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

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              <pb o="55" file="0333" n="333" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
            Executioner’s hand for high Treaſon, after his Heart was plucked out and in the Exe-
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            cutioner’s hand, was heard to utter three or four words of prayer: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11775" xml:space="preserve">which therefore
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            we ſaid to be more credible than that of the Ox
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            in sacrifice, becauſe the friends of the
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            party ſuffering do uſually give a reward to the Executioner to diſpatch his office with
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            the more ſpeed, that they may the ſooner be rid of their pain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11776" xml:space="preserve">but in Sacrifices we
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            ſee no cauſe why the Prieſt ſhould be ſo ſpeedy in his office.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11778" xml:space="preserve">For reviving thoſe again which fall into ſudden Swooning and Catalepſes of aſtoniſh-
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            ments, (in which Fits many, without preſent help, would utterly expire) theſe things
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            are uſed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11779" xml:space="preserve">Putting into their mouths Water diſtilled of Wine, which they call Hot-
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            waters, and Cordial-Waters, bending the body forwards, ſtopping the mouth and noſtrils
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            hard, bending or wringing the fingers, pulling the hairs of the beard or head, rubbing
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            of the parts, eſpecially the face and legs, ſudden caſting of cold water upon the face,
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            ſhrieking out aloud and ſuddenly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11780" xml:space="preserve">putting Roſe-water to the noſtrills with Vinegar in
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            faintings; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11781" xml:space="preserve">burning of Feathers or Cloth in the ſuffocation of the Mother: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11782" xml:space="preserve">but eſpe-
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            cially a Frying-pan heated red hot is good in Apoplexies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11783" xml:space="preserve">alſo a cloſe embracing o
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            f the
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            body hath helped ſome.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11785" xml:space="preserve">There have been many examples of men in ſhew dead, either laid out upon the
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            cold floor, or carried forth to burial; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11786" xml:space="preserve">nay, of ſome buried in the earth, which not-
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            withſtanding have lived again, which hath been found in thoſe that were buried (the
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            earth being afterwards opened) by the bruiſing and wounding of their head, through
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            the ſtrugling of the body within the Coffin; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11787" xml:space="preserve">whereof the moſt recent and memo-
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            rable example was that of Foannes scotus, called the Subtil, and a School-man, who
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            being digged up again by his Servant, (unfortunately abſent at his burial, and who
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            knew his Maſters manner in ſuch fits) was found in that ſtate: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11788" xml:space="preserve">And the like happened
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            in our days in the perſon of a Player, buried at Cambridge. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11789" xml:space="preserve">I remember to have heard
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            of a certain Gentleman, that would needs make trial in curioſity what men did feel that
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            were hanged; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11790" xml:space="preserve">ſo he faſtened the Cord about his neck, raiſing himſelf upon a ſtool, and
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            then letting himſelf fall, thinking it ſhould be in his power to recover the ſtool at
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            his pleaſure, which he failed in, but was helped by a friend then preſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11791" xml:space="preserve">He was
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            asked aſterward what he felt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11792" xml:space="preserve">He ſaid he felt no pain, but firſt he thought he ſaw before
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            his eyes a great fire and burning; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11793" xml:space="preserve">then he thought he ſaw all black and dark; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11794" xml:space="preserve">laſtly
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            it turned to a pale blew, or Sea-water green; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11795" xml:space="preserve">which colour is alſo often ſeen by them
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            which fall into Swoonings. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11796" xml:space="preserve">I have heard alſo of a Phyſician, yet living, who reco-
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            vered a man to life which had hanged himſelf, and had hanged half an hour, by Fri-
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            cations and hot Baths: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11797" xml:space="preserve">And the ſame Phyſician did profeſs, that he made no doubt to
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            recover any man that had hanged ſo long, ſo his Neck were not broken with the firſt
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            ſwing.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head104" xml:space="preserve">The Differences of Youth and Old Age.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11799" xml:space="preserve">THe Ladder of Man’s Body is this, To be conceived, to be quickned in the womb,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0333-03" xlink:href="note-0333-03a" xml:space="preserve">To the 16
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              Article.</note>
            to be born, to ſuck, to be weaned, to feed upon Pap, to put forth Teeth the
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            firſt time about the ſecond year of age, to begin to go, to begin to ſpeak, to
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            put forth Teeth the ſecond time about ſeven years of age, to come to Puberty about
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            twelve or fourteen years of age, to be able for generation and the flowing of the Men-
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            ſtrua, to have hairs about the legs and arm-holes, to put forth a Beard; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11800" xml:space="preserve">and thus long,
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            and ſometimes later, to grow in ſtature, to come to full years of ſtrength and agility, to
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            grow gray and bald; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11801" xml:space="preserve">the Menſtrua ceaſing, and ability to generation, to grow decrepit
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            and a monſter with three legs, to die. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11802" xml:space="preserve">Mean-while the Mind alſo hath certain periods,
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            but they cannot be deſcribed by years, as to decay in the Memory, and the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11803" xml:space="preserve">of
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            which hereafter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11805" xml:space="preserve">The differences of Youth and old Age are theſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11806" xml:space="preserve">A young man’s skin is ſmooth
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            and plain, an old man’s dry and wrinkled, eſpecially about the forehead and eyes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11807" xml:space="preserve">a
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            young man’s fleſh is tender and ſoft, an old man’s hard; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11808" xml:space="preserve">a young man hath ſtrength
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            and agility, an old man feels decay in his ſtrength and is ſlow of motion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11809" xml:space="preserve">a young </s>
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