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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10993" xml:space="preserve">The ſame Iriſh uſe to wear Saffroned Linen and Shirts: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10994" xml:space="preserve">which though it were at
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            firſt deviſed to prevent Vermin, yet howſoever I take it to be very uſeful for length-
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            ning of life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10995" xml:space="preserve">for Saffron, of all things that I know, is the beſt thing for the skin,
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            and the comforting of the fleſh, ſeeing it is both notably Aſtringent, and hath beſides
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            an Oleoſity and ſubtle heat, without any Acrimony. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10996" xml:space="preserve">I remember a certain Engliſhman,
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            who when he went to Sea carried a bagg of Saffron next his ſtomack, that he might
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            conceal it, and ſo eſcape Cuſtom; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10997" xml:space="preserve">and whereas he was wont to be always exceed-
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            ing Sea-ſick, at that time he continued very well, and felt no provocation to
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            vomit.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10998" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10999" xml:space="preserve">Hippocrates adviſeth in Winter to wear clean Linen, and in Summer foul Linen and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-02" xlink:href="note-0315-02a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note>
            beſineared with Oil. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11000" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon may ſeem to be, becauſe in Summer the Spirits ex-
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            hale moſt, therefore the pores of the skin would be filled up.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11002" xml:space="preserve">Hereupon we are of opinion, that the uſe of Oil, either of Olives or ſweet Al-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-03" xlink:href="note-0315-03a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note>
            monds, to anoint the skin therewith, would principally conduce to long life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11003" xml:space="preserve">The
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            anointing would be done every morning when we riſe out of bed, with Oil in which a
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            little Bay-ſalt and Saffron is mixed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11004" xml:space="preserve">But this anointing muſt be lightly done with
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            Wool, or ſome ſoft ſponge, not laying it on thick, but gently touching and wet-
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            ting the skin.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11005" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11006" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that Liquors, even the Oily themſelves, in great quantities draw ſome-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-04" xlink:href="note-0315-04a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note>
            what from the body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11007" xml:space="preserve">but contrarily, in ſmall quantities are drunk in by the body: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11008" xml:space="preserve">there-
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            fore the anointing would be but light, as we ſaid, or rather the ſhirt it ſelf would be be-
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            ſmeared with Oil.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11009" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11010" xml:space="preserve">It may happily be objected, that this anointing with Oil, which we commend,
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            (though it were never in uſe with us, and amongſt the Italians is caſt off again)
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            was anciently very familiar amongſt the Grecians and Romans, and a part of their Diet;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11011" xml:space="preserve">and yet men were not longer-liv’d in thoſe dayes than now. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11012" xml:space="preserve">But it may rightly be an-
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            ſwered, Oil was in uſe onely after Baths, unleſs it were perhaps amongſt Champi-
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            ons: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11013" xml:space="preserve">now hot Baths are as much contrary to our operation, as Anointings are
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            congruous, ſeeing the one opens the paſſages, the other ſtops them up: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11014" xml:space="preserve">therefore
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            the Bath, without the anointing following, is utterly bad; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11015" xml:space="preserve">the anointing without the
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            Bath is beſt of all. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11016" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the anointing amongſt them was uſed onely for delicacy,
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            or (if you take it at the beſt) for health, but by no means in order to long life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11017" xml:space="preserve">and
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            therefore they uſed them with all precious Ointments, which were good for deliciouſ-
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            neſs, but hurtful to our intention, in regard of their heat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11018" xml:space="preserve">So that Virgil ſeemeth not to
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            have ſaid amiſs,</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11019" xml:space="preserve">----Nec Caſiâ liquidi corrumpitur uſus Olivi,
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            That odoriferous Caſia hath not ſupplanted the uſe of neat Oil-Olive.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11021" xml:space="preserve">Anointing with Oil conduceth to health, both in Winter, by the excluſion of the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-06" xlink:href="note-0315-06a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note>
            cold Air, and in Summer, by detaining the ſpirits within, and prohibiting the Re-
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            ſolution of them, and keeping off the force of the air which is then moſt pre-
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            datory.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11023" xml:space="preserve">Seeing the anointing with Oil is one of the moſt potent operations to long life, we
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            have thought good to add ſome cautions, left the health ſhould be endangered: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11024" xml:space="preserve">They
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            are four, according to the four Inconveniences which may follow thereupon.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11026" xml:space="preserve">The firſt Ine
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            onvenience is, that by repreſſing ſweats, it may ingender diſeaſes from
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            thoſe excrementitious humours. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11027" xml:space="preserve">To this a remedy muft be given by Purges and Cly-
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            ſters, that evacuation may be duly performed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11028" xml:space="preserve">This is certain, that evacuation by
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            ſweats commonly advanceth health, and derogateth from long life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11029" xml:space="preserve">butgentle Purgers
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            work upon the humours, not upon the ſpirits, as ſweat doth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11031" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond Inconvenience is, that it may heat the body, and in time inflame it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11032" xml:space="preserve">for
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            the ſpirits ſhut in, and not breathing forth, acquire heat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11033" xml:space="preserve">This inconvenience may be
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            prevented, if the Diet moſt uſually incline to the colder part, and that at times ſome
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            proper cooling Medicines be taken, of which we ſhall ſtraight ſpeak in the operation
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            upon the Bloud.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11035" xml:space="preserve">The third is, that it may annoy the head; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11036" xml:space="preserve">for all Oppletion from without ſtrikes back
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            the vapours, and ſends them up unto the head. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11037" xml:space="preserve">This inconvenience is remedied by
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            Purgers, eſpecially Clyſters, and by ſhutting the mouth of the ſtomach ſtrongly with
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            Stipticks, and by combing and rubbing the head, and by waſhing it with convenient
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            Lies, that ſomething may exhale, and by not omitting competent and good exerciſes,
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            that ſomething alſo may perſpire by the skin.</s>
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