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

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            little Camphire: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11077" xml:space="preserve">but in the declining age let the Housleek and Purslane be left out, and
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            the juices of Borrage and Endive, and the like, be put in their rooms. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11078" xml:space="preserve">And let theſe
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            Clyſters be retained, if it may be, for an hour or more.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11080" xml:space="preserve">The other is this, Let there be in uſe, eſpecially in Summer, Baths of freſh water,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-01" xlink:href="note-0317-01a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
            and but luke-warm, altogether without Emollients, as Mallows, Mercury, Milk, and
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            the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11081" xml:space="preserve">rather take new Whey in ſome good quantity, and Roſes.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11083" xml:space="preserve">But (that which is the principal in this intention, and new) we adviſe that before
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            the bathing of the body be anointed with Oil, with ſome thickneſs, whereby the quality
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            of the cooling may be received, and the water excluded: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11084" xml:space="preserve">yet let not the pores of the
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            body be ſhut too cloſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11085" xml:space="preserve">for when the outward cold cloſeth up the body too ſtrongly, it
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            is ſo far from furthering coolneſs, that it rather forbids, and ſtirs up heat.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11087" xml:space="preserve">Like unto this is the uſe of Bladders, with ſome decoctions and cooling juices, ap
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            plied to the inferiour region of the body, namely, from the ribbs to the privy parts;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11088" xml:space="preserve">for this alſo is a kind of bathing, where the body of the liquor is for the moſt part ex-
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            cluded, and the cooling quality admitted.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11090" xml:space="preserve">The third counſel remaineth, which belongeth not to the quality of the blood, but
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            to the ſubſtance thereof, that it may be made more firm and leſs diſſipable, and ſuch,
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            as the heat of the ſpirit may have the leſs power over it.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11092" xml:space="preserve">And as for the uſe of Filings of Gold, Leaf-gold, Powder of Pearl, Precious ſtones,
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            Coral, and the like, we have no opinion of them at this day, unleſs it be onely as they
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            may ſatisfie this preſent Operation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11093" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, ſeeing the Arabians, Grecians, and mo-
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            dern Phyſicians have attributed ſuch virtues to theſe things, it cannot be altogether
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            Nothing which ſo great men have obſerved of them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11094" xml:space="preserve">And therefore omitting all fan-
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            taſtical opinions about them, we do verily believe, that if there could be ſome ſuch
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            thing conveyed into the whole maſs of the bloud in minute and fine portions, over
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            which the ſpirits and heat ſhould have little or no power, abſolutely it would not only
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            reſiſt Putrefaction, but Arefaction alſo, and be a moſt effectual means to the prolonga-
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            tion of life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11095" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs in this thing ſeveral cautions are to be given. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11096" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that
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            there be a moſt exact comminution. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11097" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that ſuch hard and ſolid things be void
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            of all malignant qualities, leſt while they be diſperſed and lurk in the veins, they breed
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            ſome ill convenience. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11098" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, that they be never taken together with meats, nor
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            in any ſuch manner as they may ſtick long, leſt they beget dangerous obſtructions about
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            the Meſentery. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11099" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, that they be taken very rarely, that they may not congregate
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            and knot together in the veins.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11101" xml:space="preserve">Therefore let the manner of taking them be fasting, in white wine, a little Oil of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-06" xlink:href="note-0317-06a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note>
            Almonds mingled therewith, Exerciſe uſed immediately upon the taking of them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11103" xml:space="preserve">The Simples which may ſatisfie this Operation are, in ſtead of all, Gold, Pearls, and
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            Coral: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11104" xml:space="preserve">for all Mctalls, except Gold, are not without ſome malignant quality in the
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            diſſolutions of them, neither will they be beaten to that exquiſite fineneſs that Leaf-
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            gold hath. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11105" xml:space="preserve">As for all glaſſie and tranſparent Jewels, we like them not, (as we ſaid be-
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            fore) for fear of Corroſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11107" xml:space="preserve">But, in our judgment, the ſafer and more effectual way would be by the uſe of
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            woods in Infuſions and Decoctions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11108" xml:space="preserve">for there is in them ſufficient to cauſe firmneſs of
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            bloud, and not the like danger for breeding obſtructions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11109" xml:space="preserve">but eſpecially, becauſe they
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            may be taken in meat and drink, whereby they will find the more eaſie entrance into the
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            veins, and not be avoided in excrements.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11111" xml:space="preserve">The Woods fit for this purpoſe are Sanders, the Oak and Vine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11112" xml:space="preserve">As for all hot Woods
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            or ſomething Roſennie, we reject them: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11113" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding you may adde the woody
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            ſtalks of Roſemary dried, for Roſemary is a Shrub, and exceedeth in age many Trees;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11114" xml:space="preserve">alſo the woody ſtalks of Ivy, but in ſuch quantity as they may not yield an unpleaſing
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            taſte.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11116" xml:space="preserve">Let the Woods be taken either boiled in Broths, or infuſed in Muſt or Ale before
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            they leave working: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11117" xml:space="preserve">but in Broths (as the cuſtom is for Guaiacum and the like) they
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            would be infuſed a good while before the boiling, that the firmer part of the wood, and
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            not that onely which lieth looſely, may be drawn forth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11118" xml:space="preserve">As for Aſh, though it be uſed
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            for Cups, yet we like it not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11119" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Operation upon the Bloud thus much.</s>
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