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

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          <pb o="25" file="0303" n="303" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1290" type="section" level="1" n="56">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head82" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Medicines for Long Life.</head>
          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10421" xml:space="preserve">THe Art of Phyſick, which we now have, looks no further commonly than to Conſerva-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0303-01" xlink:href="note-0303-01a" xml:space="preserve">To the
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              tenth Ar-
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              ticle.</note>
            tion of Health and Cure of Diſeaſes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10422" xml:space="preserve">As for thoſe things which tend properly to
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            Long Life, there is but ſlight mention, and by the way onely. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10423" xml:space="preserve">Notwith ſtanding we will
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            propound thoſe Medicines which are notable in this kind, I mean, thoſe which are Cordials.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10424" xml:space="preserve">For it is conſonant to reaſon, that thoſe things which being taken in Cures do defend and
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            fortifie the Heart, or, more truly, the Spirits, against Poyſons and Diſeaſes, being tranſ-
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            ferred with judgment and choice into Diet, ſhould have a good effect, in ſome ſort, towards
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            the Prolonging of Life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10425" xml:space="preserve">This we will do, not heaping them promiſcuouſly together, (as
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            the manner is) but ſelecting the beſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10427" xml:space="preserve">Gold is given in three forms; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10428" xml:space="preserve">either in that which they call Aurum potabile, or in
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            Wine wherein Gold hath been quenched, or in Gold in the subſtance, ſuch as are Leaf
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            gold, and the Filings of Gold. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10429" xml:space="preserve">As for Aurum potabile, it is uſed to be given in deſpe-
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            rate or dangerous diſeaſes, and that not without good ſucceſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10430" xml:space="preserve">But we ſuppofe that
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            the Spirits of the Salt, by which the Gold is diſſolved, do rather miniſter that vertue
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            which is found in it, than the Gold it ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10431" xml:space="preserve">though this ſecret be wholly ſuppreſſed.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10432" xml:space="preserve">Now if the body of Gold could be opened with theſe Corroſive waters, or by theſe
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            Corroſive waters (ſo the venomous quality were wanting) well waſhed, we conceive
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            it would be no unprofitable Medicine.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10434" xml:space="preserve">Pearls are taken either in a fine Powder, or in a certain Maſs, or Diſſolution by the
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            juice of ſour and new Limons; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10435" xml:space="preserve">and they are given ſometimes in Aromatical Confecti-
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            ons, ſometimes in Liquor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10436" xml:space="preserve">The Pearl, nodoubt, hath ſome affinity with the Shell in
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            which it groweth, and may be of the ſame quality with the Shels of Cra-fijhes.</s>
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          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10438" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt the transparent precious Stones, two onely are accounted Cordial, the Eme-
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            rauld and the Jacinth, which are given under the ſame forms that the Pearls are; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10439" xml:space="preserve">ſave
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            only that the diſſolutions of them, as far as we know, are not in uſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10440" xml:space="preserve">But we ſuſpect
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            theſe Glaſſie Jewels, leſt they ſhould be cutting.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10442" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe which we have mentioned, how far and in what manner they are helpful, ſhall
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            be ſpoken hereafter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10444" xml:space="preserve">Bezoar-Stone is of approved vertue for refreſhing the Spirits, and procuring a gen
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            tle Sweat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10445" xml:space="preserve">As for the Vnicorn’s Horn, it hath loſt the credit with us; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10446" xml:space="preserve">yet ſo, as it
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            may keep rank with Hart’s Horn, and the Bone in the heart of a Hart, and Ivory,
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            and ſuch like.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10448" xml:space="preserve">Amber-griece is one of the beſt to appeaſe and comfort the Spirits.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">5.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10450" xml:space="preserve">Hereafter follow the names only of the Simple Cordials, ſeeing their Vertues are ſuf-
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            ficiently known.</s>
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          Hot. # Hot. # Cold. # Cold.
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          Saffron. # Clove-Gilly-flowers. # Nitre. # Fuice of ſweet
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          Folium Indum. # Orenge flowers. # Roſes. Violets. # Orenges.
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          Lignum Aloes. # Roſemary. # Strawberry- \\ Leaves. # Fuice of Pearmains.
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          Citron Pill or \\ Rind. # Mint. # # Borage.
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          # Betony. # Straw-berries. # Bugloſs.
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          Balm # Carduus Benedi- \\ Etus. # Fuice of ſweet \\ Limons. # Burnet. Sanders.
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          Baſil. # # Limons. # Camphire.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10452" xml:space="preserve">Seeing our ſpeecb now is of thoſe things which may be transferred into Diet, all hot
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            Waters and Chymieal Oiles, (which, as a certain Trifler ſaith, are under the Planet
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            Mars, and have a furious and deſtructive force) as alſo all hot and biting Spices are
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            to be rejected, and a Conſideration to be had, how waters and Liquors may be made of
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            the former Simples: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10453" xml:space="preserve">not thoſe phlegmatick diſtilled Waters, nor again thoſe burning Waters
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            of spirits of Wine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10454" xml:space="preserve">but ſuch as may be more temperate, and yet lively, and ſending forth
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            a benign Vapour.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10456" xml:space="preserve">I make ſome queſtion touching the frequent letting of Bloud, whether it conduceth
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            to long life nor no; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10457" xml:space="preserve">and I am rather in the opinion that it doth, if it be turned into a
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            habit, and other things be well diſpoſed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10458" xml:space="preserve">for it letteth out the old Juice of the body,
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            and bringeth in new.</s>
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