould ingeniouſly contrive, how by Mo-
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            tions that are in their power, they may excite inward Motions that are not
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            in their power, by conſent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1142" xml:space="preserve">as by the ſtench of Feathers, or the like, they
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            cure the riſing of the Mother.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1144" xml:space="preserve">HIppocrates Aphoriſm, in Morbis Minus, is a good profound Aphoriſm. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1145" xml:space="preserve">It im-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-07" xlink:href="note-0051-07a" xml:space="preserve">64.</note>
            porteth, that Diſeaſes contrary to the Complexion, Age, Sex, Seaſon of
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Cure of Diſ-
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              caſes which are
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              contrary to
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              Prediſpoſition.</note>
            the year, Diet, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1146" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1147" xml:space="preserve">are more dangerous than thoſe that are concurrent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1148" xml:space="preserve">A
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            Man would think it ſhould be otherwiſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1149" xml:space="preserve">For that when the Accident of
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            Sickneſs, and the Natural diſpoſition, do ſecond the one the other; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1150" xml:space="preserve">the
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            Diſeaſe ſhould be more forcible. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1151" xml:space="preserve">And (ſo no doubt) it is, if you ſuppoſe like
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            quantity of Matter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1152" xml:space="preserve">But that which maketh good the Aphoriſm, is, becauſe
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            ſuch Diſeaſes do ſhew a greater collection of Matter, by that they are able
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            to overcome thoſe Natural inclinations to the contrary. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1153" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in
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            Diſeaſes of that kinde, let the Phyſitian apply him ſelf more to Purgation, than
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            to Alteration; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1154" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the offence is in the quantity, and the qualities are
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            rectified of themſelves.</s>
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