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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11516" xml:space="preserve">Not withſtanding, this cutting into pieces ſeems, in ſome ſort, to be uſeful; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11517" xml:space="preserve">not
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            with a knife, but with judgment. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11518" xml:space="preserve">For whereas the Conſiſtence of the Bowels and
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            Parts is very diverſe, it is needfull that the Inteneration of them both be not effected the
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            ſame way, but that there be a Cure deſigned of each in particular, beſides thoſe things
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            which pertain to the Inteneration of the whole maſs of the Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11519" xml:space="preserve">of which, notwith-
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            ſtanding, in the firſt place.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11521" xml:space="preserve">This Operation (if perhaps it be within our power) is moſt likely to be done by
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-02" xlink:href="note-0327-02a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            Baths, Unctions, and the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11522" xml:space="preserve">concerning which theſe things that follow are to be
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            obſerved.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11524" xml:space="preserve">We muſt not be too forward in hoping to accompliſh this matter from the Exam-
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            ples of thoſe things which we ſee done in the Imbibitions and Macerations of I
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            nani-
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            mates, by which they are intenerated, where of we introduced ſome inſtances before:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11525" xml:space="preserve">For this kind of operation is more eaſie upon Inanimates, becauſe they attract
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            and ſuck in the Liquor; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11526" xml:space="preserve">but upon the bodies of Living creatures it is har-
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            der, becauſe in them the motion rather tendeth outward and to the Circum-
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            ference.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11528" xml:space="preserve">Therefore the Emollient Baths which are in uſe do little good, but on the contrary
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            hurt, becauſe they rather draw forth than make entrance, and reſolve the ſtructure of
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            the body rather than conſolidate it.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11530" xml:space="preserve">The Baths and Unctions which may ſerve to the preſent Operation (namely, of Inte-
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            nerating the body truly and really) ought to have three properties.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11532" xml:space="preserve">The firſt and principal is, That they conſiſt of thoſe tlings which in their whole
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            ſubſtance are like unto the body and fleſh of man, and which have a feeding and nurſing
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            virtue from without.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11534" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, That they be mixed with ſuch things as through the ſubtilty of their
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            parts may make entrance, and ſo inſinuate and conveigh their nouriſhing virtue into the
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            body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11536" xml:space="preserve">The third is, That they receive ſome mixture (though much inferiour to the reſt)
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            of ſuch things as are Aſtringent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11537" xml:space="preserve">I mean not ſour or tart things, but unctuous and
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            comforting; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11538" xml:space="preserve">that while the other two do operate, the exhaling out of the body, which
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            deſtroyeth the virtue of the things intenerating, may (as much as is poſſible) be pro-
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            hibited; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11539" xml:space="preserve">and the motion to the in ward parts, by the Aſtriction of the skin and cloſing
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            of the paſſages, may be promoted and furthered.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11541" xml:space="preserve">That which is moſt conſubſtantial to the body of man is warm Bloud, either of man,
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            or of ſome other living creature: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11542" xml:space="preserve">but the device of Ficinus, touching the ſucking of
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            bloud out of the arm of a wholeſome young man, for the reſtauration of ſtrength in
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            old men, is very frivolous; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11543" xml:space="preserve">for that which nouriſheth from within ought no way to
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            be equal or homogeneal to the body nouriſhed, but in ſome ſort inferiour and ſubor-
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            dinate, that it may be converted: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11544" xml:space="preserve">but in things applied out wardly, by how much the
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            ſubſtance is liker, by ſo much the conſent is better.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11546" xml:space="preserve">It hath been anciently received, that a Bath made of the bloud of Infants will cure the
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            Leproſie, and heal the fleſh already putrefi’d; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11547" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch that this thing hath begot envy
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            towards ſome Kings from the common people.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11549" xml:space="preserve">It is reported that Heraclitus, for cure of the Dropſie, was put into the warmbelly of an
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            Ox newly ſlain.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11551" xml:space="preserve">They uſe the bloud of Kitlins warm to cure the diſeaſe called St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11552" xml:space="preserve">Anthony’s Fire, and
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            to reſtore the fleſh and skin.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11554" xml:space="preserve">An Arm or other Member newly cut off, or that upon ſome other occaſion will not
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            leave bleeding, is with good ſucceſs put into the belly of ſome creatures newly ripped up,
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            for it worketh potently to ſtanch the bloud; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11555" xml:space="preserve">the bloud of the member cut off by con-
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            ſent ſucking in, and vehemently drawing to it ſelf, the warm bloud of the creature ſlain,
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            where by it ſelf is ſtopped and retireth.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11557" xml:space="preserve">It is much uſed in extreme and deſperate diſeaſes to cut in two young Pigeons, yet
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            living, and apply them to the ſoles of the feet, and to ſhift them one after another,
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            where by ſometime there followeth a wonderful eaſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11558" xml:space="preserve">This is imputed vulgarly as if
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            they ſhould draw down the malignity of the diſeaſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11559" xml:space="preserve">but howſoever, this application
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            goeth to the Head, and comforteth the Animal Spirits.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11561" xml:space="preserve">But theſe bloudy Baths and Unctions ſeem to us ſluttiſh and odious: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11562" xml:space="preserve">let us ſearch
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            out ſome others, which perhaps have leſs loathſomeneſs in them, and yet no leſs
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            benefit.</s>
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