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

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            ſtrangeſt and hardeſt to come by, are the Moſs upon the Skull of a dead Man
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            unburied, and the Fats of a Boar, and a Bear killed in the act of generation.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9036" xml:space="preserve">Theſe two laſt I could eaſily ſuſpect to be preſeribed as a ſtartling hole, that
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            if the Experiment proved not, it might be pretended, that the Beaſts were not
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            killed in the due time; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9037" xml:space="preserve">for as for the Moſs, it is certain there is great quan-
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            tity of it in Ireland, upon ſlain Bodies laid on heaps unburied. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9038" xml:space="preserve">The other In-
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            gredients are the Blood-ſtone in Powder, and ſome other things which ſeem
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            to have a virtue to ſtanch blood, as alſo the Moſs hath. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9039" xml:space="preserve">And the deſcription
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            of the whole Oyntment is to be found in the Chymical Diſpenſatory of Crollius. </s>
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            Secondly, The ſame kinde of Oynment applied to the hurt it ſelf, worketh
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            not the effect, but onely applied to the weapon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9041" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, (which I like well)
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            they do not obſerve the confecting of the Oyntment under any certain Con-
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            ſtellation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9042" xml:space="preserve">which commonly is the excuſe of Magical Medicines when they
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            fail, that they were not made under a fit figure of Heaven. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9043" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, it may
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            be applied to the Weapon, though the party hurt be at great diſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9044" xml:space="preserve">Fiſth-
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            ly, it ſeemeth the Imagination of the party to be cured is not needſul to con-
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            cur, for it may be done without the knowledge of the party wounded: </s>
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            And thus much hath been tried, that the Oyntment (for Experiments ſake)
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            hath been wiped off the Weapon without the knowledge of the party hurt,
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            and preſently the party hurt hath been in great rage of pain, till the weapon
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            was reanointed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9046" xml:space="preserve">Sixthly, it is affirmed, That if you cannot get the weapon,
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            yet if you put an Inſtrument of Iron or Wood, reſembling the weapon
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            into the Wound, whereby it bleedeth, the anointing of that Inſtrument will
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            ſerve and work the effect. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9047" xml:space="preserve">This I doubt ſhould be a device to keep this
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            ſtrange form of Cure in requeſt and uſe, becauſe many times you cannot
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            comeby the Weapon it ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9048" xml:space="preserve">Seventhly, the Wound muſt be at firſt waſhed
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            clean with White-wine, or the parties own Water, and then bound up cloſe
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            in fine Linnen, and no more dreſſing renewed till it be whole. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9049" xml:space="preserve">Eighthly, the
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            Sword it ſelf muſt be wrapped up cloſe as far as the Oyntment goeth, that it
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            take no wind. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9050" xml:space="preserve">Ninthly, the Oyntment, if you wipe it off from the Sword
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            and keep it, wil ſerve again, and rather increaſe in vertue then diminiſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9051" xml:space="preserve">Tenth-
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            ly, it will cure in far ſhorter time, then Oyntments of Wounds commonly do. </s>
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            Laſtly, it will cure a Beaſt as well as a Man; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9053" xml:space="preserve">which I like beſt of all the reſt,
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            becauſe it ſubjecteth the matter to an eaſie tryal.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9055" xml:space="preserve">IWould have Men know, that though Ireprehend the eaſie paſſing over of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0248-01" xlink:href="note-0248-01a" xml:space="preserve">999.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Secret Proprie-
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              ties.</note>
            the cauſes of things, by aſcribing them to ſecret and hidden virtues and
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            proprieties (for this hath arreſted and laid aſleep all true Inquiry and Indica-
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            tions;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9056" xml:space="preserve">yet I do not underſtand, but that in the practical part of knowledge
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            much will be left to Experience and Probation, whereunto Indication cannot
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            ſo ſully reach; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9057" xml:space="preserve">and this is not onely in Specie, but in Individuo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9058" xml:space="preserve">So in Phyſick,
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            if you will cure the Faundies, it is not enough to ſay, that the Medicine muſt
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            not be cooling, forthat will hinder the opening which the diſeaſe requireth;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9059" xml:space="preserve">that it muſt not be hot, for that will exaſperate Choler; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9060" xml:space="preserve">that it muſt go to
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            the Gall, for there is the obſtruction which cauſeth the diſeaſe, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9061" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9062" xml:space="preserve">But you
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            muſt receive from Experience, that Powder of Chamæpytis, or the like, drunk
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            in Beer, is good for the Faundies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9063" xml:space="preserve">So again, a wiſe Phyſician doth not continue
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            ſtill the ſame Medicine to a Patient, but he will vary, if the firſt Medicine
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            doth not apparently ſucceed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9064" xml:space="preserve">ſor of thoſe Remedies that are good for the
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            Faundies, Stone, Agues, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9065" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9066" xml:space="preserve">that will do good in one Body, which will not
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            do good in another, according to the correſpondence the Medicine hath to
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            the Individual Body.</s>
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