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

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          <pb o="5" file="0283" n="283" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head72" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Deſiccation, Prohibiting of Deſiccation, and In-teneration of that which
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          is deſiccated and dried.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head73" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9365" xml:space="preserve">FIre and ſtrong Heats dry ſome things, and melt others.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">To the ſe-
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          cond Arti-
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          cle.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9367" xml:space="preserve">Limus ut bic dureſcit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9368" xml:space="preserve">hæc ut Cera liqueſcit, Vno eodemque Igne?
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9369" xml:space="preserve">How this Clay is hardned, and how this wax is melted, with one and the ſame thing,
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            Fire? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9370" xml:space="preserve">It drieth Earth, Stones, wood, Cloth, and Skins, and whatſoever is not liquefiable; </s>
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-02" xlink:href="note-0283-02a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            and it melteth Metalls, wax, Gums, Butter, Tallow, and the like.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9373" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding, even in thoſe things which the fire melteth, if it be very vehement
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-03" xlink:href="note-0283-03a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
            and continueth, it doth at laſt dry them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9374" xml:space="preserve">For metal in a ſtrong fire, (Gold onely ex-
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            cepted) the volatile part being gone forth, will become leſs ponderous and more brit-
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            tle; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9375" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe oily and fat ſubſtances in the like fire will burn up, and be dried and
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            parched.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9377" xml:space="preserve">Air, eſpecially open Air, doth manifeſtly dry, but not melt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9378" xml:space="preserve">as High-ways, and the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-04" xlink:href="note-0283-04a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            upper part of the Earth, moiſtned with ſhowers, are dried; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9379" xml:space="preserve">linnen clothes waſhed, if they
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            be hang’
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            d out in the air, are like wiſe dried; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9380" xml:space="preserve">herbs, and leaves, and flowers, laid forth in
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            the ſhade, are dried. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9381" xml:space="preserve">But much more ſuddenly doth the Air this, if it be either en-
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            lightned with the Sun-beams, (ſo that they cauſe no putrefaction) or if the air be ſtir-
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            red, as when the wind bloweth, or in rooms open on all ſides.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9383" xml:space="preserve">Age moſt of all, but yet ſlo weſt of all, drieth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9384" xml:space="preserve">as in all bodies which (if they be not
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-05" xlink:href="note-0283-05a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
            prevented by putrefaction) are drie with Age. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9385" xml:space="preserve">But age is nothing of it ſelf, being
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            onely the meaſure of time; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9386" xml:space="preserve">that which cauſeth the effect is the native Spirit of bodies,
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            which ſucketh up the moiſture of the body, and then, together with it, flieth forth;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9387" xml:space="preserve">and the air ambient, which multiplieth it ſelf upon the native ſpirits and juices of the bo-
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            dy, and preyeth upon them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9389" xml:space="preserve">Cold of all things moſt properly drieth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9390" xml:space="preserve">for drying is not cauſed but by Contraction;
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            </s>
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-06" xlink:href="note-0283-06a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note>
            now contraction is the proper work of cold. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9392" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe we Men have heat in a high
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            degree, namely, that of Fire, but cold in a very low degree, no other than that of
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            VVinter, or perhaps of Ice, or of Snow, or of Nitre; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9393" xml:space="preserve">therefore the drying cauſed by
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            cold is but weak, and caſily reſolved. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9394" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding we ſee the ſurface of the earth
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            to be more dried by Froſt, or by March-winds, than by the Sun, ſe@ing the ſame wind both
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            licketh up the moiſture and afſecteth with coldneſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9396" xml:space="preserve">Smoak is a drier;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9397" xml:space="preserve">as in Bacon and Neats tongues which are hanged up in the chimneys: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9398" xml:space="preserve">and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-07" xlink:href="note-0283-07a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note>
            Perfumes of Olibanum, or Lignum Aloes, and the like, dry the Brain, and cure Catarrhs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9400" xml:space="preserve">Salt, after ſome reaſonable continuance, drieth, not onely on the out-ſide, but in the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-08" xlink:href="note-0283-08a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note>
            inſide alſo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9401" xml:space="preserve">as in Fleſh and Fiſh ſalted, which if they have continued any long time have
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            a manifeſt hardneſs within.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9403" xml:space="preserve">Hot Gums applied to the skin dry and wrinkle it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9404" xml:space="preserve">and ſome aſtringent waters alſo do
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            the ſame.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9406" xml:space="preserve">Spirit of ſtrong waters imitateth the fire in drying; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9407" xml:space="preserve">for it will both potch an Egg put
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-10" xlink:href="note-0283-10a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note>
            into it, and toaſt Bread.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9409" xml:space="preserve">Powders dry like Sponges by drinking up the moiſture, as it is in Sand thrown upon
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-11" xlink:href="note-0283-11a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note>
            Lines new written: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9410" xml:space="preserve">alſo ſmoothneſs and politeneſs of bodies, (which ſuffer not the va-
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            pour of moiſture to go in by the pores) dry by accident, becauſe it expoſeth it to the
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            air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9411" xml:space="preserve">as it is ſeen in precious Stones, Looking glaſſes, and Blades of Swords, upon which if you
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            breath, you ſhall ſee at firſt a little miſt, but ſoon after it vaniſheth like a cloud. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9412" xml:space="preserve">And thus
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            much for Deſiccation or Drying.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9414" xml:space="preserve">They uſe at this day in the East parts of Germany Garners in Vaults under gronnd,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-12" xlink:href="note-0283-12a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note>
            wherein they keep VVheat and other grains, laying a good quantity of ſtraw both under
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            the grains and about them, to ſave them from the dampneſs of the Vault; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9415" xml:space="preserve">by which
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            device they keep their grains 20 or 30 years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9416" xml:space="preserve">And this doth not onely preſerve them
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            from fuſtineſs, but (that which pertains more to the preſ@nt inquiſition) preſerves them
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            alſo in that greenneſs that they are fit and ſerviceable to make bread. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9417" xml:space="preserve">The ſame is reported
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            to have been in uſe in Cappadocia and Thracia, and ſome parts of Spain.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9419" xml:space="preserve">The placing of Garners on the tops of houſes, with windows to wards the Eaſt
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            and North, is very commodious. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9420" xml:space="preserve">Some alſo make two Sollars, an upper and a lower;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9421" xml:space="preserve">and the upper Sollar hath an hole it, through which the grain continually deſcen-
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            deth, like ſand in an hour-glaſs, and after a few dayes they throw it up again
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            with ſhovels, that ſo it may be in continual motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9422" xml:space="preserve">Now it is to be </s>
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