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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8917" xml:space="preserve">It hath been practiſed to make White Swallaws, by anointing of the Eggs
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-01" xlink:href="note-0245-01a" xml:space="preserve">981.</note>
            with Oyl. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8918" xml:space="preserve">Which effect may be produced by the ſtopping of the Pores of
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            the Shell, and making the Juice that putteth forth the Feathers after wards
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            more penurious, And it may be, the anointing of the Eggs will be as effectu-
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            al as the anointing of the Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8919" xml:space="preserve">Of which, Vide the Experiment 93.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8921" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that the White of an Egg or Blood mingled with Salt-
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            water, doth gather the ſaltneſs, and maketh the water ſweeter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8922" xml:space="preserve">This may be
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            by Adheſion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8923" xml:space="preserve">as in the Sixth Experiment of Clarification. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8924" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, that
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            Blood, and the White of an Egg, (which is the matter of a Living Creature)
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            have ſome Sympathy with Salt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8925" xml:space="preserve">for all Life, hath a Sympathy with Salt.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8926" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that Salt laid to a cut finger, healeth it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8927" xml:space="preserve">ſo, as it ſeemeth, Salt draw-
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            eth Blood, as well as Blood draweth Salt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8929" xml:space="preserve">It hath been anciently received, that the Sea-Hare hath an antipathy
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            with the Lungs, (if it cometh near the Body) and erodeth them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8930" xml:space="preserve">Whereof
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            the cauſe is conceived to be a quality it hath of heating the Breath and Spi-
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            rits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8931" xml:space="preserve">as Cantharides have upon the watry parts of the Body, as Urine and Hy-
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            dropical Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8932" xml:space="preserve">And it is a good rule, That whatſoever hath an operation
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            upon certain kindes of Matters, that in Mans Body worketh moſt upon
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            thoſe parts wherein that kinde of matter aboundeth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8934" xml:space="preserve">Generally that which is Dead, or Corrupted, or Excerned, hath antipa-
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            thy with the ſame thing when it is alive, and when it is ſound, and with thoſe
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            parts which do excern: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8935" xml:space="preserve">As a Carcaſs of Man is moſt infectious and odious to
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            Man, a Carrion of an Horſe to an Horſe, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8936" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8937" xml:space="preserve">Purulent matter of Wounds
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            and Ulcers, Carbuncles, Pox, Scabs, Leproſie, to ſound Fleſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8938" xml:space="preserve">and the Ex-
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            crements of every Species to that Creature that excerneth them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8939" xml:space="preserve">But the
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            Excrements are leſs pernicious then the corruptions.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8941" xml:space="preserve">It is a common experience, That Dogs know the Dog-killer, when as
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            in times of Infection ſome pety fellow is ſent out to kill the Dogs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8942" xml:space="preserve">and that
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            though they have never ſeen him before, yet they will all come forth, and
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            bark, and flie at him.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8944" xml:space="preserve">The Relations touching the Force of Imagination, and the Secret Inſtincts
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            of Nature, are ſo uncertain, as they require a great deal of Examination ere
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            we conclude upon them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8945" xml:space="preserve">I would have it firſt throughly inquired, whether
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            there be any ſecret paſſages of Sympathy between Perſons of near Blood; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8946" xml:space="preserve">as
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            Parents, Children, Brothers, Siſters, Nurſe-children, Husbands, Wives, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8947" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8948" xml:space="preserve">There
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            be many reports in Hiſtory, that upon the death of Perſons of ſuch nearneſs,
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            Men have had an in ward feeling of it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8949" xml:space="preserve">I my ſelf remember, that being in
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            Paris, and my Father dying in London, two or three days before my Fathers
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            death, I had a dream, which I told to divers Engliſh Gentlemen, that my Fa-
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            thers Houſe in the Countrey was Plaiſtered all over with Black Mortar. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8950" xml:space="preserve">There
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            is an opinion abroad, (whether idle, or no I cannot ſay) That loving and
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            kinde Husbands have a ſenſe of their Wives breeding Childe by ſome acci-
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            dent in their own Body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8952" xml:space="preserve">Next to thoſe that are near in Blood, there may be the like paſſage and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-07" xlink:href="note-0245-07a" xml:space="preserve">987.</note>
            inſtincts of Nature between great Friends and Enemies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8953" xml:space="preserve">And ſometimes the
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            revealing is unto another perſon, and not to the party himſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8954" xml:space="preserve">I remember
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            Philippus Comineus (a grave Writer) reporteth, That the Archbiſhop of Vienna
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            (a Reverend Prelat) ſaid (one day) after Maſs to King Lewis the Eleventh of
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            France, Sir, rour Mortal Enemy is dead; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8955" xml:space="preserve">what time, Charles Duke of Burgundy
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            was ſlain at the Battel of Granſon againſt the Switzers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8956" xml:space="preserve">Some tryal alſo would
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            be made, whether Pact or Agreement do any thing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8957" xml:space="preserve">as if two Friends ſhould
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            agree, That ſuch a day in every Week, they being in far diſtant </s>
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