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

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            working at diſtance, to work by the continuance of a ſit Medium; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8996" xml:space="preserve">as Sound
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            will be conveyed to the Ear by ſtriking upon a Bow-ſtring, iſ the Horn of the
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            Bow be held to the Ear.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8998" xml:space="preserve">The Writers of Natural Magick do attribute much to the Virtues that
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            come from the parts of Living Creatures, ſo as they be taken from them, the
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            Creatures remaining ſtill alive; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8999" xml:space="preserve">as if the Creature ſtill living did infuſe ſome
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            immateriate Virtue and Vigor into the part ſevered. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9000" xml:space="preserve">So much may be true,
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            that any part taken from a Living Creature newly ſlain, may be of greater
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            force, then if it were taken from the like Creature dying of it ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9001" xml:space="preserve">becauſe
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            it is fuller of Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9003" xml:space="preserve">Tryal would be made of the like parts of Individuals in Plants and
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            Living Creatures; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9004" xml:space="preserve">as to cut off a Stock of a Tree, and to lay that which you
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            cut off to putrefie, to ſee whether it will decay the reſt oſ the Stock; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9005" xml:space="preserve">or if
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            you ſhould cut off part of the Tail, or Leg of a Dog, or a Cat, and lay it to
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            putrefie, to ſee whether it wili feſter, or keep from healing, the part which
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            remaineth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9007" xml:space="preserve">It is received, that it helpeth to continue love, if one wear a Ring or
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            a Bracelet of the Hair of the party beloved. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9008" xml:space="preserve">But that may be by the exciting
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            of the Imagination; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9009" xml:space="preserve">and perhaps a Glove, or other like Favor, may as well
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            do it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9011" xml:space="preserve">The Sympathy of Individuals that have been entire, or have touched,
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            is of all others, the moſt incredible; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9012" xml:space="preserve">yet according unto our faithful manner
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            of Examination of Nature, we will make ſome little mention of it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9013" xml:space="preserve">The taking
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            away of Warts, by rubbing them with ſomewhat that after wards is put to
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            waſte and conſume, is a common Experiment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9014" xml:space="preserve">and I do apprehend it the
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            rather, becauſe of mine own experience. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9015" xml:space="preserve">I had ſrom my Childhood a Wart
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            upon one of my Fingers; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9016" xml:space="preserve">afterwards, when I was about ſixteen years old,
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            being then at Paris, there grew upon both my hands anumber of Warts (at
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            leaſt an hundred) in a moneths ſpace. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9017" xml:space="preserve">The Engliſh Ambaſſadors Lady, who
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            was a Woman far from Superſtition, told me one day ſhe would help me a-
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            way with my Warts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9018" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon ſhe got a piece of Lard with the skin on,
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            and rubbed the Warts all over with the fat ſide, and amongſt the reſt that
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            Wart which I had from my Childhood; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9019" xml:space="preserve">then ſhe nailed the piece of Lard,
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            with the fat to wards the Sun, upon a poſt of her Chamber window, which
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            was to the South. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9020" xml:space="preserve">The ſucceſs was, that within five weeks ſpace all the Warts
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            went quite away, and that Wart which I had ſolong endured, for company.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9021" xml:space="preserve">But at the reſt I did little marvel, becauſe they came in a ſhort time, and might
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            go away in a ſhort time again; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9022" xml:space="preserve">but the going of that which had ſtaid ſo long
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            doth yet ſtick with me. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9023" xml:space="preserve">They ſay the like is done by rubbing of Warts with
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            a green Elder-ſtick, and then burying the ſtick to rot in muck. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9024" xml:space="preserve">It would be
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            tried with Corns and Wens, and ſuch other Excreſcences: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9025" xml:space="preserve">I would have it
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            alſo tried with ſome parts of Living Creatures that are neareſt the nature of
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            Excreſcences; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9026" xml:space="preserve">as the Combs of Cocks, the Spurs of Cocks, the Horns of
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            Beaſts, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9027" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9028" xml:space="preserve">and I would have it tried both ways; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9029" xml:space="preserve">both by rubbing thoſe parts
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            with Lard or Elder as before; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9030" xml:space="preserve">and by cutting off ſome piece of thoſe parts,
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            and laying it to conſume, to ſee whether it will work any effect towards the
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            Conſumption of that part which was once joyned with it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9032" xml:space="preserve">It is conſtantly received and avouched, that the anointing of the Wea-
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            pon that maketh the Wound, will heal the Wound it ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9033" xml:space="preserve">In this Experiment,
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            upon the relation of men of credit, (though my ſelf, as yet, am not ſully
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            inclined to believe it) you ſhall note the Points following. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9034" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, the Oynt-
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            ment wherewith this is done, is made of divers Ingredients; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9035" xml:space="preserve">where of </s>
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