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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10596" xml:space="preserve">The Grecians attributed much, both for health and for prolongation of life, as O-
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            piates: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10597" xml:space="preserve">but the Arabians much more, inſomuch that their grand Medicines (which they
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            called the gods Hands) had Opium for their Baſis and principal Ingredient, other things
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            being mixed to abate and correct the noxious qualities thereof; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10598" xml:space="preserve">ſuch were Treacle,
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            Methridate, and the reſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10600" xml:space="preserve">Whatſoever is given with good ſucceſs in the curing of Peſtilential and Malignant
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            Diſeaſes, to ſtop and bridle the Spirits, leſt they grow turbulent and tumultuate, may
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            very happily be transferred to the prolongation of life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10601" xml:space="preserve">for one thing is effectual unto
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            both, namely, the condenſation of the Spirits: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10602" xml:space="preserve">now there is nothing better for that
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            than Opiates.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10604" xml:space="preserve">The Turks find Opium, even in a reaſonable good quantity, harmleſs and comfortable,
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            inſomuch that they take it before their Battel to excite courage: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10605" xml:space="preserve">but to us, unleſs it be
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            in a very ſmall quantity, and with good Correctives, it is mortal.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10607" xml:space="preserve">Opium and Opiates are manifeſtly found to excite Venus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10608" xml:space="preserve">which ſhews them to have
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            force to corroborate the Spirits.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10610" xml:space="preserve">Diſtilled Water of wilde Poppy is given with good ſucceſs in Surfeits, Agues, and divers
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            diſeaſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10611" xml:space="preserve">which no doubt is a temperate kind of Opiate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10612" xml:space="preserve">Neither let any man wonder
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            at the various uſe of it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10613" xml:space="preserve">for that is familiar to Opiates, in regard that the Spirits, cor-
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            roborated and condenſed, will riſe up againſt any diſeaſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10615" xml:space="preserve">The Turks uſe a kind of Herb which they call Caphe, which they dry and powder,
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            and then drink in warm water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10616" xml:space="preserve">which, they ſay, doth not a little ſharpen them, both
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            in their Courage, and in their Wits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10617" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding, if it be taken in a large quantity,
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            it affects and diſturbs the mind: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10618" xml:space="preserve">whereby it is manifeſt, that it is of the ſame nature
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            with Opiates.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10620" xml:space="preserve">There is a Root much renowned in all the Eaſtern parts, which they call Betel, which
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            the Indians and others uſe to carry in their mouths, and to champ it, and by that
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            champing they are wonderfully enabled both to endure labours, and to overcome
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            ſickneſſes, and to the act of carnal copulation: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10621" xml:space="preserve">It ſeems to be a kind of Stupefactive,
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            becauſe it exceedingly blacks the Teeth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10623" xml:space="preserve">Tobacco in our age is immoderately grown into uſe, and it affects men with a ſe-
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            cret kind of delight, inſomuch that they who have once inured themſelves unto it can
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            hardly afterwards leave it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10624" xml:space="preserve">and no doubt it hath power to lighten the body, and to
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            ſhake off wearineſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10625" xml:space="preserve">Now the vertue of it is commonly thought to be, becauſe it
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            opens the paſſages, and voids humors: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10626" xml:space="preserve">but it may more rightly be referred to the con-
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            denſation of the Spirits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10627" xml:space="preserve">for it is a kind of Henbane, and manifeſtly troubles the
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            Head, as Opiates do.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10629" xml:space="preserve">There are ſometimes Humors engendred in the body, which are, as it were, Opiate
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            themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10630" xml:space="preserve">as it is in ſome kind of Melancholies, with which if a man be affected, it
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            is a ſign of very long life.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10632" xml:space="preserve">The ſimple Opiates (which are alſo called Stupefactives) are theſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10633" xml:space="preserve">Opium it ſelf,
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            which is the juice of Poppy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10634" xml:space="preserve">both the Poppies, as well in the Herb as in the Seed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10635" xml:space="preserve">Hen-
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            bane, Mandrake, Hemlock, Tobacco, Night-ſhade.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10637" xml:space="preserve">The compound Opiates are, Treacle, Methridate, Trifera, Ladanum, Paracelſi, Diaco-
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            nium, Diaſcordium, Philonium, Pills of Hounds-tongue.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10639" xml:space="preserve">From this which hath been ſaid, certain Deſignations or Counſels may be deduced
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            for the prolongation of life, according to the preſent intenſion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10640" xml:space="preserve">namely, of condenſing
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            the Spirits by Opiates.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10642" xml:space="preserve">L
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            et there be therefore every year, from Adult years of Youth, an Opiate diet; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10643" xml:space="preserve">let it
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            be taken about the end of May, becauſe the Spirits in the Summer are more looſe and
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            attenuated, and there are leſs dangers from cold humours; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10644" xml:space="preserve">let it be ſome Magiſtral
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            Opiate, weaker than thoſe that are commonly in uſe, both in reſpect of a ſmaller quan-
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            tity of Opium, and of a more ſparing mixture of extreme hot things; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10645" xml:space="preserve">let it be taken in
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            the morning betwixt ſleeps. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10646" xml:space="preserve">The fare for that time would be more ſimple and ſpa-
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            ring than ordinary, without Wine, or Spices, or Vapourous things. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10647" xml:space="preserve">This Medicine to
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            be taken onely each other day, and to be continued for a fortnight. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10648" xml:space="preserve">This Deſignation in
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            our judgment comes home to the intenſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10650" xml:space="preserve">Opiates alſo may be taken, not onely by the mouth, but alſo by Fumes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10651" xml:space="preserve">but the
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            Fumes muſt be ſuch as may not move the expulſive Faculty too ſtrongly, nor force
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            down humours, but onely taken in a Weft, may work upon the Spirits within the
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            brain. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10652" xml:space="preserve">And therefore a Suffumigation of Tobacco, Lignum-Aloes, </s>
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