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

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            in their own ſociety, do enjoy themſelves, and betake themſelves into their proper
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            Centre.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10754" xml:space="preserve">For theſe, if you recollect thoſe things which were formerly ſet down, as Subor-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-01" xlink:href="note-0310-01a" xml:space="preserve">61.</note>
            dinates to Opium and Nitre, there will need no other Inquiſition.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10756" xml:space="preserve">As for the quieting of the unrulineſs of the Spirits, we ſhall preſently ſpeak of that,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-02" xlink:href="note-0310-02a" xml:space="preserve">62.</note>
            when we enquire touching their Motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10757" xml:space="preserve">Now then, ſeeing we have ſpoken of that
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            Condenſation of the Spirits which pertaineth to their ſubſtance, we will come to the
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            temper of Heat in them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10759" xml:space="preserve">The Heat of the Spirits, as we ſaid, ought to be of that kind that it may be robuſt,
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            not eager, and may delight rather to maſter the tough and obſtinate, than to carry away
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            the thin and light humors.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10761" xml:space="preserve">We muſt beware of Spices, wine, and ſtrong Drinks, that our uſe of them be very
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-04" xlink:href="note-0310-04a" xml:space="preserve">64.</note>
            temperate, and ſometimes diſcontinued; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10762" xml:space="preserve">alſo of Savory, Wild marjoram, Penny-royal,
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            and all ſuch as bite and heat the tongue; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10763" xml:space="preserve">for they yield unto the Spirits an heat not O-
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            perative, but Predatory.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10765" xml:space="preserve">Theſe yield a robuſt heat, eſpecially Elecampane, Garlick, Carduus Benedictus,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-05" xlink:href="note-0310-05a" xml:space="preserve">65.</note>
            Water-creßes while they are young, Germander, Angelica, Zedoary, Vervin, Valerian,
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            Myrrhe, Pepper-wort, Elder flowers, Garden-Chervile;</s>
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            The uſe of theſe things with
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            choice and judgement, ſometimes in Sallads, ſometimes in Medicines, will ſatisfie this
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            Operation.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10768" xml:space="preserve">It falls out well that the Grand Opiates will alſo ſerve excellently for this Operation,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-06" xlink:href="note-0310-06a" xml:space="preserve">66.</note>
            in reſpect that they yield ſuch an heat by compoſition, which is wiſhed, but not to be
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            found, in Simples. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10769" xml:space="preserve">For the mixing of thoſe exceſſive hot things (ſuch as are En
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            phor-
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            bium, Pellitory of Spain, stavis-acre, Dragon-wort, Anacordi, caſtoreum, Ariſtolochium,
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            Opponax, Ammoniachum, Galbanum, and the like, which of themſelves cannot be taken
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            inwardly) to qualifie and abate the Stupefactive virtue of the Opium, they do make
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            ſuch a conſtitution of a Medicament as we now require; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10770" xml:space="preserve">which is excellently ſeen in
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            this, That Treacle and Methridate, and the reſt, are not ſharp, nor bite the tongue,
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            but are onely ſomewhat bitter, and of ſtrong ſcent, and at laſt manifeſt their heat when
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            they come into the ſtomach, and in their ſubſequent operations.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10772" xml:space="preserve">There conduce alſo to the robuſt heat of the Spirits Venus often excited, rarely
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-07" xlink:href="note-0310-07a" xml:space="preserve">67.</note>
            performed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10773" xml:space="preserve">and no leſs ſome of the affections, of which ſhall be ſpoken hereafter.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10774" xml:space="preserve">So touching the heat of the Spirits, Analogical to the prolongation of Life, thus
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            much.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10776" xml:space="preserve">Touching the Quantity of the Spirits, that they be not exuberant and boiling, but
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-08" xlink:href="note-0310-08a" xml:space="preserve">68.</note>
            rather sparing, and within a mean, (ſeeing a ſmall flame doth not devour ſo much as a
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            great flame) the Inquiſition will be ſhort.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10778" xml:space="preserve">It ſeems to be approved by experience, that a spare Diet, and almoſt a Pythagori-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-09" xlink:href="note-0310-09a" xml:space="preserve">69.</note>
            cal, ſuch as is either preſcribed by the ſtrict Rules of a Monastical life, or practiſed
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            by Hermites, which have Neceſſity and Poverty for their Rule, rendreth a man long-
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            liv’d.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10780" xml:space="preserve">Hitherto appertain drinking of water, a hard Bed, abſtinence from Fire, a ſlender
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-10" xlink:href="note-0310-10a" xml:space="preserve">70.</note>
            Diet, (as namely, of Herbs, Fruits, Fleſh, and Fiſh, rather powdred and ſalted than
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            freſh and hot) an Hair-ſhirt, frequent Faſtings, frequent Watchings, few ſenſual Plea-
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            ſures, and ſuch like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10781" xml:space="preserve">for all theſe diminiſh the Spirits, and reduce them to ſuch a quan-
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            tity as may be ſuffi
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            cient onely for the Functions of Life, whereby the depredation is the
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            leſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10783" xml:space="preserve">But if the Diet ſhall not be altogether ſo rigorous and mortifying, yet notwithſtand-
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            ing ſhall be always equal and conſtant to it ſelf, it worketh the ſame effect. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10784" xml:space="preserve">We ſee
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            it in Flames, that a Flame ſomewhat bigger (ſo it be always alike and quiet) conſu-
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            meth leſs of the fuel than a leſſer Flame blown with Bellows, and by Guſts ſtronger
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            or weaker: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10785" xml:space="preserve">That which the Regiment and Diet of Cornarus the Venetian ſhewed
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            plainly, who did eat and drink ſo many years together by a juſt weight, where-
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            by he exceeded an hundred years of age, ſtrong in limbs, and intire in his
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            ſenſes.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10787" xml:space="preserve">Care alſo muſt be taken, that a body plentifully nouriſhed, and not emaciated by
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-12" xlink:href="note-0310-12a" xml:space="preserve">72.</note>
            any of theſe aforeſaid Diets, omitteth not a ſeaſonable uſe of Venus, leſt the Spirits in-
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            creaſe too faſt, and ſoften and deſtroy the body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10788" xml:space="preserve">So then, touching a moderate quan-
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            tity of Spirits, and (as we may ſay) Frugal, thus much.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10790" xml:space="preserve">The Inquiſition touching bridling the motions of the Spirits followeth next.
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-13" xlink:href="note-0310-13a" xml:space="preserve">73.</note>
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