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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10498" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, on the other ſide we denounce unto men that they will give over trifling, and
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            not imagine that ſo great a work as the ſtopping and turning back the powerful courſe of na-
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            ture, can be brought to paſs by ſome Morning-draught, or the taking of ſome precious
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            Drug, but that they would be aſſured that it muſt needs be, that this is a work of labour,
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            and conſisteth of many Remedies, and a fit connexion of them amongſt themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10499" xml:space="preserve">for no
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            man can be ſo ſtupid as to imagine, that what was never yet done, can be done, but by ſuch
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            ways as were never yet attempted.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10501" xml:space="preserve">I hirdly, we ingeniouſly profeſs, that ſome of thoſe things which we ſhall propound have
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            not been tried by us by way of Experiment, (for our courſe of life doth not permit that)
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            but are derived (as we ſuppoſe) upon good reaſon, out of our Principles and Grounds,
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            (of which ſome we ſet down, others we reſerve in our mind) and are, as it were, cut and
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            digged out of the Rock and Mine of Nature her ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10502" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs we have been careful,
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            and that with all providence and circumſpection, (ſeeing the Scripture ſaith of the Body
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            of Man, that it is more worth than Raiment) to propound ſuch Remedies, as may at
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            leaſt be ſafe, if peradventure they be not fruitful.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10504" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, we would have men rightly to obſerve and diſtinguiſh, that thoſe things which
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            are good for an Healthful Life, are not always good for a Long Life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10505" xml:space="preserve">for there are ſome
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            things which do further the alacrity of the Spirits, and the ſtrength and vigour of the
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            Functions, which notwithſtanding, do cut off from the ſum of Life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10506" xml:space="preserve">and there are other things
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            which are profitable to prolongation of Life, which are not without ſome peril of health,
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            unleſs this matter be ſalved by ſit Remedies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10507" xml:space="preserve">of which, notwithſtanding, as occaſion ſhall be
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            offered, we will not omit to give ſome Cautions and Monitions.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10509" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly we have thought good to propound ſundry Remedies, according to the ſeveral
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            Intentions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10510" xml:space="preserve">but the choice of thoſe Remedies, and the order of them, to leave to Diſ-
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            cretion: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10511" xml:space="preserve">for to ſet down exactly which of them agreeth beſt, with which Conſtitution of
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            Body, which with the ſeveral courſes of Life, which with each mans particular Age, and
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            how they are to be taken one after another, and how the whole Practique of theſe things is to
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            be adminiſtred and governed, would be too long, neither is it ſit to be publiſbed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10513" xml:space="preserve">In the Topicks we propunded three Intentions: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10514" xml:space="preserve">The Prohibiting of Conſumption,
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            The Peifecting of Reparation, and the Renewing of Oldneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10515" xml:space="preserve">But ſeeing thoſe things
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            which ſhall be ſaid are nothing leſs than words, we will deduce theſe three Intentions to ten
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            Operations.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10517" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, the Operation upon the Spirits that they may renew their vigour.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10519" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond Operation is upon the Excluſion of Air.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10521" xml:space="preserve">The third Operation is upon the Bloud, and the Sanguifying Heat.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10523" xml:space="preserve">The fourth Operation is upon the Juices of the Body.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10525" xml:space="preserve">The fifth Operation is upon the Bowels, for their Extruſion of Aliment.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">5.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10527" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth Operation is upon the Outward Parts, for their Attraction of Aliment.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">6.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10529" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh Operation is upon the Aliment it ſelf, for the Inſinuation thereof.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">7.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10531" xml:space="preserve">The eighth Operation is upon the laſt Act of Aſſimilation.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">8.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10533" xml:space="preserve">The ninth Operation is upon the Inteneration of the Parts, after they begin to be dried.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">9.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10535" xml:space="preserve">The tenth Operation is upon the Purging away of Old Juice, and Supplying of New
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0305-10" xlink:href="note-0305-10a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note>
            Juice.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10537" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe Operations, the four firſt belong to the Firſt Intention, the four next to the se-
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            cond Intention, and the two laſt to the Third Intention.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10539" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe this part touching the Intenſions doth tend to Practice, under the name
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            of Hiſtory, we will not onely compriſe Experiments and Obſervations, but alſo Counſels,
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            Remedies, Explications of Cauſes, Aſſumptions, and whatſoever hath reference here-
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            unto.</s>
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