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

List of thumbnails

< >
311
311 (33) 		312
312 (34)
313
313 (35) 		314
314 (36)
315
315 (37) 		316
316 (38)
317
317 (39) 		318
318 (40)
319
319 (41) 		320
320 (42)
< >
page |< < (36) of 389 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div1401" type="section" level="1" n="59">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10939" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="36" file="0314" n="314" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
            and haſten the Deſiccation thereof; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10940" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the Excluſion of it is effectual to
              <lb/>
            length of life.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10941" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10942" xml:space="preserve">Another effect which followeth the Excluſion of Air is much more ſubtil and pro-
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-01" xlink:href="note-0314-01a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
            found, namely, that the Body cloſed up, and not perſpiring by the pores, detaineth the
              <lb/>
            Spirits within, and turneth it upon the harder parts of the body, whereby the Spirit
              <lb/>
            mollifies and intenerates them.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10943" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10944" xml:space="preserve">Of this thing the reaſon is explained in the Deſiccation of Inanimate Bodies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10945" xml:space="preserve">and
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-02" xlink:href="note-0314-02a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            it is an Axiom almoſt infallible, That the Spirit diſcharged and iſſuing forth, drieth
              <lb/>
            Bodies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10946" xml:space="preserve">detained, melteth and intenerateth them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10947" xml:space="preserve">And it is further to be aſſumed,
              <lb/>
            That all Heat doth properly attenuate and moiſten, and contracteth and drieth onely by
              <lb/>
            Accident.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10948" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10949" xml:space="preserve">Leading the Life in Dens and caves, where the Air receives not the Sun-beams, may
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-03" xlink:href="note-0314-03a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
            be effectual to long life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10950" xml:space="preserve">For the Air of it ſelf doth not much towards the depreda-
              <lb/>
            tion of the body, unleſs it be ſtirred up by heat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10951" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, if a man ſhall recal things
              <lb/>
            paſt to his memory, it will appear that the ſtatures of men have been anciently much
              <lb/>
            greater than thoſe that ſucceeded, as in Sicily, and ſome other places: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10952" xml:space="preserve">but this kind of
              <lb/>
            men led their lives, for the moſt part, in Caves. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10953" xml:space="preserve">Now length of life and largeneſs of
              <lb/>
            limbs have ſome affinity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10954" xml:space="preserve">The cave alſo of Epimenides walks among the Fables. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10955" xml:space="preserve">I
              <lb/>
            ſuppoſe likewiſe, that the life of Columnar Anchorites was a thing reſembling the life
              <lb/>
            in Caves, in reſpect the Sun-beams could not much pierce thither, nor the Air receive
              <lb/>
            any great changes or inequalities. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10956" xml:space="preserve">This is certain, both the Simeon Stelita’s, as well
              <lb/>
            Daniel as Saba, and other Columnar Anchorites, have been exceeding long-liv’d. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10957" xml:space="preserve">Like-
              <lb/>
            wiſe the Anchorites in our dayes, cloſed up and immured either within Walls or Pillars,
              <lb/>
            are often found to be long-liv’d.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10958" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10959" xml:space="preserve">Next unto the life in Caves is the life on Mountains: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10960" xml:space="preserve">for as the beams of the
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-04" xlink:href="note-0314-04a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note>
            Sun do not penetrate into Caves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10961" xml:space="preserve">ſo on the tops of Mountains, being deſtitute of
              <lb/>
            Reflexion, they are of ſmall force. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10962" xml:space="preserve">But this is to be underſtood of Mountains where
              <lb/>
            the Air is clear and pure; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10963" xml:space="preserve">namely, whether by reaſon of the drineſs of the Vallies, Clouds
              <lb/>
            and Vapours do not aſcend; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10964" xml:space="preserve">as it is in the Mountains which encompaſs Barbary, where,
              <lb/>
            even at this day, they live many times to an hundred and fifty years, as hath been noted
              <lb/>
            before.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10965" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10966" xml:space="preserve">And this kind of Air of Caves and Mountains, of its own proper nature, is little or
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-05" xlink:href="note-0314-05a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note>
            nothing predatory; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10967" xml:space="preserve">but Air, ſuch as ours is, which is predatory through the heat of
              <lb/>
            the Sun, ought as much as is poſſible, to be excluded from the body.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10968" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10969" xml:space="preserve">But the Air is prohibited and excluded two ways: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10970" xml:space="preserve">firſt, by cloſing the Pores; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10971" xml:space="preserve">ſe-
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-06" xlink:href="note-0314-06a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note>
            condly, by filling them up.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10972" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10973" xml:space="preserve">To the cloſing of the Pores help coldneſs of the air, going naked, whereby the skin
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-07" xlink:href="note-0314-07a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note>
            is made hard, waſhing in cold water, Aſtringents applied to the skin, ſuch as are Ma-
              <lb/>
            ſtick, Myrrbe, Myrtle.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10974" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10975" xml:space="preserve">But much more may we ſatisfie this Operation by Baths, yet thoſe rarely uſed, (eſpe-
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-08" xlink:href="note-0314-08a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note>
            cially in Summer) which are made of Aſtringent Mineral Waters, ſuch as may ſafely be
              <lb/>
            uſed, as Waters participating of Steel and Coperas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10976" xml:space="preserve">for theſe do potently contract the
              <lb/>
            skin.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10977" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10978" xml:space="preserve">As for filling up the Pores, Paintings and ſuch like Vnctuous daubings, and (which
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-09" xlink:href="note-0314-09a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note>
            may moſt commodiouſly be uſed) Oil and fat things, do no leſs conſerve the ſubſtance
              <lb/>
            of the body, than Oil-colours and Varniſh do preſerve Wood.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10979" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10980" xml:space="preserve">The ancient Britains painted their bodies with Woad, and were exceeding long liv’d:
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10981" xml:space="preserve">
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-10" xlink:href="note-0314-10a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note>
            the Picts alſo uſed paintings, and are thought by ſome to have derived their name from
              <lb/>
            thence.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10982" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10983" xml:space="preserve">The Braſilians and Virginians paint themſelves at this day, who are (eſpecially the
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-11" xlink:href="note-0314-11a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note>
            former) very long liv’d; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10984" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch that five years ago the French Jeſuites had ſpeech
              <lb/>
            with ſome who remembred the building of Fernambuck, which was done an hundred
              <lb/>
            and twenty years ſince; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10985" xml:space="preserve">and they were then at Man’s eſtate.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10986" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10987" xml:space="preserve">Joannes de temporibus, who is reported to have extended his life to three hundred
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-12" xlink:href="note-0314-12a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note>
            years, being asked how he preſerved himſelf ſo long, is ſaid to have anſwered, By Oyl
              <lb/>
            without, and by Honey within.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10988" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10989" xml:space="preserve">The Iriſh, eſpecially the Wild-Iriſh, even at this day live very long: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10990" xml:space="preserve">certainly they
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-13" xlink:href="note-0314-13a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note>
            report, that within theſe few years the counteſs of Deſmond lived to an hundred and
              <lb/>
            forty years of age, and bred Teeth three times. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10991" xml:space="preserve">Now the Iriſh have a faſhion to chafe,
              <lb/>
            and, as it were, to baſte themſelves with old Salt-butter againſt the fire.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10992" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum