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

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              <pb o="52" file="0330" n="330" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
            way they all end, eſpecially in thoſe Deaths which are cauſed by Indigence of Nature
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            rather than by Violence: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11632" xml:space="preserve">although ſomething of this latter alſo muſt be inſerted, becauſe
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            of the connexion of things.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head103" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11634" xml:space="preserve">THe living Spirit ſtands in need of three things that it may ſubſiſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11635" xml:space="preserve">Convenient
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-01" xlink:href="note-0330-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            Motion, Temperate Refrigeration, and Fit Aliment. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11636" xml:space="preserve">Flame ſeems to ſtand in
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            need but of two of theſe, namely, Motion and Aliment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11637" xml:space="preserve">becauſe Flame is a
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            ſimple ſubſtance, the Spirit a compounded, inſomuch that if it approach ſome what too
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            near to a flamy nature, it overthroweth it ſelf.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11639" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Flame by a greater and ſtronger Flame is extinguiſhed and ſlain, as Ariſtotle well
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            noted, much more the Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11641" xml:space="preserve">Flame, if it be much compreſſed and ſtreightned, is extinguiſhed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11642" xml:space="preserve">as we may ſee in.
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-03" xlink:href="note-0330-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            a Candle having a Glaſs caſt over it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11644" xml:space="preserve">for the Air being dilated by the heat, doth con-
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            trude and thruſt together the Flame, and ſo leſſeneth it, and in the end extinguiſheth it;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11645" xml:space="preserve">and fires on hearths will not flame if the fuel be thruſt cloſe together without any ſpace
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            for the flame to break forth.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11647" xml:space="preserve">Alſo things fired are extinguiſhed with compreſſion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11648" xml:space="preserve">as if you preſs a burning coal
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            hard with the Tongs or the foot, it is ſtreight extinguiſhed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11650" xml:space="preserve">But to come to the Spirit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11651" xml:space="preserve">if Bloud or Phlegm get into the Ventricles of the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-05" xlink:href="note-0330-05a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note>
            Brain, it cauſeth ſudden death, becauſe the Spirit hath no room to move it
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            ſelf.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11653" xml:space="preserve">Alſo a great blow on the head induceth ſudden death, the Spirits being ſtreightned
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-06" xlink:href="note-0330-06a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note>
            within the Ventricles of the Brain.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11655" xml:space="preserve">Opium and other ſtrong Stupefactives do coagulate the Spirit, and deprive it of the
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            motion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11657" xml:space="preserve">A venemous Vapour, totally abhorred by the ſpirit, cauſeth ſudden death: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11658" xml:space="preserve">as in deadly
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            poiſons, which work (as they call it) by a ſpecifical malignity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11659" xml:space="preserve">for they ſtrike a loath-
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            ing into the Spirit, that the ſpirit will no more move it ſelf, nor riſe againſt a thing ſo
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            much deteſted.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11661" xml:space="preserve">Alſo extreme Drunkenneſs or extreme Feeding ſometime cauſe ſudden death,
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            ſeeing the ſpirit is not onely oppreſſed with over much condenſing, or the malignity
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            of the vapour, (as in Opium and malignant poiſons) but alſo with the abundance of
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            the Vapours.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11663" xml:space="preserve">Extreme Grief or Fear, eſpecially if they be ſudden, (as it is in a ſad and unexpected
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            meſſage) cauſe ſudden death.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11665" xml:space="preserve">Not onely over-much Compreſſion, but alſo over-much Dilatation of the ſpirit, is
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            deadly.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11667" xml:space="preserve">Joys exceſſive and ſudden have bereft many of their lives.</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">12.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11669" xml:space="preserve">In greater Evacuations, as when they cut men for the Drepſie, the waters flow forth
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-13" xlink:href="note-0330-13a" xml:space="preserve">13</note>
            abundantly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11670" xml:space="preserve">much more in great and ſudden fluxes of bloud oftentimes preſent
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            death followeth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11671" xml:space="preserve">and this happens by the mere flight of Vacuum within the body,
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            all the parts moving to fill the empty placcs, and amongſt the reſt the ſpirits
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            themſelves. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11672" xml:space="preserve">For as for ſlow fluxes of blood, this matter pertains to the indigence
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            of nouriſhment, not to the diffuſion of the ſpirits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11673" xml:space="preserve">And touching the motion
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            of the ſpirit ſo far, either compreſſed or diffuſed, that it bringeth death, thus
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            much.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11675" xml:space="preserve">We muſt come next to the want of Refrigeration. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11676" xml:space="preserve">Stopping of the breath cauſeth
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            ſudden death, as in all ſuffocation or ſtrangling. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11677" xml:space="preserve">Now it ſeems this matter is not ſo
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            much to be referred to the impediment of Motion, as to the impediment of Refri-
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            geration; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11678" xml:space="preserve">for air over-hot, though attracted freely, doth no leſs ſuffocate than if
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            breathing were hindred; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11679" xml:space="preserve">as it is in them who have been ſometime ſuffocated with
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            burning coals, or with char-coal, or with walls newly plaiſtered in cloſe chambers
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            where a fire is made: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11680" xml:space="preserve">which kind of death is reported to have been the end of the
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            Emperor Jovinian. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11681" xml:space="preserve">The like happeneth from dry Baths over heated, which was pra-
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            ctiſed in the killing of Fauſta, wifeto Conſtantine the Great.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11683" xml:space="preserve">It is a very ſmall time which Nature taketh to repeat the breathing, and in
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