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

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          <pb o="38" file="0316" n="316" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11039" xml:space="preserve">The fourth Inconvenience is a more ſubtil Evil, namely, that the Spirit being
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-01" xlink:href="note-0316-01a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note>
            detained by the cloſing up of the Pores, is likely to multiply it ſelf too much; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11040" xml:space="preserve">for when
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            little iſſueth forth, and new Spirit is continually ingendred, the Spirit in creaſeth too
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            faſt, and ſo preyeth upon the body more plentifully. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11041" xml:space="preserve">But this is not altogether ſo;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11042" xml:space="preserve">for all Spirit cloſed up is dull, (for it is blown and excited with motion as Flame is)
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            and therefore it is leſs active, and leſs generative of it ſelf: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11043" xml:space="preserve">Indeed it is thereby in-
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            creaſed in Heat, (as Flame is) but flow in Motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11044" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the remedy to
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            this inconvenience muſt be by cold things, being ſometimes mixed with Oil, ſuch
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            as are Roſes and Myrtles; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11045" xml:space="preserve">for we muſt altogether diſclaim hot things, as we ſaid of
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            Caſſia.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11047" xml:space="preserve">Neither will it be unprofitable to wear next the body Garments that have in
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-02" xlink:href="note-0316-02a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note>
            them ſome Unctuoſity or Oleoſity, not Aquoſity, for they will exhauſt the body
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            leſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11048" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as are thoſe of Woollen rather than thoſe of Linen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11049" xml:space="preserve">Certainly it is
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            manifeſt in the Spirits of Odours, that if you lay ſwe@t powders amongſt Li-
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            nen, they will much ſooner loſe their ſmell than amongſt Woollen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11050" xml:space="preserve">And there-
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            fore Linen is to be preferred for delicacy and neatneſs, but to be ſuſpected for our
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            Operation.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11051" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11052" xml:space="preserve">The Wild Iriſh, as ſoon as they fall ſick, the firſt thing they do is to take the ſheets
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-03" xlink:href="note-0316-03a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note>
            off their beds, and to wrap themſelves in the woollen cloaths.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11054" xml:space="preserve">Some report, that they have found great benefit in the conſervation of their health
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-04" xlink:href="note-0316-04a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note>
            by wearing scarlet Waſcoats next their skin, and under their ſhirts, as well down to
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            the neather parts as on the upper.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11056" xml:space="preserve">It is alſo to be obſerved, that Air accuſtomed to the body doth leſs prey upon it
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            than new Air and often changed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11057" xml:space="preserve">and therefore poor people, in ſmall Cottages, who
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            live always within the ſmell of the ſame chimney, and change not their ſeats, are
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            commonly longeſt liv’d: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11058" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding, to other operations (eſpecially for them
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            whoſe Spirits are not altogether dull) we judge change of air to be very profitable;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11059" xml:space="preserve">but a mean muſt be uſed, which may ſatisfie on both ſides. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11060" xml:space="preserve">This may be done by re-
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            moving our habitation four times a year, at conſtant and ſet times, unto convenient
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            ſeats, that ſo the body may neither be in too much peregrination, nor in too much
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            ſtation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11061" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Operation upon the Excluſion of Air, and avoiding the
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            predatory force thereof, thus much.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head88" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Bloud, and the
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          Sanguifying Heat. 3.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head89" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11063" xml:space="preserve">THE following Operations anſwer to the two precedent, and are in the re-
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            lation of Paſfives and Actives: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11064" xml:space="preserve">for the two precedent intend this, that
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            the Spirits and Air in their actions may be the leſs depredatory; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11065" xml:space="preserve">and the
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            two latter, that the Bloud and Juice of the body may be the leſs depredable.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11066" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe the Bloud is an irrigation or watering of the Juices and Members, and a
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            preparation to them, therefore we will put the operation upon the Bloud in the firſt
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            place. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11067" xml:space="preserve">Concerning this Operation we will propound certain Counſels, few in number,
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            but very powerful in virtue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11068" xml:space="preserve">They are three.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11070" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, there is no doubt, but that if the bloud be brought to a cold temper, it
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            will be ſo much the leſs diſſipable. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11071" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe the cold things which are taken
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            by the mouth agree but ill with many other Intentions, therefore it will be beſt
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            to find out ſome ſuch things as may be free from theſe inconveniences. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11072" xml:space="preserve">They
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            are two.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11074" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is this: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11075" xml:space="preserve">Let there be brought into uſe, efpecially in youth, Clyſters, not
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-08" xlink:href="note-0316-08a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            purging at all, or abſterging, but onely cooling, and ſome what opening: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11076" xml:space="preserve">@hoſe are
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            approved which are made of the Juices of Lettuce, Purſlane, Liver-wort, Houſesleek, and
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            the Mucilage of the ſeed of Flea-wort, with ſome temperate opening decoction, and </s>
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