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

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          <pb o="51" file="0329" n="329" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head101" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Purging away of old Juice, and Sup-
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          plying of new Juice; or of Renovation by Turns. 10.
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          The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11605" xml:space="preserve">ALthough thoſe things which we ſhall here ſet down have been, for themoſt part,
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            ſpoken of before; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11606" xml:space="preserve">yet becauſe this Operation is one of the principal, we will
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            handle them over again more at large.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11608" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that Draught-Oxen which have been worn out with working, being put
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0329-01" xlink:href="note-0329-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            into freſh and rich paſtures, will gather tender and young fleſh again: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11609" xml:space="preserve">and this will ap-
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            pear even to the taſte and palat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11610" xml:space="preserve">ſo that the Inteneration of fleſh is no hard matter.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11611" xml:space="preserve">Now it is likely that this Inteneration of the fleſh being often repeated, will in time reach
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            to the Inteneration of the Bones and Membranes, and like parts of the body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11613" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that Diets which are now much in uſe, principally of Guaiacum, and of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0329-02" xlink:href="note-0329-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
            Sarſaperilla, China, and Saſſafras, if they be continued for any time, and according to
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            ſtrict rules, do firſt attenuate the whole juice of the body, and after conſume it and
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            drink it up. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11614" xml:space="preserve">Which is moſt manifeſt, becauſe that by theſe Diets the French-Pox,
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            when it is grown even to an hardneſs, and hath eaten up and corrupted the very mar-
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            row of the body, may be effectually cured. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11615" xml:space="preserve">And further, becauſe it is manifeft that
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            men who by theſe diets are brought to be extream lean, pale, and as it were ghoſts,
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            will ſoon after become fat, well-coloured, and apparently young again. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11616" xml:space="preserve">Wherefore
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            we are abſolutely of opinion, that ſuch kind of diets in the decline of age, being uſed
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            every year, would be very uſeful to our Intention; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11617" xml:space="preserve">like the old skin or ſpoil of Ser-
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            pents.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11619" xml:space="preserve">We do confidently affirm, (neither let any man reckon us among thoſe Hereticks
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0329-03" xlink:href="note-0329-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            which were called Cathari) that often Purges, and made even familiar to the body, are
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            more available to long life than Exerciſes and Sweats: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11620" xml:space="preserve">and this muſt needs be ſo, if that
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            be held, which is already laid for aground, That Unctions of the body, and Oppletion
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            of the paſſages from without, and Excluſion of air, and Detaining of the ſpirit within
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            the maſs of the body, do much conduce to long life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11621" xml:space="preserve">For it is moſt certain, that by
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            Sweats and outward Perſpirations not only the Humours and excrementitious vapours
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            are exhaled and conſumed, but together with them the juices alſo and good ſpirits,
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            which are not ſo eaſily repaired: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11622" xml:space="preserve">but in Purges (unleſs they be very immoderate) it is
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            not ſo, ſeeing they work principally upon the Humors. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11623" xml:space="preserve">But the beſt Purges for this
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            Intention are thoſe which are taken immediately beforemeat, becauſe they dry the body
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            leſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11624" xml:space="preserve">and therefore they muſt be of thoſe Purgers which do leaſt trouble the belly.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11626" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Intentions of the Operations which we have propounded (as we conceive) are
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            moſt true, the Remedies faithful to the Intentions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11627" xml:space="preserve">Neither is it credible to be told (al-
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            though not a few of theſe Remedies may ſeem but vulgar) with what care and choice they
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            have been examined by us, that they might be (the Intention not at all impeached) both
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            ſafe and effectual Experience, no doubt, will both verifie and promote theſe matters.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11628" xml:space="preserve">And ſuch, in all things, are the works of every prudent counſel, that they are Admi-
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            rable in their Effects, Excellent alſo in their Order, but ſeeming Vulgar in the Way
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            and Means.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1584" type="section" level="1" n="69">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head102" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Porches of Death.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11630" xml:space="preserve">WE are now to enquire touching the Porches of Death, that is, touching thoſe things
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            which happen unto men at the point of Death, both a little before and after; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11631" xml:space="preserve">that
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            ſeeing there are many Paths which lead to Death, it may be under ſtood in what </s>
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