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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8865" xml:space="preserve">Vide the Experiments 95, 96, and 97. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8866" xml:space="preserve">touching the ſeveral Sympathies and
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            Antipathies for Medicinal uſe.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8868" xml:space="preserve">It is ſaid, that the Guts or Skin of a Woolf being applied to the Belly
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            do cure the Colick. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8869" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that the Woolf is a Beaſt of great Edacity and
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            Digeſtion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8870" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it may be the parts of him comfort the Bowels.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8872" xml:space="preserve">We ſee Scare-crows are ſet up to keep Birds from Corn and Fruit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8873" xml:space="preserve">It is
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-03" xlink:href="note-0244-03a" xml:space="preserve">973.</note>
            reported by ſome, that the Head of a Woolf
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            , whole, dried and hanged up in
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            a Dove-houſe, will ſcare away Vermin, ſuch as are Weaſils, Pole-cats, and the
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            like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8874" xml:space="preserve">It may be the Head of a Dog will do as much; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8875" xml:space="preserve">for thoſe Vermin with
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            us, know Dogs better then Wolves.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8877" xml:space="preserve">The Brains of ſome Creatures, (when their Heads are roſted) taken in
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-04" xlink:href="note-0244-04a" xml:space="preserve">974.</note>
            Wine, are ſaid to ſtrengthen the Memory; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8878" xml:space="preserve">as the Brains of Hares, Brains of
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            Hens, Brains of Deer, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8879" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8880" xml:space="preserve">And it ſeemeth to be incident to the Brains of
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            thoſe Creatures that are fearful.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8882" xml:space="preserve">The Oyntment that Witches uſe, is reported to be made of the Fat of
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            Children digged out of their Graves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8883" xml:space="preserve">of the Juices of Smallage, Woolf-
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            bane, and Cinquefoil, mingled with the Meal of Fine Wheat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8884" xml:space="preserve">But I ſuppoſe,
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            that the Soporiferous Medicines are likeſt to do it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8885" xml:space="preserve">which are Henbane, Hem-
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            lock, Mandrake, Moonſhade, Tobacco, Opium, Saffron, Poplar leaves, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8886" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8888" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by ſome, that the affections of Beaſts when they are in
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            ſtrength, do add ſome virtue unto inanimate things: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8889" xml:space="preserve">As that the Skin of a
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            Sheep devoured by a Woolf moveth itching; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8890" xml:space="preserve">that a ſtone bitten by a Dog in
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            anger, being thrown at him, drunk in Powder provoketh Choler.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8892" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that the diet of Women with Childe, doth work
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            much upon the Infant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8893" xml:space="preserve">As if the Mother eat Quinces much, and Coriander-
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            feed (the nature of both which, is to repreſs and ftay vapors that aſcend to
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            the Brain) it will make the Childe ingenious: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8894" xml:space="preserve">And on the contrary ſide, if
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            the Mother eat (much) Onions or Beans, or ſuch vaporous food, or drink
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            Wine or ſtrong drink immoderately, or faſt much, or be given to much
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            muſing, (all which ſend or draw vapors to the Head) it indangereth the
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            Childe to become Lunatick, or of imperfect memory: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8895" xml:space="preserve">And I make the ſame
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            judgment of Tobacco of en taken by the Mother.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8897" xml:space="preserve">The Writers of Natural Magick report, that the Heart of an Ape worn
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-08" xlink:href="note-0244-08a" xml:space="preserve">978.</note>
            near the Heart, comforteth the Heart, and increaſeth audacity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8898" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that
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            the Ape is a merry and bold Beaſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8899" xml:space="preserve">And that the ſame Heart likewiſe of an Ape
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            applied to the Neck or Head, helpeth the Wit, and is good for the Falling
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            ſickneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8900" xml:space="preserve">The Ape alſo is a witty Beaſt, and hath a dry Brain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8901" xml:space="preserve">which may
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            be ſome cauſe of attenuation of Vapors in the Head. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8902" xml:space="preserve">Yet it is ſaid to move
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            Dreams alſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8903" xml:space="preserve">It may be the Heart of a Man would do more, but that it is
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            more againſt Mens mindes to uſe it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8904" xml:space="preserve">except it be in ſuch as wear the Reliques
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            of Saints.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8906" xml:space="preserve">The Fleſh of a Hedghog dreſſed and eaten, is ſaid to be a great dryer.
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-09" xlink:href="note-0244-09a" xml:space="preserve">979.</note>
            It is true, that the Juice of a Hedghog muſt needs be harſh and dry, becauſe
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            it putteth forth ſo many Prickles: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8908" xml:space="preserve">For Plants alſo that are full of Prickles are
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            generally dry; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8909" xml:space="preserve">as Bryars, Thorns, Barberries. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8910" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the aſhes of a
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            Hedghog are ſaid to be a great deſiccative of Fiſtula’s.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8912" xml:space="preserve">Mummy hath great force in ſtanching of Blood; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8913" xml:space="preserve">which as it may be
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-10" xlink:href="note-0244-10a" xml:space="preserve">980.</note>
            aſcribed to the mixture of Balms that are Glutenous, ſo it may alſo partake
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            of a ſecret propriety, in that the Blood draweth Mans fleſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8914" xml:space="preserve">And it is ap-
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            proved, that the Moſs which groweth upon the Scull of a Dead Man unburied
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            will ſtanch Blood potently. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8915" xml:space="preserve">And ſo do the dregs or powder of Blood, ſevered
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            from the Water and dried.</s>
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