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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11352" xml:space="preserve">As for the Brain, where the Seat and Court of the Animal spirits is kept, thoſe things
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-01" xlink:href="note-0323-01a" xml:space="preserve">40.</note>
            which were inquired before touching Opium, and Nitre, and the Subor dinates to them
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            both, alſo touching the procuring of placid ſleep, may likewiſe be referred hither. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11353" xml:space="preserve">This
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            alſo is moſt certain, that the Brain is in ſome ſort in the cuſtody of the Stomach; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11354" xml:space="preserve">and
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            therefore thoſe things which comfort and ſtrengthen the Stomach do help the Brain
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            by conſent, and may no leſs be transferred hither. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11355" xml:space="preserve">We will adde a few Obſervations,
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            three Outward, one Inward.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11357" xml:space="preserve">We would have bathing of the Feet to be often uſed, at leaſt once in a week; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11358" xml:space="preserve">and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-02" xlink:href="note-0323-02a" xml:space="preserve">41.</note>
            the Bath to be made of Lye with Bay-ſalt, and a little Sage, chamomile, Fennel, Sweet-
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            marjoram, and Pepper-wort, with the leaves of Angellica green.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11360" xml:space="preserve">We commend alſo a Fume or Suffumigation every morning of dried Roſemary, Bay-
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            leaves dried, and Lignum-Aloes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11361" xml:space="preserve">for all ſweet Gums oppreſs the head.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11363" xml:space="preserve">Eſpecially care muſt be taken that no bot things be applied to the Head outwardly;
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            </s>
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-04" xlink:href="note-0323-04a" xml:space="preserve">43.</note>
            ſuch are all kind of Spices, the very Nutmeg not excepted: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11365" xml:space="preserve">for thoſe hot things we
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            debaſe them to the ſoles of the Feet, and would have them applied there onely; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11366" xml:space="preserve">but a
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            light anointing of the Head with Oil, mixed with Roſes, Myrtle, and a little Salt and Saf-
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            fron, we much commend.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11368" xml:space="preserve">Not forgetting thoſe things which we have before delivered touching Opiates, Nitre,
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            and the like, which ſo much condenſe the spirits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11369" xml:space="preserve">we think it not impertinent to that
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            effect, that once in fourteen days Broth be taken in the morning with three or four grains
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            of Caſtoreum, and a little Angelica-ſeed, and Calamus, which both fortifie the Brain, and
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            in that aforeſaid denſity of the ſubſtance of the ſpirits, (ſo neceſſary to long life) adde
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            alſo a vivacity of motion and vigour to them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11371" xml:space="preserve">In handling the Comforters of the four principal Be
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            wels, we have propounded thoſe
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            things which are both proper and choice, and may ſafely and conveniently be tranſ-
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            ferred into Diets and Regiment of Life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11372" xml:space="preserve">for variety of Medicines is the Daughter of
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            Ignorance; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11373" xml:space="preserve">and it is not more true, that many Diſhes have cauſed many Diſeaſes, as the
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            Proverb is, than this is true, that many Medicines have cauſed few Cures. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11374" xml:space="preserve">And touch-
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            ing the Operation upon the principal Bowels for their Extruſion of Aliment, thus
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            much.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head94" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Outward Parts for their
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          Attraction of Aliment. 6.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head95" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11376" xml:space="preserve">ALthough a good Concoction perſormed by the Inward Parts be the principal to-
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            wards a perfect Alimentation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11377" xml:space="preserve">yet the Actions of the Outward Parts ought
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            alſo to concur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11378" xml:space="preserve">that like as the Inward Faculty ſendeth forth and extrudeth the
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            Aliment, ſo the Faculty of the Outward Parts may call forth and attract the ſame: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11379" xml:space="preserve">and
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            the more weak the Faculty of Concoction ſhall be, the more need is there of a concurring
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            help of the Attractive Faculty.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11381" xml:space="preserve">A ſtrong Attraction of the outward parts is chiefly cauſed by the motion of the Body,
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            by which the parts being heated and comforted, do more chearſully call forth and attract
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            the Aliment unto themſelves.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11383" xml:space="preserve">But this is moſt of all to be foreſeen and avoided, that the ſame motion and heat which
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            calls the new juice to the members, doth not again deſpoil the member of that juice
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            wherewith it had been before refreſhed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11385" xml:space="preserve">Frications uſed in the morning ſerve eſpecially to this Intention: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11386" xml:space="preserve">but this muſt
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            evermore accompany them, that after the Frication the part be lightly anointed with
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            Oil, leſt the Attrition of the outward parts make them by Perſpiration dry and
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            juiceleſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11388" xml:space="preserve">The next is Exerciſe, (by which the parts confricate and chafe themſelves) ſo it
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