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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head90" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Juices of the Body. 4.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head91" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11121" xml:space="preserve">THere are two kinds of Bodies (as was ſaid before in the Inquiſition touching In-
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            animates) which are hardly conſumed, Hard things and Fat things; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11122" xml:space="preserve">as is
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            ſeen in Metalls and Stones, and in Oil and Wax.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11124" xml:space="preserve">It muft be ordered therefore, that the juice of the body be ſomewhat hard, and that it
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-02" xlink:href="note-0318-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
            be fatty or ſubroſcid.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11126" xml:space="preserve">As for bardneſs, it is cauſed three ways: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11127" xml:space="preserve">by Aliment of a firm nature, by Cold con-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-03" xlink:href="note-0318-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            denſing the skin and fleſh, and by Exerciſe, binding and compacting the juices of the
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            body, that they be not ſoft and frothy.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11129" xml:space="preserve">As for the Nature of the Aliment, it ought to be ſuch as is not eaſily diſſipable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11130" xml:space="preserve">ſuch
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-04" xlink:href="note-0318-04a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
            as are Beef, Swine’s-fleſh, Dear, Goat, Kid, Swan, Gooſe, Ring-dove, eſpecially if they be a
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            little powdred; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11131" xml:space="preserve">Fiſh likewiſe ſalted and dried, Old Cheeſe, and the like.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11133" xml:space="preserve">As for the Bread; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11134" xml:space="preserve">Oaten-bread, or bread with ſome mixture of Peaſe in it, or Rye-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-05" xlink:href="note-0318-05a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note>
            bread, or Barly-bread, are more ſolid than Wheat-bread, and in Wheat-bread, the
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            courſe Wheat-bread is more ſolid than the pure Manchet.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11136" xml:space="preserve">The Inhabitants of the Orcades, which live upon ſalted fiſh, and generally all Fiſh-eaters,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-06" xlink:href="note-0318-06a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note>
            are long liv’d.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11138" xml:space="preserve">The Monks and Hermites which fed ſparingly, and upon dry Aliment, attained com-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-07" xlink:href="note-0318-07a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note>
            monly to a great age.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11140" xml:space="preserve">Alſo pure Water uſually drunk makes the juices of the body leſs frothy? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11141" xml:space="preserve">unto which
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-08" xlink:href="note-0318-08a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note>
            if, for the dulneſs of the ſpirits, (which no doubt in VVater are but a little penetrative)
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            you ſhall adde a little Nitre, we conceive it would be very good. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11142" xml:space="preserve">And touching the
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            firmneſs of the Aliment thus much.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11144" xml:space="preserve">As for the Condenſation of the skin and fleſh by Cold: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11145" xml:space="preserve">They are longer-liv’d for the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-09" xlink:href="note-0318-09a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note>
            moſt part that live abroad in the open air, than they that live in Houſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11146" xml:space="preserve">and the Inha-
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            bitants of the cold Countries, than the Inhabitants of the hot.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11148" xml:space="preserve">Great ſtore of clothes, either upon the bed or back, do reſolve the body.</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">10.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11150" xml:space="preserve">Waſhing the body in Cold Water is good for length of life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11151" xml:space="preserve">uſe of hot Baths is naught.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11152" xml:space="preserve">
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-11" xlink:href="note-0318-11a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note>
            Touching Baths of Aſtringent Mineral Waters we have ſpoken before.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11154" xml:space="preserve">As for Exerciſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11155" xml:space="preserve">an idle life doth manifeſtly make the fleſh ſoft and diſſipable: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11156" xml:space="preserve">robuſt
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-12" xlink:href="note-0318-12a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note>
            exerciſe (ſo it be without over-much ſweating or wearineſs) maketh it hard and com-
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            pact. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11157" xml:space="preserve">Alſo exerciſe within cold Water, as ſwimming, is very good; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11158" xml:space="preserve">and generally
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            exerciſe abroad is better than that within houſes.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11160" xml:space="preserve">Touching Frications, (which are a kind of exerciſe) becauſe they do rather call forth
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-13" xlink:href="note-0318-13a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note>
            the Aliment than harden the fleſh, we will inquire hereafter in the due place.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11162" xml:space="preserve">Having now ſpoken of hardning the juices of the body, we are to come next to the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-14" xlink:href="note-0318-14a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note>
            Oleoſity and Fattineſs of them, which is a more perfect and potent Intention than Indu-
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            ration, becauſe it hath no inconvenience or evil annexed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11163" xml:space="preserve">For all thoſe things which
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            pertain to the hardning of the juices are of that nature, that while they prohibit the
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            abſumption of the Aliment, they alſo hinder the operation of the ſame; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11164" xml:space="preserve">whereby it
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            happens, that the ſame things are both propitious and adverſe to length of life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11165" xml:space="preserve">but thoſe
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            things which pertain to making the Juices Oily and Roſcid, help on both ſides, for they
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            render the Aliment both leſs diſſipable, and more reparable.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11167" xml:space="preserve">But whereas we ſay that the Juice of the body ought to be Roſcid and Fat, it is to be
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-15" xlink:href="note-0318-15a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note>
            noted that we mean it not of a viſible Fat, but of a Dewineſs diſperſed, or (if you will
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            call it) Radical in the very ſubſtance of the body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11169" xml:space="preserve">Neither again let any man think, that Oil or the Fat of Meats or Marrow do engen-
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            der the like, and ſatisfie our intention: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11170" xml:space="preserve">for thoſe things which are once perfect are
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            not brought back again; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11171" xml:space="preserve">but the Aliments ought to be ſuch, which after digeſtion
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            and maturation do then in the end engender Olcoſity in the Juices.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11173" xml:space="preserve">Neither again let any man think, that Oil or Fat by it ſelf and ſimple is hard of diſſi-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-17" xlink:href="note-0318-17a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note>
            pation, but in mixture it doth not retain the ſame nature: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11174" xml:space="preserve">for as Oil by it ſelf is much
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            more longer in conſuming then VVater; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11175" xml:space="preserve">ſo in Paper or Linnen it ſticke
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            th longer, and
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            is later dried, as we noted be
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            fore.</s>
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