Sylva sylvarum: or, a natural history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life / Published ... by William Rawley ... Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And the New Atlantis. With an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries.

Francis Bacon

Date:: 1676

Credit: Sylva sylvarum: or, a natural history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life / Published ... by William Rawley ... Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And the New Atlantis. With an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$apt ce pn nineteen GR Te RS RT oo TE Ny haa a he thal] tind only three fet Diets » the Optate Diet, the Diet Malaciffant or Suppling , and the Diet Emaciant and Renewing. But amongf thofe which we prefcribed tor Familiar Diet , and to be ufed daily, the moft efficacious are thefe that follow , which alfo come not far (hort of the vertue of Set Diets: Nitre, and the fzbordinates to Nitres the Re- giment of the Affections, and courfe of our Lifes Refrigeratonrs which pas not by the Stomach Drinks Rofcidating, ox ingendring Oily Fuices 3 befprinkling of the bloud with (ome firmer matter 5 a3 Pearls, certain Woods, competent Uxétions to keep out the Air and to keep in the Spirit; Heaters from without, during the Affimilation after fleep 5 avoiding of thofe things which inflame the Spirit , and put it into an eager heat, as Wine aud Spices. Laftly, a moderate and (eafonable use of thofe things which endue the fpirits with a Robuft heat, as Saffron, Croffes, Garlick, Elecampane, and comp.und Opiates. T He Living Spirit is inftantly extinguithed, if it be deprived either of Motion, or of Re frigeration, or of Aliment. | Amely, thefe are thofe three which before we called the Porches of Death, and they are the proper and immediate paflions of the Spirit. For all the Organs of the principal parts ferve hereunto, that thefe three Offices be performed and again, all deftruction of the Organs which is deadly brings the matter to this point, that one or more of thefe three fail: Therefore all other things are the divers ways to Death, but they -end in thefe three. Now the whole Fabrick of the Parts isthe Organ of the Spi- ritj as the Spirit is the Organ of the Reafonable Souls whichis Incorpureous and Divine. 7 Canon XXXII. Lame is 2 Momentany fubftance, Air 2 Fixed 3 the Living Spirit ix Creatures és of a’ middle Nature, ; The Explicasione ee “PR matter ftands, in need both of an higher Indagation, and of a longer Explica-' tion. than is pertinent to the prefent Inguifition, Mean while we muft know this, that Flame is almoft every moment generated and extinguifhed , fothat it is con- tinued, only by fuccetfion 5 but Airis a fixed body, and itnot diflolved : for though Air begets new Air out of watery moifture, yet netwithftanding the old Air fill remains; whence eometh that Supersoneration of the Air whereof we have {poken in the Title De Ventise: But) Spirit is participant of both Natures, both of Flame and Air, even_as ithé -sourifhments thereof are , as well Oyl, which is homogeneous to Flame, as | Water, whichis homogeneous to Air: for the Spiri¢ is not nourifhed either of Oily ‘alone, or of Watry alone, but of both together ; and though Air doth notagree well _j with Flame, nor Oy! with Water, yetina mix'’d body they agree well enough, Alfo | thé. Spa'it hath from the Air his eafie and delicate impreflions and yieldings , and from | the Flame his Noble and Potent Motions and Adhivities. In like manner the Duration | jof Spirie is a mixed thing, being neither, fomomentany as that of Flame, nor fo fixed | jas that of dir: And fo much the rather it followeth not the condition of Flame y for} that Flame iefelf is extinguithed by accident, namely, by.contrarics, and Enemies enyi- | Spirétiisrcpaired from, the lively and florid bloud of the {mall Arteries, which are in-. ferted into the Brain but this Reparation is done by a peculiar manner, of which we {peak not now. | 2S “44 J. } evi$

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