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

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          <pb o="62" file="0340" n="340" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1660" type="section" level="1" n="109">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head143" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12062" xml:space="preserve">THe nature of the spirits is as the uppermoſt wheel, which turneth about the other
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            wheels in the body of man, and therefore in the Intention of Long life, that ought
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            to be firſt placed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12063" xml:space="preserve">Hereunto may be added, that there is an eaſier and more expedite
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            way to alter the ſpirits, than to other Operations. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12064" xml:space="preserve">For the Operation upon the spirits is
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            two-fold: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12065" xml:space="preserve">the one by Aliments, which is ſlow, and, as it were, about; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12066" xml:space="preserve">the other, (and
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            that two fold) which is ſudden, and goeth directly to the ſpirits, namely, by Vapours,
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            or by the Affections.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1661" type="section" level="1" n="110">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head144" xml:space="preserve">Canon XX.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12068" xml:space="preserve">Juices of the Body hard and roſcid are good for Long life.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12069" xml:space="preserve"/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1662" type="section" level="1" n="111">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head145" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12070" xml:space="preserve">THe reaſon i@ plain, ſeeing we ſhe wed before, that hard things, and oily or roſcid are
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            hardly diſſipated: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12071" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding there is difference, (as we alſo noted in the
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            tenth operation) That juice ſome what hard is indeed leſs diſſipable, but then it is withal
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            leſs reparable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12072" xml:space="preserve">therefore a Convenience is interlaced with an Inconvenience, and for this
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            cauſe no wonderful matter will be atchieved by this. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12073" xml:space="preserve">But roſcid juice will admit both
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            Operations; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12074" xml:space="preserve">therefore this would be principally endeavoured.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1663" type="section" level="1" n="112">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head146" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXI.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12076" xml:space="preserve">VVHatſoever is of thin parts to penetr ate, and yet hath no Acrimony to bite, begetteth
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            Roſcid Juices.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1664" type="section" level="1" n="113">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head147" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12078" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon is more hard to practiſe than to underſtand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12079" xml:space="preserve">For it is manifeſt, what-
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            ſoever penetrateth well, but yet with a ſting or tooth, (as do all ſharp and ſour
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            things) it leaveth behind it whereſoever it goeth ſome mark or print of drineſs and
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            cleaving, ſo that it hardneth the juices, and chappeth the parts: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12080" xml:space="preserve">contrarily, whatſoever
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            things penetrate through their thinneſs merely, as it were by ſtealth, and by way of in-
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            ſinuation, without violence, they bedew and water in their paſſage. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12081" xml:space="preserve">Of which ſort we
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            have recounted many in the fourth and ſeventh Operations.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1665" type="section" level="1" n="114">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head148" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXII.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12083" xml:space="preserve">Aſſimilation is beſt done when all Local Motion is expended.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1666" type="section" level="1" n="115">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head149" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12085" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon we have ſufficiently explained in our Diſcourſe upon the eighth Ope-
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            ration.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1667" type="section" level="1" n="116">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head150" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXIII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12087" xml:space="preserve">ALimentation from without, at leaſt ſome other way than by the Stomach, is most pro-
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            fitable for Long life, if it can be done.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1668" type="section" level="1" n="117">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head151" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12089" xml:space="preserve">WE ſee that all things which are done by Nutrition, ask a long time, but thoſe which
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            are done by embracing of the like (as it is in Infuſions) require no long time. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12090" xml:space="preserve">And
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            therefore Alimentation from without would be of principal uſe, and ſo much the more,
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            becauſe the Faculties of Concoction decay in old age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12091" xml:space="preserve">ſo that if there could be ſome auxi-
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            liary Nutritions, by Bathings, Vnctions, or elſe by Clyſters, theſe things in conjunction
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            might do much, which ſingle are leſs available.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1669" type="section" level="1" n="118">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head152" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXIV.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12093" xml:space="preserve">WHere the Concoction is weak to thruſt forth the Aliment, there the Outward parts
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            ſhould be strengthned to call forth the Aliment.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1670" type="section" level="1" n="119">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head153" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12095" xml:space="preserve">THat which is propounded in this Canon is not the ſame thing with the former; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12096" xml:space="preserve">for
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            it is one thing for the outward Aliment to be attracted inward, another for the in-
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            ward Aliment to be attracted outward: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12097" xml:space="preserve">yet herein they concur, that they both help
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            the weakneſs of the inward Concoctions, though by divers ways.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1671" type="section" level="1" n="120">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head154" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXV.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12099" xml:space="preserve">ALL ſudden Renovation of the Body is wrought either by the Spirit, or by Malaciſſa-
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            tions.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1672" type="section" level="1" n="121">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head155" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12101" xml:space="preserve">THere are two things in the body, Spirits and Parts: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12102" xml:space="preserve">to both theſe the way by Nu-
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            trition is long and about; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12103" xml:space="preserve">but it is a ſhort way to the Spirits by Vapours and by
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            the Affections, and to the Parts by Malaciſſations. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12104" xml:space="preserve">But this is diligently to be noted,
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            that by no means we confound Alimentation from without with Malaciſſation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12105" xml:space="preserve">for the
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            intention of Malaciſſation is not to nouriſh the parts, but onely to make them more fit
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            to be nouriſhed.</s>
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