Sylva sylvarum: or a naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban / Published after the author's death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, one of his Majesties chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke.

Francis Bacon

Date:: 1635

Credit: Sylva sylvarum: or a naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban / Published after the author's death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, one of his Majesties chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$my, ec SEE TO ER a \ 2 _—__ — ——_———__ ae a thin that Purkerh, and hath neither ofthe firft cwo Manifest Qualities zit isto | By bee held fufpected, asa kinde of Peyfons For that it worketh either by ne | Corrofion sor by aecres Mulignitie and Enmitie to Nature: And therefore ihe fach sfedicines are warily cobec prepared, and ufed. The Quansitie of ich tbat which is taken, dothalfocaule Purging ; As wee fee Ina great Quan- | titte of New Afi ee from the Cowsyeaanda great Quanririeof Ateat.For Surfers many times turae to Parges, both upwards, and downwards. nd| ‘Therfore we fee generally,that the working Of Purging Medicines: com: of | . fmeth twoor three houres after the Medicines taken ; For that the sto- ba 'macke firft maketha proofe, whether itcan concoct them. And the like ud) |. | bappeneth after Surfets 5 Or Milke IN tOO great Quantitie, hy | A fecond Caxfe 1s Mordication of the Orifices of the Parts, Efpeci- 4 he ally of the Mefentery veires ; As it isfeene, that Salr, or any fuch thing rte that is fharpeand biting, put into the Fusdament, doth provoke the hee Part to expell; And A¢uftard provoketh Sneezing: And any Sharpe itd Thing tothe Eyes,provoketh £ eares.And therefore we fee that almoft il all Purgers havea kinde of Twiching and vellication, befides the Griping “| whichcommeth of wind. And if this #ordicationbeein an ouer-high : | Degree it is litle better than'the Corrofion of Poyfon; Andit commeth | of to pafle fometimes in Antimony ; Efpecially if it be given, to Bodies not | nai | |tepleat with Humors; For where Humors abotind , che Humors {aye if 7 | the Parts. ; | i) The third Caufe is 4ttracion : ForI doe not deny , but thar Purging 38 a | Medicines have in thema direc Force of Attrattion ; As Drawing Pla- my | frers have in Surgery: And wee {ee Sage, or Betronybrufed, S neezing-pow- | | |der, andother Powders or Liquors (which the, Phyfiriaws call Errbives, ) eh | -|putiato the Nofe’s draw Flegme , and water from the Head; Andfoit | lisin Apophlegmarifmes, and Gargarifmes’; that draw the Rheume downe| | |bythe Pallate. And by this Vertue, nodoube, fome Purgers draw more xe) |» {oneHumour, and fome another, according to the Opinion received =| a As Rubarb draweth Choller 5 Sean Melancholy ; Agarick Flegme’; &c. ial But yet, (more or lefle ) they draw p:omifcuoufly. And note alfo,that eat! befides Sympathy, between the Anager and the Humour, there isalfoan: iol other Caufe, why fome Medicizes draw fome Humour more than ano- a) de [ther. Anditis, for thatfome Medicixes work quicker than others: And ve} | | they thar draw quick,draw only the Lighter,and more fluide Humours; i) they that draw flow, worke uponthe more Tough, and Vifcous Hu- nt mours. And therfore Men muftbewaré, how they take Rubarb and the fim like, alone, familiarly , For ic taketh onelythe Li ghteft part of che Hu- che mour away, and leaveth the Mafle of Humours more obftinate. And of the like may be faid of Worme-yeod, which is { much magnified: te The fourth Canfe is Flatuofity , For wiae titra moveth to expell:] 39 ci And wee finde that ( in effect )all Purgers have in thema raw Spiritt, or elt wind ; which is the Principall Cau(? of T ortion in the Stomach, and Belly. nA And therefore Purgers leefe ( moftofthem ) the vertue, by Decottion je upon the Fire ; And forthat Caufe are given chiefly in Infafion; Juyce, i | or Powder. : The that! SPADES USE eer eeaERRETN ws! on m= ce eR eae OEIC Aon atta seen eon ames$

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