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

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            which ſhe deſireth to expel the foggy air drawn into the Lungs, and to take in new,
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            ſcarce the third part of a minute.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11685" xml:space="preserve">Again, the beating of the Pulſe, and the motion of the Syſtole and Diaſtole of the
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            heart, are three times quicker than that of breathing: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11686" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch that if it were poſſi-
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            ble that that motion of the heart could be ſtopped without ſtopping the breath, death
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            would follow more ſpedily there upon than by ſtrangling.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11688" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding, uſe and cuſtom prevail much in this natural action of breathing;
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            as it is in the Delian Divers and Fiſhers for Pearl, who by long uſe can hold their breaths
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            at leaſt ten times longer than other men can do.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11691" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt living Creatures, even of thoſe that have Lungs, there are ſome that are able
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            to hold their breaths a long time, and others that cannot hold them ſo long, according
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            as they need more or leſs refrigeration.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11693" xml:space="preserve">Fiſhes need leſs refrigeration that Terreſtrial Creatures, yet ſome they need, and
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            take it by their Gills. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11694" xml:space="preserve">And as Terreſtrial Creatures cannot bear the air that is too
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            hot or too cloſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11695" xml:space="preserve">ſo Fiſhes are ſuffocated in waters if they be totally and long
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            frozen.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11697" xml:space="preserve">If the Spirit be aſſaulted by another heat greater than it ſelf, it is diſſipated and de-
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            ſtroyed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11698" xml:space="preserve">for it cannot bear the proper beat without refrigeration, much leſs can it
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            bear another heat which is far ſtronger. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11699" xml:space="preserve">This is to be ſeen in burning-Fevers, where
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            the heat of the putrefied humours doth exceed the native heat, even to extinction or
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            diſſipation.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11701" xml:space="preserve">The want alſo and uſe of Sleep is referred to Refrigeration. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11702" xml:space="preserve">For Motion doth atte-
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            nuate and rarifie the ſpirit, and doth ſharpen and increaſe the heat thereof; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11703" xml:space="preserve">contra-
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            rily, sleep ſetleth and reſtraineth the motion and gadding of the ſame: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11704" xml:space="preserve">for though
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            Sleep doth ſtrengthen and advance the actions of the parts and of the liveleſs ſpi-
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            rits, and all that motion which is to the circumference of the body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11705" xml:space="preserve">yet it doth in
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            great part quiet and ſtill the proper motion of the living Spirit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11706" xml:space="preserve">Now ſleep regu-
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            larly is due unto humane nature once within four and twenty hours, and that for ſix
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            or five hours at the leaſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11707" xml:space="preserve">though there are, even in this kind, ſometimes miracles of
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            Nature; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11708" xml:space="preserve">as it is recorded of Mecanas, that he ſlept not for a long time before his
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            death. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11709" xml:space="preserve">And as touching the want of Refrigeration for conſerving of the Spirit thus
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            much.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11711" xml:space="preserve">As concerning the third Indigence, namely of Aliment, it ſeems to pertain rather to
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            the parts than to the living Spirit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11712" xml:space="preserve">for a man may eaſily believe that the living Spirit
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            ſubſiſteth in Identity, not by ſucceſſion or renovation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11713" xml:space="preserve">And as for the reaſonable Soul
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            in man, it is above all queſtion that it is not engendred of the Soul of the Parents, nor is
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            repaired, nor can die, They ſpeak of the Natural spirit of living Creatures, and alſo
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            of Vegetables, which differs from that other Soul eſſentially and formally. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11714" xml:space="preserve">For out of
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            the confuſion of theſe that ſame tranſmigration of Souls, and innumerable other devices
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            of Heathens and Hereticks have proceeded.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11716" xml:space="preserve">The Body of man doth regularly require Renovation by Aliment every day, and a
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            body in health can ſcarce endure faſting three days together; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11717" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding uſe and
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            cuſtome will do much even in this caſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11718" xml:space="preserve">but in ſickneſs faſting is leſs grievous to the
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            body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11719" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Sleep doth ſupply ſomewhat to nouriſhment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11720" xml:space="preserve">and on the other ſide
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            Exerciſe doth require it more abundantly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11721" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe there have ſome been found
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            who ſuſtained themſelves (almoſt to a miracle in nature) a very long time without
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            meat or drink.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11723" xml:space="preserve">Dead Bodies if they be not intercepted by putrefaction, will ſubſiſt a long time with-
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            out any notable Abſumption; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11724" xml:space="preserve">but Living bodies not above three days, (as we ſaid) un-
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            leſs they be repaired by nouriſhment: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11725" xml:space="preserve">which ſheweth that quick Abſumption to be
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            the work of the living spirit, which either repairs it ſelf, or puts the parts into a ne-
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            ceſſity of being repaired, or both. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11726" xml:space="preserve">This is teſtified by that alſo which was noted a little
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            before, namely, that living creatures may ſubſiſt ſomewhat the longer without Aliment
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            if they ſleep: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11727" xml:space="preserve">now ſleep is nothing elſe but a reception and retirement of the living
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            Spirit into it ſelf.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11729" xml:space="preserve">An abundant and continual effluxion of blood, which ſometimes happeneth in
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            the Hæmorrhoides, ſometimes in vomitting of blood, the inward Veins being
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            unlocked or broken, ſometimes by wounds, cauſeth ſudden death, in regard that
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            the bloud of the Veins miniſtreth to the Arteries, and the bloud of the Arteries
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            to the Spirit.</s>
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