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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9478" xml:space="preserve">The Inteneration or making tender of that which is dried (which is the chief Mat-
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            ter) affords but a ſmall number of Experiments. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9479" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſome few Experiments
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            which are found in Living Creatures, and alſo in Man ſhall be joyned together.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9481" xml:space="preserve">Bands of Willow, wherewith they uſe to binde Trees, laid in Water, grow more
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-02" xlink:href="note-0285-02a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note>
            flexible; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9482" xml:space="preserve">likewiſe they put Boughs of Birch (the ends of them) in Earthen Pots filled
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            with Water, to keep them from withering; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9483" xml:space="preserve">and Bowls cleft with dryneſs, ſteep’d in
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            Water, cloſe again.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9485" xml:space="preserve">Boots grown hard and obſtinate with age, by greaſing them before the Fire with
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-03" xlink:href="note-0285-03a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note>
            Tallow, wax ſoft, or being onely held before the Fire get ſome ſoftneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9486" xml:space="preserve">Bladders and
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            Parchments hardned alſo become tender with warm Water, mixed with Tallow or any
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            Fat thing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9487" xml:space="preserve">but much the better, if they be a little chafed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9489" xml:space="preserve">Trees grown very old, that have ſtood long without any culture, by digging and
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            opening the Earth about the Roots of them, ſeem to grow young again, and put forth
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            young Branches.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9491" xml:space="preserve">Old Draught Oxen worn out with labor, being taken from the yoak, and put into
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            freſh Paſture, will get young and tender fleſh again, inſomuch, that they will eat as freſh
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            and tender as a Steer.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9493" xml:space="preserve">A ſtrict Emaciating Diet of Guaiacum, Bisket, and the like, (wherewith they uſe to
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            cure the French-Pox, Old catarrhs, and ſome kinde of Dropſies) doth firſt bring men to
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            great poverty and leanneſs, by waſting the Juices and Humors of the Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9494" xml:space="preserve">which
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            after they begin to be repaired again, ſeem manifeſtly more vigorous and young. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9495" xml:space="preserve">Nay,
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            and I am of opinion, that Emaciating Diſeaſes afterwards well cured, have advanced
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            many in the way of long life.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1155" type="section" level="1" n="51">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head74" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Obſervations.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9497" xml:space="preserve">MEn ſee clearly, like Owls, in the Night of their own Notions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9498" xml:space="preserve">but in Experience, as
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            in the Day-light they wink and are but half ſighted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9499" xml:space="preserve">They speak much of the Ele-
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            mentary quality of Siccity or Drineſs, and of things Deſiccating, and of the Natural Periods
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            of Bodies, in which they are corrupted and conſumed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9500" xml:space="preserve">But mean while, either in the begin-
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            nings, or middle paſſages, or laſts acts of Deſiccation and Conſumption, they obſerve no-
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            thing that is of moment.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9502" xml:space="preserve">Deſiccation or Conſumption in the proceſs thereof, is finiſhed by three Actions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9503" xml:space="preserve">and
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            all th@ſe (as was ſaid before) have their original from the Native Spirit of Bodies.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9505" xml:space="preserve">The firſt Action is, the Attenuation of the Moiſture into Spirit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9506" xml:space="preserve">the ſecond is, the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-09" xlink:href="note-0285-09a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            Iſſuing forth or flight of the Spirit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9507" xml:space="preserve">the third is, the Contraction of the groſſer parts of
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            the Body immediately after the Spirit iſſued forth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9508" xml:space="preserve">And this laſt is, that Deſic@ation and
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            Induration which we chiefly bandle; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9509" xml:space="preserve">the former two conſume onely.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9511" xml:space="preserve">Touching Attenuation, the matter is manifeſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9512" xml:space="preserve">For the Spirit which is incloſed in every
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-10" xlink:href="note-0285-10a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
            Tangible Body forgets not its nature, but whatſoever it meets withal in the Body (in which
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            it is incloſed) that it can digeſt and maſter, and turn into it ſelf, that it plainly alters and
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            ſubdues, and multiplies it ſelf upon it, and begets new Spirit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9513" xml:space="preserve">And this evicted by one proof,
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            inſtead of many; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9514" xml:space="preserve">for that thoſe things which are throughly dryed are leßened in their weight,
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            and become hollow, porous, and reſounding from within. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9515" xml:space="preserve">Now it is moſt certain, that the in-
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            ward Spirit of any thing, confers nothing to the weight, but rather lig'tens it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9516" xml:space="preserve">and there-
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            fore it muſt needs be, that the ſame Spirit hath turned into it the moiſture and juyce of the
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            Body which weighed before, by which means the weight is leſſened. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9517" xml:space="preserve">And this is the firſt
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            Action, the Attenuation of the Moiſture, and Converting it into Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9519" xml:space="preserve">The ſ@cond Action, which is the lſſuing forth or Flight of the Spirit, is as manifeſt
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            alſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9520" xml:space="preserve">For that iſſuing forth, when it is in throngs, is apparent even to the ſenſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9521" xml:space="preserve">in Vapors to
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            the ſight, in Odors to the ſmelling; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9522" xml:space="preserve">but if it iſſueth forth ſlowly, (as when a thing is decayed
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            by age) then it is not apparent to the ſenſe, but the matter is the ſame. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9523" xml:space="preserve">Again, where the
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            compoſure of the Body is either ſo ſtreight or ſo tenacious, that the Spirit can finde no pores or
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            paſſages by which to depart, then, in the ſtriving to get out, it drives before it the groſſer parts
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            of the Body, and protrudes them beyond the ſuperficies or ſurface of the Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9524" xml:space="preserve">as it is in the
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            ruſt of Metals, and mould of all Fat things. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9525" xml:space="preserve">And this is the ſecond Action, the Iſſuing
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            forth or Flight of the Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9527" xml:space="preserve">The third Action is ſomewhat more obſcure, but full as certain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9528" xml:space="preserve">that is, the Con-
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            traction of the groſſer parts after the Spirit iſſued forth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9529" xml:space="preserve">And this appears, firſt, in that
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            Bodies after the Spirit iſſued forth, do manifeſtly ſhrink, and fill a leſs room; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9530" xml:space="preserve">as it is </s>
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