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

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            dried, and a little Myrrhe ſnuffed up in the morning at the mouth and noſtrils, would be
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            very good.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10654" xml:space="preserve">In Grand Opiates, ſuch as are Treacle, Methridate, and the reſt, it would not be
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-01" xlink:href="note-0308-01a" xml:space="preserve">34.</note>
            amiſs (eſpecially in youth) to take rather the diſtilled Waters of them than themſelyes
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            in their bodies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10655" xml:space="preserve">for the vapour in diſtilling doth riſe, but the heat of the Medicine com-
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            monly ſetleth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10656" xml:space="preserve">Now diſtilled Waters are good in thoſe vertues which are conveyed by
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            Vapours, in other things but weak.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10658" xml:space="preserve">There are Medicines which have a certain weak and hidden degree, and therefore
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-02" xlink:href="note-0308-02a" xml:space="preserve">35.</note>
            ſafe to an Opiate vertue; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10659" xml:space="preserve">theſe ſend forth a ſlow and copious vapour, but not malig-
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            nant as Opiates do, therefore they put not the Spirits to flight; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10660" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding they
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            congregate them, and ſome what thicken them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10662" xml:space="preserve">Medicines in order to Opiates are principally Saffron, next Folium Indum, Am-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-03" xlink:href="note-0308-03a" xml:space="preserve">36.</note>
            ber-greeſe, Coriander-ſeed prepared, Amomum, Pſeuda-momum, Lignum-Rh
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            odium,
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            Orenge-flower water, and much more the Infuſion of the ſame Flowers new gathered
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            in the Oil of Almonds; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10663" xml:space="preserve">Nutmegs pricked full of holes, and macerated in Roſe-
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            water.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10665" xml:space="preserve">As Opiates are to be taken very ſparingly, and at certain times, as was ſaid, ſo theſe ſe-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-04" xlink:href="note-0308-04a" xml:space="preserve">37.</note>
            condaries may be taken familiarly, and in our daily diet, and they will be very effectual
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            to prolongation of life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10666" xml:space="preserve">Certainly an Apothecary of Calecute, by the uſe of Amber,
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            is ſaid to have lived an hundred and ſixty years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10667" xml:space="preserve">and the Noble-men of Barbary, through
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            the uſe thereof, are certifi’d to be very long liv’d, whereas the mean people are but
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            of ſhort life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10668" xml:space="preserve">And our Anceſtors, who were longer-liv’d than we, did uſe S
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            affron
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            much in their Cakes, Broths, and the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10669" xml:space="preserve">And touching the firſt way of condenſing
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            the Spirits of Opiates and the Subordinates thereto, thus much.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10671" xml:space="preserve">Now we will enquire of the ſecond way of condenſing the Spirits by Cold. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10672" xml:space="preserve">For the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-05" xlink:href="note-0308-05a" xml:space="preserve">38.</note>
            proper work of Cold is Condenſation, and it is done without any malignity, or adverſe
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            quality; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10673" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it is a ſafer operation than by Opiates, though ſomewhat leſs
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            powerful, if it be done by turns onely, as Opiates are. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10674" xml:space="preserve">But then again, becauſe it may
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            be uſed familiarly, and in our daily diet with moderation, it is much more powerful for
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            the prolongation of life than by Opiates.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10676" xml:space="preserve">The Refrigeration of the Spirits is effected three ways, either by Respiration,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-06" xlink:href="note-0308-06a" xml:space="preserve">39.</note>
            or by Vapours, or by Aliment. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10677" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is the beſt, but, in a ſort, out of our
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            power; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10678" xml:space="preserve">the ſecond is potent, but yet ready, and at hand; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10679" xml:space="preserve">the third is weak, and
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            ſomewhat about.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10681" xml:space="preserve">Air clear and pure, and which hath no foggineſs in it, before it be received into the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-07" xlink:href="note-0308-07a" xml:space="preserve">40.</note>
            Lungs, and which is leaſt expoſed to the Sun-beams, condenſeth the Spirits beſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10682" xml:space="preserve">Such
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            is found either on the tops of dry Mountains, or in Champagnes open to the wind, and
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            yet not without ſome ſhade.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10684" xml:space="preserve">As for the Refrigeration and Condenſation of the Spirits by Vapours, the Root of this
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            operation we place in Nitre, as a Creature purpoſely made and choſen for this end, be-
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            ing thereunto led, and perſwaded by theſe Arguments.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10686" xml:space="preserve">Nitre is a kind of cool Spice: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10687" xml:space="preserve">this is apparent to the ſenſe it ſelf, for it bites the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-09" xlink:href="note-0308-09a" xml:space="preserve">42.</note>
            Tongue and Palate with cold, as Spices do with heat, and it is the onely thing, as far as
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            we know, that hath this property.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10689" xml:space="preserve">Almoſt all cold things (which are cold properly, and not by accident, as Opium is)
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            are poor and jejune of Spirit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10690" xml:space="preserve">contrarily, things full of Spirit are almoſt all hot, onely
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            Nitre is found amongſt Vegetables, which aboundeth with Spirit, and yet is cold. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10691" xml:space="preserve">As
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            for Camphire, which is full of Spirit, and yet performeth the actions of cold, it cooleth
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            by accident onely; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10692" xml:space="preserve">as namely, for that by the thinneſs thereof, without Acrimony,
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            it helpeth perſpiration in inflammations.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10694" xml:space="preserve">In congealing and freezing of Liquors, (which is lately grown into uſe) by laying
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-11" xlink:href="note-0308-11a" xml:space="preserve">44.</note>
            Snow and Ice on the out-ſide of the Veſſel, Nitre is alſo added, and no doubt it ex-
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            citeth and fortifieth the Congelation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10695" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that they uſe alſo for this work ordinary
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            Bay-Salt, which doth rather give activity to the coldneſs of the Snow, than cool by it
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            ſelf: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10696" xml:space="preserve">But, as I have heard, in the hotter Regions, where Snow falls not, the congeal-
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            ing is wrought by Nitre alone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10697" xml:space="preserve">but this I cannot certainly affirm.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10699" xml:space="preserve">It is affirmed that Gun powder, which conſiſteth principally of Nitre, being taken in
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            drink, doth conduce to valour, and that it is uſed oftentimes by Mariners and Souldiers
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            before they begin their Battels, as the Turks do Opium.</s>
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