greater Quantity moue Stock and in smaller Vrine And so contrariwise some that in greater Quantity moue Vrine and in Smaller Stoole Of the former sort is Rubarb and some others The Cause is for that Rubarb is a Medicine which the Stomach in a small Quantity doth digest and ouercome being not Flatuous nor Loathsome and so sendeth it to the Mesentery Veines And so being opening it helpeth downe Vrine But in a greater Quantitie the Stomach cannot ouercome it and so it goeth to the Gutts Pepper by some of the Ancients is noted to be of the second sort which being in small Quantity moueth wind in the Stomach and Gutts and so expelleth by Stoole But being in greater Quantity dissipateth the Wind And it selfe gotteth to the Mesentery veines And so to the Liuer and Reines where by Heating and Opening it sendeth downe Vrine more plentifully Wee haue spoken of Euacuating of the Body wee will now speake something of the Filling of it by Restoratines in Consumptions and Emaciating Diseases In Vegetables there is one Part that is more Nourishing than another As Graines and Roots nourish more than the Leaues In so much as the Order of the Foliatanes was put downe by the Pope as finding Leaues vnable to Nourish Mans Body Whether there be that difference in the Flesh of Liuing Creatures is not well inquired As whether Liuers and other Entrails be not more Nourishing than the Outward Flesh. We find that amongst the Romans a Gooses Liuer was a great Delicacy In so much as they had Artificiall Meanes to make it faire and great But whether it were more Nourishing appeareth not It is certaine that Marrow is more Nourishing than Fat. And I conceiue that some Decoction of Bones and Sinewes stamped and well strained would bee a very Nourishing Broth Wee finde also that Scotch Skinck which is a Pottage of strong Nourishment is made with the Knees and Sinewes of Bâ—est but long boiled letty also which they vse for a Restoratiue is chiefly made of Kâ—uckles of Veale The Pulp that is within the Crafish or Crabb which they spice and butter is more Nourishing than the Flesh of the Crabb or Crafish The Yolkes of Egges are clearely more Nourishing than the Whites So that it should seeme that the Parts of Liuing Creatures that lye more Inwards nourish more than the Outward Flesh Except it bee the Braine which the Spirits prey too much vpon to leaue it any great Vertue of Nourishing It seemeth for the Nourishing of Aged Men or Men in Consumptions some such thing should be Deuised as should be halfe Chylus before it be put into the Stomach Take two large Capons perboile them vpon a soft fire by the space of an houre or more till in effect all the Bloud be gone Adde in the Decoction the Pill of a Sweet Limon or a good part of the Pill of a Citron and a little Mace Cut off the Shanckes and throw them away Then with a good strong Chopping-knife mince the two Capons bones and all as small as ordinary Minced Meat Put them into a large neat Boulter Then take a Kilderkin sweet and well feasoned of foure gallons of Beere of 8. â— strength new as it commeth from the Tunning Make in the Kilderkin a great Bung-hole of purpose Then thrust into it the Boulter in which the Capons are drawne out in length Let it steepe in it three Dayes and three Nights the Bung-hole open to worke Then close the Bung-hole and so let it continue a Day and a halfe Then draw it into bottles and you may drinke it well after three dayes Botteling And it will last six weeks approued It drinketh fresh flowreth and mantleth exceedingly It drinketh not newish at all It is an excellent Drinke for a Consumption to be drunke either alone or Carded with some other Beere It quencheth Thirst and hath no whit of windinesse Note that it is not possible that Meat and Bread either in Broths or taken with Drink as is vsed should get forth into the veines and outward Parts so finely and easily as when it is thus Incorporate and made almost a Chylus aforehand Triall would bee made of the like Brew with Potado Roots or Burr Roots or the Pith of Artichoakes which are nourishing Meats It may be tried also with other flesh As Phesant Partridge Young Porke Pigge Venison especially of young Deere c. A Mortresse made with the Brawne of Capons stamped and strained and mingled after it is made with like quantitie at the least of Almond Butter is an excellent Meat to Nourish those that are weake Better than Blanck-Manger or Ielly And so is the Cullice of Cocks boyled thick with the like Mixture of Almond Butter For the Mortresse or Cullice of it selfe is more Sauoury and strong And not so fit for Nourishing of weake Bodies But the Almonds that are not of so high a taste as Flesh doe excellently qualifie it Indian Maiz hath of certaine an excellent Spirit of Nourishment But it must be throughly boyled and made into a Maiz-Creame like a Barley Creame I iudge the same of Rize made into a Creame For Rize is in Turky and other Countries of the East most fed vpon But it must be throughly boyled in respect of the Hardnesse of it And also because otherwise it bindeth the Body too much Pistachoes so they be good and not musty ioyned with Almonds in Almond Milke Or made into a Milke of themselues like vnto Almond Milke but more greene are an excellent Nourisher But you shall doe well to adde a little Ginger scraped because they are not without some subtill windinesse Milke warme from the Cow is found to be a great Nourisher and a good Remedy in Consumptions But then you must put into it when you milke the Cow two little bagges the one of Powder of Mint the other of Powder of Red Roses For they keepe the Milke somewhat from Turning or Crudling in the stomach And put in Sugar also for the same cause and partly for the Tasts sake But you must drinke a good draught that it may stay lesse time in the stomach left it Cruddle And let the Cup into which you milke the Cow bee set in a greater Cup of hot water that you may take it warme And Cow-milke thus prepared I iudge to be better for a Consumption than Asse-milke which it is true turneth not so easily but it is a little harrish Marry it is more proper for Sharpnesse of Vrine and Exulceration of the Bladder and all manner of Lenifyings Womans milke likewise is prescribed when all faile but I commend it not as being a little too neere the Iuyce of Mans Body to be a good Nourisher Except it be in Infants to whom it is Naturall Oyle of Sweet Almonds newly drawen with Sugar and a little Spice spread vpon Bread tosted is an Excellent Nourisher But then to keepe the Oyle from frying in the Stomach you must drinke a good draught of Milde Beere after
of Beere or Ale while it is New and full of Spirit so that it spirteth when the Stopple is taken forth maketh the Drinke more quicke and windie A Pan of Coales in the Cellar doth likewise good and maketh the Drinke worke againe New Drinke put to Drinke that is Dead prouoketh it to worke againe Nay which is more as some affirme A Brewing of New Beere set by Old Beere maketh it worke againe It were good also to Enforce the Spirits by some Mixtures that may excite and quicken them As by Putting into the Bottles Nitre Chalke Lime c. We see Creame is Matured and made to rise more speedily by Putting in Cold Water which as it seemeth getteth downe the Whey It is tried that the Burying of Bottles of Drinke well stopped either in drie Earth a good depth Or in the Bottome of a Well within Water And best of all the Hanging of them in a deepe Well somewhat aboue the Water for some forthnights space is an Excellent Meanes of making Drink fresh and quicke for the Cold doth not cause my Exhaling of the Spirits at all As Heat doth though it rarifieth the rest that remaine But Cold maketh the Spirits vigorous and irritateth them whereby they Incorporate the Parts of the Liquour perfectly As for the Maturation of Fruits It is wrought by the Calling forth of the Spirits of the Body outward and so Spreading them more Smoothly And likewise by Digesting in some degree the Grosser Parts And this is Effected by Heat Motion Attraction And by a Rudiment of Putrefaction For the Inception of Putrefaction hath in it a Maturation There were taken Apples and laid in Straw In Hay In Flower In Chalke In Lime Couered ouer with Onions Couered ouer with Crabs Closed vp in Wax Shut in a Box c. There was also an Apple hanged vp in Smoake Of all which the Experiments sorted in this Manner After a Moneths Space the Apple Enclosed in Wax was as Greene and Fresh as at the first Putting in and the Kernells continued White The Cause is for that all Exclusion of Open Aire which is euer Predatory maintaineth the Body in his first Freshnesse and Moisture But the Inconuenience is that it tasteth a little of the Wax Which I suppose in a Pomgranate or some such thick-coated Fruit it would not doe The Apple Hanged in the Smoake turned like an Old Mellow Apple Wrinkled Drle Soft Sweet Yellow within The Cause is for that such a degree of Heat which doth neither Melt nor Scorch For we see that in a greater Heat a Roast Apple Softneth and Melteth And Pigs feet made of Quarters of Wardens scorch and haue a Skin of Cole doth Mellow and not Adure The Smoake also maketh the Apple as it were sprinkled with Soot which helpeth to Mature We see than in Drying of Peares and Prunes in the Ouen and Remouing of them often as they begin to Sweat there is a like Operation But that is with a farre more Intense degree of Heat The Apples couered in the Lime and Ashes were well Matured As appeared both in their Yellownesse and Sweetnesse The Cause is for that that Degree of Heat which is in Lime and Ashes being a Smoothering Heat is of all the rest most Proper for it doth neither Liquefie nor Atefie And that is true Maturation Nâ—â— that the Taste of those Apples was good And therefore it is the Experiment fittest for Vse The Apples Conered with Crabs and Onions were likewise well Matured The Cause is not any Heat But for that the Crab and the Onions draw forth the â—â—â—â— of the Apple and spread them equally thorow out the â—â—â— which â—â—â— away Hatdnesse â—â—â—â—â—â— see fâ—â— one Apple â—â—â—ath against another And therefore in making of Cider they turne the Apples first vpon a heape So one Cluster of Grapes that toucheth another â—â—â—â— it groweth ripeneth faster â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— The Appleâ— â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— and the Sâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— apparently though â—â—â—â—â— â—â—â—â—â—â— in the â—â—â—â—â—â— more The Cause is for that the Hay and Straw haue a very low degree of Heat but yet Close and Smoothering and which drieth nor The Apple in the Close Box was ripened also The Cause is for that all Alfe kept close hath a degree of Warmth As we see in Wâ—â—â—â—â—â—â— Plusâ— c. Note that all these were Compared with another Apple of the same kinds that lay of it Selfe And in Comparison of that were more Sweet and more Yellow and so appeared to be most Ripe Taken Apple or Pâ—â—â— or other like Fruit and Rowâ—â— it vpon a Table hard We see in Common Experience that the 〈◊〉 doth Soften and Sweeten the Fruit presently Which is Nothing but the Sâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— of the Spirits into the Parts For the â—â—â—â—â— Dâ—â—â—â—â— of the Spirits maketh the Haâ—â—ishnesse But this Hard Rowâ—â—â— is betweene Concoction and a Simple Maturation Therefore if you should Rowle them but gently perhaps twice a day And 〈…〉 some seuen dayes it is like they would mature more finely and like vnto the Naturall Maturation Take an Apple and cut out a Peece of the Top and couer it to see whether that Solution of Continuitie will not hasten a Maturation We see that where a Waspe or a Flie or a Worme hath bitten in a Grape or any Fruit it will sweeten hastily Take an Apple c. and pricke it with a Prinne full of Holes not deepe and smeare it a little with Sacke or Cinnamon Water or Spirit of Wine euery day for ten dayes to see if the Virtuall Heat of the Wine or Strong Waters will not Mature it In these Trialls also as was vsed in the first set another of the same Fruits by to Compare them And trie them by their Yellownesse and by their Sweetnesse The World hath beene much abused by the Opinion of Making of Gold The Worke it selfe I iudge to be possible But the Meanes hitherto propounded to effect it are in the Practise full of Errour and Imposture And in the Theory full of vnsound Imaginations For to say that Nature hath an Intention to make all Metals Gold And that if she were deliuered from Impediments she would performe her owne Worke And that if the Crudities Impurities and Leprosities of Metals were cured they would become Gold And that a little Quantitie of the Medicine in the Worke of Proiection will turne a Sea of the Baser Metall into Gold by Multiplying All these are but dreames And so are many other Grounds of Alchymy And to helpe the Matter the Alchymists call in likewise many Vanities out of Astrologie Naturall Magicke Superstitious Interpretations of Scriptures Auricular Traditions Faigned Testimonies of Ancient Authors And the like It is true on the other side they haue brought to light not a few profitable Experiments and thereby made the World some amends But wee when wee shall come to handle the Version and Transmutation of Bodies And the Experiments concerning Metalls and Mineralls will lay open the true Wayes and Passages of Nature which
faster vpon vs. The daintiest Smells of Flowers are out of those Plants whose Leaues smell not As Violets Roses Wall-flowers Gilly-flowers Pinckes Woodbines Vine-flowers Apple-Bloomes Lime-Tree Bloomes Beane-Bloomes c. The Cause is for that where there is Heat and strength enough in the Plant to make the Leaues Odorate there the Smell of the Flower is rather Euanide and Weaker than that of the Leaues As it is in Rose-Mary-Flowers Lauender-Flowers and Sweet-Briar-Roses But where there is lesse Heat there the Spirit of the Plant is disgested and refined and feuered from the Grosser Iuyce in the Esstorescence and not before Most Odours Smell best Broken or Crusht as hath beene said But Flowers Pressed or Beaten doe leese the Freshnesse and Sweetnesse of their Odour The Cause is for that when they are Crushed the Grosser and more Earthy Spirit commeth out with the Finer and troubleth it Whereas in stronger Odours there are no such Degrees of the Issue of the Smell It is a Thing of very good Vse to Discouer the Goodnesse of Waters The Taste to those that Drinke Water onely doth somewhat But other Experiments are more sure First try Waters by Weight Wherein you may finde some difference though not much And the Lighter you may account the Better Secondly try them by Boyling vpon an Equall Fire And that which consumeth away fastest you may account the Best Thirdly try them in Seuerall Bottles or Open Vessels Matches in euery Thing else and see which of them Last Longest without Stench or Corruption And that which holdeth Vnputrified longest you may likewise account the Best Fourthly try them by Making Drinkes Stronger or Smaller with the same Quantity of Mault And you may conclude that that Water which maketh the Stronger Drinke is the more Concocted and Nou-rishing though perhaps it be not so good for Medicinall vse And such Water commonly is the Water of Large and Nanigable Riuers And likewise in Large and Cleane Ponds of Standing Water For vpon both them the Sunne hath more power than vpon Fountaines or Small Riuers And I concelue that Chalke-water is next them the best for going furthest in Drinke For that also helpeth Concoction So it be out of a Deepe Well For then it Cureth the Rawnesse of the Water But Chalkie Water towards the Top of the Earth is too fretting As it appeareth in Laundry of Cloaths which weare out apace if you vse such Waters Fifthly The Houswiues doe finde a Difference in Waters for the Bearing or Not Bearing of Soape And it is likely that the more Fat Water will beare Soape best For the Hungry Water doth kill the Vnctuous Nature of the Soape Sixthly you may make a Iudgement of Waters according to the Place whence they Spring or Come The Rain-Water is by the Physitians esteemed the Finest and the best But yet it is said to putrifie soonest which is likely because of the Finenesse of the Spirit And in Conseruatories of Raine-water such as they haue in Venice c. they are and not so Choice waters The worse perhaps because they are Couered aloft and kept from the Sunne Snow-water is held vnwholesome In so much as the People that dwell at the Foot of the SnowMountaines or otherwise vpon the Ascent especially the Women by drinking of snow-Snow-water haue great Bagges hanging vnder their Throats Well-water except it be vpon Chalke or a very plentifull Spring maketh Meat Red which is an ill Signe Springs on the Tops of High-Hills are the best For both they seeme to haue a Lightnesse and Appetite of Mounting And besides they are most pure and Vnmingled And againe are more Percolated thorow a great Space of Earth For Waters in Valleyes ioyne in effect vnder Ground with all Waters of the same Leuell Whereas Springs on the Tops of Hills passe thorow a great deale of Pure Earth with lesse Mixture of other Waters Seuenthly Iudgement may be made of Waters by the Soyle whereupon the Water runneth As Pebble is the Cleanest and best tasted And next to that Clay-water And Thirdly Water vpon Chalke Fourthly that vpon Sand And Worst of all vpon Mudde Neither may you trust Waters that Taste Sweet For they are commonly found in Rising Grounds of great Cities which must needs take in a great deale of Filth In Peru and diuers Parts of the West Indies though vnder the Line the Heats are not so Intolerable as they be in Barbary and the Skirts of the Torrid Zone The Causes are First the Great Brizes which the Motion of the Aire in great Circles such as are vnder the Girdle of the World produceth Which doe refrigerate And therefore in those Parts Noone is nothing so hot when the Brizes are great as about Nine or Ten of the Clocke in the Fore-Noone Another Cause is for that the Length of the Night and the Dewes thereof doe compense the Heat of the Day A third Cause is the Stay of the Sunne Not in Respect of Day and Night for that wee spake of before but in Respect of the Season For vnder the Line the Sunne crosseth the Line and maketh two Summers and two Winters But in the Skirts of the Torrid Zone it doubleth and goeth backe againe and so maketh one Long Summer The Heat of the Sunne maketh Men Blacke in some Countries as in AEthiopia and Ginny c. Fire doth it not as wee see in GlasseMen that are continually about the Fire The Reason may be because Fire doth licke vp the Spirits and Bloud of the Body so as they Exhale So that it euer maketh Men looke Pale and Sallow But the Sunne which is a Gentler Heat doth but draw the Bloud to the Outward Parts And rather Concooteth it than Soaketh it And therefore wee see that all AEthiapes are Fleshy and Plumpe and haue great Lips All which betoken Moisture retained and not drawne out Wee see also that the Negroes are bred in Countries that haue Plenty of Water by Riuers or otherwise For Meroe which was the Metropolis of AEthiopia was vpon a great Lake And Congo where the Negroes are is full of Riuers And the Confines of the Riuer Niger where the Negroes also are are well watered And the Region about Capo Verde is likewise Moist in so much as it is pestilent through Moisture But the Countries of the Abyssenes and Barbary and Peru. where they are Tawney and Oliuaster and Pale are generally more Sandy and Dry. As for the AEthiopes as they are Plumpe and Fleshy So it may bee they are Sanguine and ruddy Coloured if their blacke Skinne would suffer it to be seene Some Creatures doe moue a good while after their Head is off As Birds Some a very little time As Men and all beasts Some moue though cut in feuerall Pieces As Snakes Eeles Wormes Flies c. First therefore it is certaine that the Immediate Cause of Death is the Resolution or Extinguishment of the Spirits And that the Destruction or Corruption of the Organs is but the
as they come vp to remoue them into New Ground that is good Enquire also whether Inoculating of Flowers as Stock-Gilly-Flowers Roses Muske-Roses c. doth not make them Double There is a Cherry-Tree that hath Double Blossomes But that Tree beareth no Fruit And it may be that the same Meanes which applied to the Tree doth extremely accelerate the Sap to rise and breake sorth Would make the Tree spend it selfe in Flowers and those to become Double Which were a great pleasure to see Especially in Apple-Trees Peach-Trees and Almond-Trees that haue Blossomes Blush-Coloured The Making of Fruits without Core or Stone is likewise a Curiosity And somewhat better Because whatsoeuer maketh them so is like to make them more Tender and Delicate If a Cions or Shooe fit to be set in the Ground haue the Pith finely taken forth and not altogether but some of it left the better to saue the life it will beare a Fruit with little or no Core or Stone And the like is said to be of diuiding a Quicke-Tree downe to the Ground and Taking out the Pith and then binding it vp againe It is reported also that a Citron grafted vpon a Quince haue small or no Seeds And it is very probable that 〈…〉 grafted vpon a Stocke that 〈◊〉 a Sweeter Fruit may hath make the Fruit sweeter and more void of the harsh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Seeds It is reported that not only the â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— of the â—â—â—â— but the Steepping of the Iuyce of the Pith from Rising in the 〈…〉 if you should boare a Tree cleane thorow and put a wedge in It is true there is some Affinitie betweene the Pith and the Kernell because they are both of a harsh Substance and both placed in the Middest It is reported that Trees watred perpetually with Warme Water will make a Fruit with little or no Core or â—â—â— And the Rule is generall that whatsoeuer will make a Water-Tree a Garden-Tree will make a Garden-Tree to haue lesse Core or Stone The Rule is certaine that Plants for want of Culture â—â—â—â—â— to be be baser in the same Kinde And sometimes so â—â—â—â— as to change into another Kinde 1. The Stâ—â—ding â—â—â—â— not being Remoued â—â—keth them degenerase 2. Drangle vnlesse the Earth of it selfe be moist doth the like 3. So doth Remouing into worse Earth or Gorbearing to Câ—â—â—pâ—st the Earth As wee see that Water-Mini turneth into Field-Mini And the Colewort into Rape by Neglect c. Whatsouer Fruit vseth to bee set vpon a Roâ—â— or a Slipif it bee 〈◊〉 will degenerate Grapes sowne Figs Almonds Pomgranate Kernells sowne make the Fruits degenerate and become Wilde And againe Most of those Fruits that vse to be grafted if they be set of Kernells or Stones degenerate It is true that â—â—â—â— as hath beene touched before doe better vpon Sâ—â—â— Sâ—â— than vpon Grafting And the Rule of Exception should seeme to be this That whatsoeuer Pâ—â—â—â— requireth much Moisture prospereth better vpon the Stone or Kernell than vpon the Graft For the Stocke though it glueth a finer Nourishment yet it giueth a scanter than the Earth at large Seeds if they be very Old and yet haue strength enough to bring forth a Plant make the Plant degenerate And therefore skilfull Gardiners make triall of the Seeds before they buy them whether they be good or no by Putting them into Water gently Boyled And if they be good they will sprout within Halfe an Houre It is strange which is reported that Basill too such exposed to the Sunne doth turne into Wilde Thyme Although those two Herbs seeme to haue small Affinitie but Basill is almost the only Hot Herbe that hath Fat and Succulent Leaues Which Oylinesse if it be drawne forth by the Sunne it is like it will make a very great Change There is an old Tradition that Boughs of Oake put into the Earth will put forth Wilde Vines Which if it be true no doubt it is not the Oake that turneth into a Vine but the Oake-Bough Putrifying qualifieth the Earth to put forth a Vine of it selfe It is not impossible and I haue heard it verified that vpon Cutting downe of an Old Timber-Tree the Stub hath put out sometimes a Tree of another Kinde As that Beech hath put forth Birch Which if it be true the Cause may be for that the old Stub is too scant of Iuyce to put forth the former Tree And therefore putteth forth a Tree of a smaller kindey that needeth lesse Nourishment There is an Opinion in the Countrey that if the same Ground be oft sowen with the Graine that grew vpon it it will in the end grow to be of a baâ—er kinde It is certaine that in very Sterile Yeares Carne sowne will grow to an Other Kinde Grandia sapè quibus mandauimus Hordes Sulcis Infoelix Lolium steriles dominantur Auena And generally it is a Rule that Plants that are brought forth by Culture as Corne will sooner change into other Species than those that come of themselues For that Culture giueth but an Aduentitious Nature which is more easily put off This worke of the Transmutation of Plants one into another is inter Magnalia Naturae For the Transmutation of Species is in the vulgar philosophie pronounced Impossible And certainly it is a thing of difficultie and requireth deepe Seatch into Nature But feeing there appeare some manifest Instances of it the Opinion of Impossibilitie is to be reiected And the Meanes thereof to be found out Wee see that in Liuing Creatures that come of Putrefaction there is much Transmutation of one into another As Catterpillers turne into Flies c. And it should seeme probable that what soeuer Creature hauing life is generated without Seed that Creature will change out of one Species into another For it is the Seed and the Nature of it which locketh and boundeth in the Creature that it doth not expatiate So as wee may well conclude that seeing the Earth of it selfe doth put forth Plants without Seed therefore Plants may well haue a Transmigration of Species Wherefore Wanting Instances which doe occurre wee shall giue Directions of the most likely Trialls And generally wee would not haue those that read this our Worke of Sylua Syluarum account it strange or thinke that it is an Ouer-Haste that wee haue set downe Particulars vntried For contrariwise in our owne Estimation we account such Particulars more worthy than those that are already tried and knowne For these Later must be taken as you finde them But the Other doe leuell Point blanke at the Inuenting of Causes and Axiomes Flast therefore you must make account that if you will haue one Plant change into another you must haue the Nourishment ouer-rule the Seed And therefore you are to practise it by Nourishments as contrary as may be to the Nature of the Harbs So neuerthelesse as the Herbe may grow And likewise with Seeds that are of the Weakest Sort and haue least Vigour You shall doe well therefore
the Salt-Water doe neuerthelesse delight more in Fresh Wee see that Salmons and Smelts loue to get into Riuers though it be against the Streame At the Hauen of Constantinople you shall haue great Quantities of Fish that come from the Euxine-Sea that when they come into the Fresh Water doe inebriate and turne vp their Bellies So as you may take them with your Hand I doubt there hath not beene sufficient Experiment made of Putting Sea-Fish into Fresh Water Ponds and Pooles It is a Thing of great Vse and Pleasure For so you may haue them new at some good distance from the Sea And besides it may be the Fish will eat the pleasanter and may fall to breed And it is said that Colchester Oysters which are put into Pits where the Sea goeth and commeth but yet so that there is a Fresh Water Comming also to them when the Sea voideth become by that meanes Fatter and more Growne The Turkish-Bow giueth a very Forcible Shoot Insomuch as it hath beene knowne that the Arrow hath pierced a Stecle Target or a Peece of Brasse of two Inches thicke But that which is more strange the Arrow if it be Headed with Wood hath beene knowne to pierce thorow a Peece of Wood of eight Inches thicke And it is certaine that wee had in vse at one time for Sea-Fight short Arrowes which they called Sprights without any other Heads saue Wood sharpned which were discharged out of Muskets and would pierce thorow the Sides of Ships where a Bullet would not pierce But this dependeth vpon one of the greatest Secrets in all Nature Which is that Similitude of Substance will cause Attraction where the Body is wholly freed from the Motion of Grauitie For if that were taken away Lead would draw Lead and Gold would draw Gold and Iron would draw Iron without the helpe of the Load-Stone But this same Motion of Weight or Grauitie which is a meere Motion of the Matter and hath no Affinitie with the Forme or Kinde doth kill the other Motion except it selfe be killed by a violent Motion As in these Instances of Arrowes For then the Motion of Attraction by Similitude of Substance beginneth to shew it selfe But wee shall handle this Point of Nature fully in due Place They haue in Turkey and the East certaine Confections which they call Seruetts which are like to Candied Conserues And are made of Sugar and Limons or Sugar and Citrons or Sugar and Violets and some other Flowers And some Mixture of Amber for the more delicate Persons And those they dissolue in Water and thereof make their Drinke because they are forbidden Wine by their Law But I doe much maruell that no Englishman or Dutehman or German doth set vp Brewing in Constantinople Considering they haue such Quantitie of Barley For as so the generall Sort of Men Frugalitie may be the Cause of Drinking Water For that it is no small Sauing to pay nothing for ones Drinke But the better Sort mought well be at the Cost And yet I wonder the lesse at it because I see France Italie or Spaine haue not taken into vse Beere or Ale Which perhaps if they did would better both their Healths and their Complexions It is likely it would be Matter of great Gaine to any that should begin it in Turkey In Bathing in Hot Water Sweat neuerthelesse commeth not in the Parts vnder the Water The Cause is First for that Sweat is a Kinde of Colliquation And that Kinde of Colliquation is not made either by an Ouer-Drie Heat or an Ouer-Moist Heat For Ouer-Moisture doth somewhat extinguish the Heat As wee see that euen Hot Water quencheth Fire And Ouer-Drie Heat shutteth the Pores And therefore Men will sooner Sweat couered before the Sunne or Fire than if they stood Naked And Earthen Bottles filled with Hot Water doe prouoke in Bed a Sweat more daintily than Bricke-bats Hot. Secondly Hot Water doth cause Euaporation from the Skin So as it spendeth the Matter in those Parts vnder the Water before it issueth in Sweat Againe Sweat commeth more plentifully if the Heat be increased by Degrees than if it be greatest at first or equall The Cause is for that the Pores are better opened by a Gentle Heat than by a more Violent And by their opening the Sweat issueth more abundantly And therefore Physitians may doe well when they prouoke Sweat in Bed by Bottles with a Decoction of Sudorisicke Herbs in Hot Water to make two Degrees of Heat in the Bottles And to lay in the Bed the lesse Heated first and after halfe an Houre the more Heated Sweat is Salt in Taste The Cause is for that that Part of the Nourishment which is Fresh and Sweet turneth into Bloud and Flesh And the Sweat is only that Part which is Separate and Excerned Bloud also Raw hath some Saltnesse more than Flesh because the Assimilation into Flesh is not without a little and subtile Excretion from the Bloud Sweat commeth forth more out of the Vpper Parts of the Body than the Lower The Reason is because those Parts are more replenished with Spirits And the Spirits are they that put forth Sweat Besides they are lesse Fleshy and Sweat issueth chiefly out of the Parts that are lesse Fleshy and more Dry As the Forehead and Breast Men Sweat more in Sleepe than Waking And yet Sleepe doth rather stay other Fluxions than cause them As Rheumes Loosenesse of the Body c. The Cause is for that in Sleepe the Heat and Spirits doe naturally moue inwards and there rest But when they are collected once within the Heat becommeth more Violent and Irritate And thereby expelleth Sweat Cold Sweats are many times Mortall and neere Death And alwayes ill and Suspected As in Great Feares Hypochondricall Passions c. The Cause is for that Cold Sweats come by a Relaxation or Forsaking of the Spirits wherby the Moisture of the Body which Heat did keepe firme in the Parts seuereth and issueth out In those Diseases which cannot be discharged by Sweat Sweat is ill and rather to be stayed As in Diseases of the Lungs and Fluxes of the Belly But in those Diseases which are expelled by Sweat it easeth and lightneth As in Agues Pestilences c. The Cause is for that Sweat in the Latter Sort is partly Criticall and sendeth forth the Matter that offendeth But in the Former it either proceedeth from the Labour of the Spirits which sheweth them Oppressed Or from Motion of Consent when Nature not able to expell the Disease where it is seated moueth to an Expulsion indifferent ouer all the Body The Nature of the Glo-wormexs is hitherto not well obserued Thus much we see That they breed chiefly in the Hottest Moneths of Summer And that they breed not in Champaigne but in Bushes and Hedges Wherby it may be conceiued that the Spirit of them is very fine and not to be refined but by Summer Heats And againe that by reason of the Finenesse
Reflexion being neare at hand returneth immediatly vpon the Originall and so iterateth it not but amplifieth it Therefore we see that Musicke vpon the water soundeth more And so likewise Musicke is better in Chambers Wainscotted than Hanged The Strings of a Lute or Violl or Virginalls doe giue a far greater Sound by reason of the Knot and Board and Concaue vnderneath than if there were nothing but onely the Flat of a Board without that Hollow and Knot to let in the Vpper Aire into the Lower The Cause is the Communication of the Vpper Aire with the Lower And Penning of both from Expence or Dispersing An Irish Harpe hath Open Aire on both sides of the Strings And it hath the Concaue or Belly not along the Strings but at the End of the Strings It maketh a more Resounding Sound than a Bandora Orpharion or Citterne which haue likewise Wire-strings I iudge the Cause to be for that Open Aire on both Sides helpeth so that there be a Concaue Which is therefore best placed at the End In a Virginall when the Lid is downe it maketh a more exile Sound than when the Lid is open The Cause is for that all Shutting in of Aire where there is no competent Vent dampeth the Sound Which maintaineth likewise the former Instance For the Belly of the Lute or Viâ—ll doth pen the Aire somewhat There is a Church at Glocester and as I haue heard the like is in some other places where if you speake against a Wall softly another shall heare your Voice better a good way off than neare hand Enquire more particularly of the Frame of that Place I suppose there is some Vault or Hollow or Isle behinde the Wall and some Passage to it towards the further end of that Wall against which you speake So as the Voice of him that speaketh slideth along the Wall and then entreth at some Passage and communicateth with the Aire of the Hollow For it is preserued somewhat by the plaine wall but that is too weake to giue a Sound Audible till it hath communicated with the backe Aire Strike vpon a Bowstring and lay the Horne of the Bow neare your Eare and it will encrease the Sound and make a degree of a Tone The Cause is for that the Sensory by reason of the Close Holding is percussed before the Aire disperseth The like is if yo hold the Horne betwixt your Teeth But that is a plaine Delation of the Sound from the Teeth to the Instrument of Hearing For there is a great Entercourse betweene those two Parts As appeareth by this That a Harsh Grating Tune setteth the Teeth on edge The like falleth out if the Horne of the Bow be put vpon the Temples But that is but the Slide of the Sound from thence to the Eare. If you take a Rod of Iron or Brasse and hold the one end to your Eare and strike vpon the other it maketh a fat greater Sound than the like Stroke vpon the Rod not so made Contiguous to the Eare. By which and by some other Instances that haue beene partly touched it should appeare That Sounds doe not onely slide vpon the Surface of a Smooth Body but doe also communicate with the Spirits that are in the Pores of the Body I remember in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge there was an Vpper Chamber which being thought weake in the Roofe of it was supported by a Pillar of Iron of the bignesse of ones Arme in the middest of the Chamber Which if you had strucke it would make a little flat Noise in the Roome where it was strucke But it would make a great Bombe in the Chamber beneath The Sound which is made by Buckets in a Well when they touch vpon the Water Or when they strike vpon the side of the Well Or when two Buckets dash the one against the other These Sounds are deeper and suller than if the like Percussion were made in the Open Aire The Cause is the Penning and Enclosure of the Aire in the Concaue of the Well Barrells placed in a Roome vnder the Floare of a Chamber make all Noises in the same Chamber more Full and Resounding So that there be fine wayes in generall of Maioration of Sounds Enclosure Simple Enclosure with Dilatation Communication Reflexion Concurrent and Approach to the Sensory For Exility of the Voice or other Sounds It is certaine that the Voice doth passe thorow Solide and Hard Bodies if they be not too thick And thorow Water which is likewise a very Close Body and such an one as letteth not in Aire But then the Voice or other Sound is reduced by such passage to a great Weaknesse or Exility If therefore you stop the Holes of a Howkes Bell it will make no Ring but a flat Noise or Rattle And so doth the Aëtites or Eagles Stone which hath a little Stone within it And as for Water it is a certaine Triall Let a Man goe into a Bath and take a Paile and turne the Bottome vpward and carry the Mouth of it Euen downe to the Leuell of the Water and so presse it downe vnder the Water some handfull and an halfe still keeping it euen that it may not tilt on either side so the Aire get out Then let him that is in the Bath diue with his Head so far vnder Water as he may put his Head into the Paile there wil come as much Aire bubling forth as will make Roome for his Head Then let him speak and any that shal stand without shal heare his Voice plainly but yet made extreme sharp and exile like the Voice of Puppets But yet the Articulate Sounds of the Words will not be coÌ„founded Note that it may be much more handsomely done if the Paile be put ouer the Mans head aboue Water and then he cowre downe and the Paile be pressed downe with him Note that a Man must kneele or sit that he may be lower than the Water A Man would thinke that the Sicilian Poet had knowledge of this Experiment For he saith That Hercules Page Hylas went with a Water-pot to fill it at a pleasant Fountaine that was neere the Shore and that the Nymphs of the Fountaine fell in loue with the Boy and pulled him vnder Water keeping him aliue And that Hercules missing his Page called him by his Name aloud that all the Shore rang of it And that Hylas from within the Water answered his Master But that which is to the present purpose with so small and exile a Voice as Hercules thought he had beene three miles off when the Fountaine indeed was fast by In Lutes and Instruments of Strings if you stop a String high whereby it hath lesse Scope to tremble the Sound is more Treble but yet more dead Take two Sawcers and strike the Edge of the one against the Bottome of the other within a Paile of Water And you shall finde that as you put the Sawcers lower and lower the Sound groweth more flat euen while Part
a Chameleon be burnt vpon the Top of a House it will raise a Tempest Supposing according to their vaine Dreames of Sympathies because he nourisheth with Aire his Body should haue great vertue to make Impression vpon the Aire It is reported by one of the Ancients that in Part of Media there are Eruptions of Flames out of Plaines And that those Flames are cleare and cast not forth such Smoake and Ashes and Pummice as Mountaine Flames doe The Reason no doubt is because the Flame is not pent as it is in Mountaines and Earth-quakes which cast Flame There be also some Blinde Fires vnder Stone which flame not out but Oile being powred vpon them they flame out The Cause whereof is for that it seemeth the Fire is so choaked as not able to remoue the Stone it is Heat rather than Flame Which neuerthelesse is sufficient to Enflame the Oyle It is reported that in some Lakes the Water is so Nitrous as if Foule Cloaths be put into it it scoureth them of it selfe And if they stay any whit long they moulder away And the Scouring Vertue of Nitre is the more to be noted because it is a Body Cold And we see Warme Water scoureth better than Cold. But the Cause is for that it hath a Subtill Spirit which seuereth and diuideth any thing that is soule and Viscous and sticketh vpon a Body Take a Bladder the greatest you can get Fill it full of Winde and tye it about the Necke with a Silke thred waxed And vpon that put likewise Wax very close So that when the Neck of the Bladder dryeth no Aire may possibly get in nor out Then bury it three or foure foot vnder the Earth in a Vault or in a Conferuatory of Snow the Snow being made hollow about the Bladder And after some Forthnights distance see whether the Bladder be shruncke For if it be then it is plaine that the Coldnesse of the Earth or Snow hath Condensed the Aire and brought it a Degree nearer to Water Which is an Experiment of great Consequence It is a Report of some good credit that in Deepe Caues there are Pensile Crystall and Degrees of Crystall that drop from aboue And in some other though more rarely that rise from below Which though it be chiefly the Worke of Cold yet it may be that Water that passeth thorow the Earth gathereth a Nature more clammy and fitter to Congeale and become Solide than Water of it selfe Therfore Triall would be made to lay a Heape of Earth in great Frosts vpon a Hollow Vessell putting a Canuase betweene that it falleth not in And poure Water vpon it in such Quantitie as will be sure to soake thorow And see whether it will not make an harder Ice in the bottome of the Vessell and lesse apt to dissolue than ordinarily I suppose also that if you make the Earth narrower at the bottome than at the Top in fashion of a Sugar Loafe Reuersed it will helpe the Experiment For it will make the Ice where it Issueth lesse in Bulke And euermore Smalnesse of Quantity is a Helpe to Version Take Damaske Roses and pull them Then dry them vpon the Top of an House vpon a Lead or Tarras in the hot Sunne in a cleare day betweene the Houres onely of twelue and two or there abouts Then put them into a Sweet Dry Earthen Bottle or a Glasse with narrow Mouthes stuffing them close together but without Bruising Stop the Bottle or Glasse close and these Roses will retaine not onely their Smell Perfect but their Colour fresh for a yeare at least Note that Nothing doth so much destroy any Plant or other Body either by Putrefaction or Arefaction as the Aduentitious Moisture which hangeth loose in the Body if it be not drawne out For it betrayeth and tolleth forth the Innate and Radicall Moisture along with it when it selfe goeth forth And therefore in Liuing Creatures Moderate Sweat doth preserue the Iuyce of the Body Note that these Roses when you take them from the Drying haue little or no Smell So that the Smell is a Second Smell that issueth out of the Flower afterwards The Continuance of Flame according vnto the diuersity of the Body Enflamed and other Circumstances is worthy the Enquiry Chiefly for that though Flame be almost of a Momentany Lasting yet it receiueth the More and the Lesse we will first therefore speake at large of Bodies Enflamed wholly and Immediately without any Wieke to helpe the Inflammations A Spoonefull of Spirit of Wine a little heated was taken and it burnt as long as came to 116. Pulses The same Quantity of Spirit of Wine Mixed with the Sixth Part of a Spoonefull of Nitre burnt but to the space of 94. Pulses Mixed with the like Quantity of Bay-salt 83. Pulses Mixed with the like Quantity of Gunpowder which dissolued into a Blacke water 110. Pulses A Cube or Pellet of Yellow Waxe was taken as much as halfe the Spirit of Wine and set in the Middest and it burnt onely to the space of 87. Pulses Mixed with the Sixth Part of a spoonefull of Milke it burnt to the space of 100. Pulses And the Milke was crudled Mixed with the Sixth Part of a spoonefull of Water it burnt to the space of 86. Pulses With an Equall Quantity of Water onely to the space of 4. Pulses A small Pebble was laid in the Middest and the Spirit of Wine burnt to the space of 94. Pulses A Peece of Wood of the Bignesse of an Arrow and about a Fingers length was set vp in the Middest and the Spirit of Wine burnt to the space of 94. Pulses So that the Spirit of Wine Simple endured the longest And the Spirit of Wine with the Bay-salt and the Equall Quantity of Water were the shortest Consider well whether the more speedy Going forth of the flame becaused by the Greater Vigour of the Flame in Burning Or by the Resistance of the Body mixed and the Auersion thereof to take Flame Which will appeare by the Quantitie of the Spirit of Wine that remaineth after the Going out of the Flame And it seemeth cleerely to be the latter For that the Mixture of Things least apt to burne is the Speediest in going out And note by the way that Spirit of Wine burned till it goe out of it selfe will burne no more And tasteth nothing so hot in the Mouth as it did No nor yet sowre as if it were a degree towards Vinegar which Burnt Wine doth but flat and dead Note that in the Experiment of Wax aforesaid the Wax dissolued in the burning and yet did not incorporate it selfe with the Spirit of Wine to produce one Flame but wheresoeuer the Wax floated the Flame forsooke it till at last it spread all ouer and put the Flame quite out The Experiments of the Mixtures of the Spirit of Wine enflamed are Things of discouerie and not of Vse But now wee will speake of the Continuance of Flames
Mouldie or Rotten but were become a little harder than they were Otherwise fresh in their Colour But their Iuyce somewhat flatted But with the Buriall of a Forthnight more they became Putrified A Bottle of Beere buried in like manner as before became more liuely better tasted and Clearer than it was And a Bottle of Wine in like manner A Bottle of Vinegar so buried came forth more liuely and more Odoriferous smelling almost like a Violet And after the whole Moneths Buriall all the Three came forth as fresh and liuely if not better than before It were a profitable Experiment to presrue Orenges Limons and Pomgranates till Summer For then their Price will be mightily increased This may be done if you put them in a Pot or Vessell well couered that the Moisture of the Earth come not at them Or else by putting them in a Conseruatorie of Snow And generally whosoeuer will make Experiments of Cold let him be prouided of three Things A Conseruatorie of Snow A good large Vault twenty foot at least vnder the Ground And a Deepe Well There hath beene a Tradition that Pearle and Coraâ— and TurchoisStone that haue lost their Colours may be recouered by Burying in the Earth Which is a thing of great profit if it would sort But vpon Triall of Six Weekes Buriall there followed no Effect It were good to trie it in a Deepe Well Or in a Conseruatory of Snow where the Cold may be more Constringent And so make the Body more vnited and thereby more Resplendent Mens Bodier are heauier and lesse disposed to Motion when Sâ—â—ther â—â— Winds blow than when Northerne The Cause is for that when the Southerne Winds blow the Humours doe in some Degree melt and waxe fluide and so flow into the Parts As it is seene in Wood and other Bodies which when the Southerne Winds blow doe swell Besides the Motion and Actiuity of the Body consisteth chiefly in the Sinewes which when the Southerne Wind bloweth are more relaxe It is commonly seene that more are Sick in the Summer and more Dye in the Winter Except it be in Peslilent Diseases which commonly raigne in Summer or Autumne The Reason is because Diseases are bred indeed chiefly by Heat But then they are Cured most by Sweat and Purge which in the Summer commeth on or is prouoked more Easily As for Pestilent Diseases the Reason why most Dye of them in Summer is because they are bred most in the Summer For otherwise those that are touched are in most Danger in the Winter The Generall Opinion is that Yeares Hot and Moist are most Pestilent Vpon the Superficiall Ground that Heat and Moisture cause Putrefaction In England it is found not true For many times there haue beene great Plagues in Dry Yeares Whereof the Cause may be for that Drought in the Bodies of Islanders habituate to Moist Aires doth Exasperate the Humours and maketh them more apt to Putrifie or Enflame Besides it tainteth the Waters commonly and maketh them lesse wholesome And againe in Barbary the Plagues breake vp in the Summer-moneths when the Weather is Hot and Dry. Many Diseases both Epidemicall and others breake forth at Particular times And the Cause is falsely imputed to the Constitution of the Aire at that time when they breake forth or raigne whereas it procâ—edeth indeed from a Precedent Sequence and Series of the Seasons of the Yeare And therefore Hippocrates in his Prognosticks doth make good Obseruations of the Diseases that ensue vpon the Nature of the Precedent foure Seasons of the Yeare Triall hath beene made with Earthen Bottles well stopped hanged in a Well of Twenty Fathome deepe at the least And some of the Bettles haue beene let downe into the Water some others haue hanged aboue within about a fathome of the Water And the Liquours so tried haue beene Beere not New but Ready for drinking and Wine and Milke The Proofe hath beene that both the Beere and the Wine as well within Water as aboue haue not beene palled or deaded at all But as good or somewhat better than Bottles of the same Drinks and Stalenesse kept in a Celler But those which did hang aboue Water were apparently the best And that Beere did flower a little whereas that vnder Water did not though it were Fresh The Milke sowred and began to Purrifie Neuerthelosse it is true that there is a Village neare Blois where in Deepe Canes they doe thicken Milke In such sort that it becommeth very pleasant Which was some Cause of this Triall of Hanging Milke in the Well But our proofe was naught Neither doe I know whether that Milke in those Caues be first boysed It were good therefore to try it with Milke Sodden and with Creame For that Milke of it selfe is such a Compound Body of Creame Curds and Whey as it is easâ—ly Turned and Dissolued It were good also to try the Beere when it is in Wort that it may be seene whether the Hanging in the Well will Accelerate the Ripening and Clarifying of it Diuers we see doe Stut The Cause may be in most the Refrigeration of the Tongue Whereby it is lesse apt to moue And therfore we see that Naturalls doe generally Stut And we see that in those that Stut if they drinke Wine moderately they Stut lesse because it heateth And so we see that they that Stut doe Stut more in the first Offer to speake than in Continuance Because the Tongue is by Motion somewhat heated In some also it may be though rarely the Drinesse of the Tongue which likewise maketh it lesse apt to moue as well as Cold For it is an Affect that commeth to some Wise and Great Men As it did vnto Moses who was Lingâ—epr apedita And many Stutters we finde are very Cholericke Men Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the Tongue Smells and other Odours are Sweeter in the Aire at some Distance than neare the Nose As hath beene partly touched heretofore The Cause is double First the finer Mixture or Incorporation of the Smell For we see that in Sounds likewise they are Sweetest when we cannot heare euery Part by it selfe The other Reason is for that all Sweet Smells haue ioyned with them some Earthy or Crude Odours And at some distance the Sweet which is the more Spirituall is Perceiued And the Earthy reacheth not so farre Sweet Smells are most forcible in Dry Substances when they are Broken And so likewise in Orenges or Limons the Nipping of their Rinde giueth out their Smell more And generally when Bodies are Moued or Stirred though not Broken they Smell more As a SweetBagge waued The Cause is double The one for that there is a Greater Emission of the Spirit when Way is made And this holdeth in the Breaking Nipping or Crushing It holdeth also in some Degree in the Mouing But in this last there is a Conâ—urrence of the Second Cause Which is the Impulsion of the Aire that bringeth the Sent
Mediate Cause But some Organs are so peremptorily necessary that the Extinguishment of the Spirits doth speedily follow But yet so as there is an Interim of a Small Time It is reported by one of the Ancients of credit that a Sacrificed Beast hath lowed after the Heart hath beene feuered And it is a Report also of Credit that the Head of a Pigge hath beene opened and the Braine put into the Palme of a Mans hand trembling without breaking any part of it or feuering it from the Marrow of the Back-bone During which time the Pigge hath beene in all appearance starke dead and without Motion And after a small Time the Braine hath beene replaced and the Skull of the Pigge closed and the Pigge hath a little after gone about And certaine it is that an Eye vpon Reuenge hath beene thrust forth so as it hanged a pretty distance by the Visuall Nerue And during that time the Eye hath beene without any Power of Sight And yet after being replaced recouered Sight Now the Spirits are chiefly in the Head and Cells of the Braine which in Men and Beasts are Large And therefore when the Head is off they moue little or Nothing But Birds haue small Heads and therefore the Spirits are a little more dispersed in the Sinewes whereby Motion remaineth in them a little longer In so much as it is Extant in Story that an Emperour of Rome to shew the Certainty of his Hand did Shoote a great Forked Arrow at an Estrich as shee ranne swiftly vpon the Stage and strooke off her Head And yet shee continued the Race a little way with the Head off As for Wormes and Flies and Eeles the Spirits are diffused almost all ouer And therefore they moue in their Seuerall Pieces NATVRALL HISTORIE V. Century WE will now enquire of Plants or Vegetables And we shall doe it with diligence They are the principall Part of the Third Dayes Worke. They are the first Producat which is the Word of Animation For the other Words are but the Words of Essence And they are of excellent and generall Vse for Food Medicine and a Number of Mechanicall Arts. There were sowen in a Bed Turnip-Seed Radish-Seed Wheat Cucumber-Seed and Pease The Bed we call a Hot-Bed and the Manner of it is this There was taken Horse-dung old and well rotted This was laid vpon a Banke halfe a foot high and supported round about with Planks And vpon the Top was cast Sifted Earth some two Fingers deepe And then the Seed Sprinkled vpon it hauing beene steeped all night in Water Mixed with Cow dung The Turnip-Seed and the Wheat came vp halfe an Inch aboue Ground within two dayes after without any Watring The Rest the third day The Experiment was made in October And it may be in the Spring the Accelerating would haue beene the speedier This is a Noble Experiment For without this helpe they would haue beene foure times as long in comming vp But there doth not occurre to me at this present any vse thereof for profit Except it should be for Sowing of Pease which haue their Price very much increased by the early Comming It may be tried also with Cherries Strawberries and other Fruit which are dearest when they come early There was Wheat steeped in Water mixed with Cow-Dung Other in Water mixed with Horse-Dung Other in Water mixed with Pigeon-Dung Other in Vrine of Man Other in Water mixed with Chalke powdred Other in Water mixed with Soot Other in Water mixed with Ashes Other in Water mixed with Bay-Salt Other in Claret Wine Other in Malmsey Other in Spirìt of Wine The Proportion of the Mixture was a fourth Part of the Ingredients to the Water Saue that there was not of the Salt aboue an eighth Part. The Vrine and Wines and Spirit of Wine were Simple without Mixture of Water The Time of the Steeping was twelue houres The Time of the Yeare October There was also other Wheat sowen vnsteeped but watred twice a day with Warme water There was also other Wheat sowen Simple to compare it with the rest The Euent was That those that were in the Mixture of Dung and Vrine and Soot Chalke Ashes and Salt came vp within fix dayes And those that afterwards proued the Highest Thickest and most Lustie were First the Vrine And then the Dungs Next the Chalke Next the Soot Next the Ashes Next the Salt Next the Wheat Simple of it selfe vnsteeped and vnwatered Next the Watered twice a day with warme water Next the Claret Wine So that these three last were slower than the ordinary Wheat of it selfe And this Culture did rather retard than aduance As for those that were steeped in Malmsey and Spirit of Wine they came not vp at all This is a Rich Experiment for Profit For the most of the Steel pings are Cheape Things And the Goodnesse of the Crop is a great Matter of Gaine If the Goodnesse of the Crop answer the Earlinesse of the Comming vp As it is like it will Both being from the vigour of the Seed Which also partly appeared in the Former Experiments as hath beene said This Experiment would be tried in other Graines Seeds and Kernells For it may be some Steeping will agree best with some Seeds It would be tried also with Roots steeped as before but for longer time It would be tried also in Seuerall Seasons of the yeare especially the Spring Strawberries watered now and then as once in three dayes with Water wherein hath beene steeped Sheepes-dung or Pigeons-dong will preuent and come early And it is like the same Effect would follow in other Berries Herbs Flowers Graines or Trees And therefore it is an Experiment though vulgar in Strawberries yet not brought into vse generally For it is vsuall to helpe the Ground with Mucke And likewise to Recomfort it sometimes with Mucke put to the Roots But to water it with Mucke water which is like to be more Forcible is not practised Dung or Chalke or Bloud applied in Substance seasonably to the Roots of Trees doth set them forwards But to doe it vnto Herbs without Mixture of Water or Earth it may be these Helpes are too Hot. The former Meanes of Helping Germination are either by the Goodnesse and Strength of the Nourishment Or by the Comforting and Exciting the Spirits in the Plant to draw the Nourishment better And of this latter kinde concerning the Comforting of the Spirits of the Plant arealso the experiments that follow Though they be not Applications to the Root or Seed The Planting of Trees warme vpon a Wall against the South or South-East Sunne doth hasten their Comming on and Ripening And the South-East is found to be better than the SouthWest though the South-West be the Hotter Coast. But the cause is chiefly for that the Heat of the Morning succeedeth the Cold of the Night and partly because many times the South-west Sunne is too Parching So likewise the Planting of them vpon the Backe of a Chimney
where a Fire is kept doth hasten their Comming on and Ripening Nay more the Drawing of the Boughes into the Inside of a Roome where a Fire is continually kept worketh the same Effect Which hath beene tried with Grapes In so much as they will come a Moneth earlier than the Grapes abroad Besides the two Meanes of Accelerating Germination formerly described That is to say the Mending of the Nourishment and Comforting of the Spirit of the Plant there is a Third Which is the Making way for the Easie Comming to the Nourishment and Drawing it And therefore Gentle Digging and Loosening of the Earth about the Roots of Trees And the Remening Herbs and Flowers into new Earth once in two yeares which is the same thing For the new Earth is euer looser doth greatly further the Prospering and Earlinesse of Plants But the most admirable Acceleration by Facilitating the Nourishment is that of Water For a Standard of a Damaske Rose with the Root on was set in a Chamber where no Fire was vpright in an Earthen Pan full of Faire Water without any Mixture halfe a foot vnder the Water the Standard being more then two foot high aboue the Water Within the Space of ten dayes the Standard did put forth a faire Greene lease and some other little Buds which stood at a stay without any Shew of decay or withering more then seuen Daies But afterwards that Leafe faded but the young Buds did sprout on which afterward opened into faire Leaues in the space of three Moneths And continued so a while after till vpon Remouall wee left the Triall But note that the Leaues were somewhat paler and lighter-coloured than the Leaues vse to be abroad Note that the first Buds were in the End of October And it is likely that if it had beene in the Spring time it would haue put forth with greater strength and it may be to haue growne on to beare Flowers By this Meanes you may haue as it seemeth Roses set in the middest of a Poole being supported with some stay Which is Matter of Rarenesse and Pleasure though of small Vse This is the more strange for that the like Rose-Standard was put at the same time into Water mixed with Horse-dung the Horse-dung about the fourth Part to the Water and in foure Moneths space while it was obserued put not forth any Leafe though diuers Buds at the first as the other A Dutch Flower that had a Bulbous Root was likewise put at the same time all vnder Water some two or three Fingers deepe And within seuen dayes sprouted and continued long after further Growing There were also put in a Beet-Root a Borrage-Root and a Raddish-Root which had al their Leaues cut almost close to the Roots And within six weekes had faire Leaues And so continued till the end of Nouember Note that if Roots or Pease or Flowers may be Accelerated in their Comming and Ripening there is a double Profit The one in the high Price that those Things beare when they come early The other in the Swiftnesse of their Returnes For in some Grounds which are strong you shall haue a Raddish c. come in a Month That in other Grounds will not come in two And so make double Returnes Wheat also was put into the Water and came not forth at all So as it seemeth there must be some Strength and Bulke in the Body put into the Water as it is in Roots For Graines or Seeds the Cold of the Water will mortifie But casually some Wheat lay vnder the Pan which was somewhat moistned by the Suing of the Pan which in six weekes as aforesaid looked mouldy to the Eye but it was sprouted forth halfe a Fingers length It seemeth by these Instances of Water that for Nourishment the Water is almost all in all and that the Earth doth but keepe the Plant vpright and saue it from Ouer-heat and Ouer-cold And therefore is a Comfortable Experiment for good Drinkers It proueth also that our former Opinion That Drinke incorporate with Flesh or Roots as in Capon-Baere c. will nourish more easily than Meat and Drinke taken seuerally The Nousing of Plants I conceiue will both Accelerate Germination and bring forth Flowers and Plants in the Colder Seasons And as wee House Hot-Countrey Plants as Limons Orenges Myrtles to saue them So we may House our owne Countrey Plants to forward them and make them come in the Cold Seasons In such sort that you may haue Violets Strawberries Pease all Winter So that you sow or remoue them at fit times This Experiment is to be referred vnto the Comforting of the Spirit of the Plant by Warmth as well as Housing their Boughes c. So then the Meanes to Accelerate Germination are in Particular eight in Generall three To make Roses or other Flowers come late it is an Experiment of Pleasure For the Ancients esteemed much of Rosa Sera And indeed the Nouember-Rose is the sweetest hauing beene lesse exhaled by the Sunne The Meanes are these First the Cutting off their Tops immediately after they haue done Bearing And then they will come againe the same yeare about Nouember But they will not come iust on the Tops where they were cut but out of those Shoots which were as it were Water-Boughes The Cause is for that the Sap which otherwise would haue fed the Top though after Bearing will by the discharge of that diuert vnto the Side-Sprouts And they will come to beare but later The Second is the Pulling off the Buds of the Rose when they are Newly knotted For then the Side-Branches will beare The Cause is the same with the former For Cutting off the Tops and Pulling off the Buds worke the same Effect in Retention of the Sap for a time and Diuersion of it to the Sprouts that were not so forward The Third is the Cutting off some few of the Top-Roughes in the Spring-time but suffering the lower Boughes to grow on The Cause is for that the Boughes doe helpe to draw vp the Sap more strongly And we see that in Powling of Trees many doe vse to leaue a Bough or two on the Top to helpe to draw vp the Sap. And it is coparated also that if you graft vpon the Bough of a Tree and cut off some of the old Boughes the new Cions will perish The Fourth is by Laying the Roots bare about christmus some dayes The Cause is plaine for that it doth â—â—â—â—â— the Sap from going vpwards for a time Which Arrest is after wards released by the Couering of the Root a gaine with Earth And then the Sap getteth vp but later The Fifth is the Reâ—â—â—â—â— of the Tree some Moneth before it Buddes The cause is for that some time will be required after the Reâ—â—â—e for the Reselting before it can draw the Iuycs And that time being lost the Blossome uâ—â—â— needs some forth later The Sixth is the Grasting of Kaser in May which commonly Gardiners doe not till Inly And
spent in the Stalke or Lease which remaineth after the Fruit. Where note that the Dying in the winter of the Roots of Plants that are Annuall seemeth to be partly caused by the Ouer-Expence of the Sap into Stalke and Leaues which being preuented they will super-annate if they stand warme The Pulling off many of the Blossomes from a Fruit-Tree doth make the Fruit fairer The Cause is manifest For that the Sap hath the lesse to nourish And it is a Common Experience that if you doe not pull off some Blossomes the first time a Tree bloometh it will blossome it selfe to death It were good to trie what would be the Effect if all the Blossomes were pulled from a Fruit-Tree Or the Acornes and Chesnut-buds c. from a Wilde Tree for two yeares together I suppose that the Tree will either put forth the third yeare bigger and more plentifull Fruit Or else the same yeares larger Leaues because of the Sap stored vp It hath beene generally receiued that a Plant Watered with Warme Water will come vp sooner and better than with Cold Water or with Showers But our Experiment of Watering Wheat with Warme Water as hath beene said succeeded not which may be because the Triall was too late in the Yeare vix in the End of October For the Cold then comming vpon the Seed after it was made more tender by the Warme Water might checke it There is no doubt but that Grafting for the most Part doth meliorate the Fruit. The Cause is manifest For that the Nourishment is better prepared in the Stocke than in the Crude Earth But yet note well that there be some Trees that are said to come vp more happily from the Kernell than from the Graft As the Peach and Melocotone The Cause I suppose to he for that those Plants require a Nourishment of great Moisture And though the Nourishment of the Stocke be finer and better prepared yet it is not so moist and plentifull as the Nourishment of the Earth And indeed we see those Fruits are very Cold Fruits in their Nature It hath beene receiued that a Smaller Peare grafted vpon a Stocke that beareth a greater Peare will become Great But I thinke it is as true as that of the Prime-Fruit vpon the Late Stocke And è conuerso which we reiected before For the Cions will gouerne Neuerthelesse it is probable enough that if you can get a Cions to grow vpon a Stocke of another kinde that is much moister than his owne Stocke it may make the Fruit Greater because it will yeeld more plentifull nourishment Though it is like it will make the Fruit Baser But generally the Grafting is vpon a dryer Stock As the Apple vpon a Crab The Peare vpon a Thorne c. Yet it is reported that in the Low-Conntries they will graft an Apple-Cions vpon the Stocke of a Colewort and it will beare a great flaggy Apple The Kernell of which if it be set will be a Colewort and not an Apple It were good to try whether an Apple-Cions will prosper if it be grafted vpon a Sallow or vpon a Poplar or vpon an Alder or vpon an Elme or vpon an Horse-Plumme which are the moistest of Trees I haue heard that it hath beene tryed vpon an Elme and succeeded It is manifest by Experience that Flowers Remoued wax greater because the Nourishment is more easily come by in the loose Earth It may be that Oft Regrafting of the same Cions may likewise make Fruit greater As if you take a Cions and graft it vpon a Stocke the first yeare And then cut it off and graft it vpon another Stocke the second yeare and so for a third Or fourth yeare And then let it rest it will yeeld afterward when it beareth the greater Fruit. Of Grafting there are many Experiments worth the Noting but those we reserue to a proper Place It maketh Figs better if a Fig-Tree when it beginneth to put forth Leaues haue his Top cut off The Cause is plaine for that the Sap hath the lesse to seed and the lesse way to mount But it may be the Figge will come somewhat later as was formerly touched The same may be tried likewise in other Trees It is reported that Mulberries will be fairer and the Trees more fruitfull if you bore the Truncke of the Tree thorow in seuerall places and thrust into the Places bored Wedges of some Hot Trees as Turpentine Mastick-Tree Guaiacum Inniper c. The Cause may be for that Aduentiue Heat doth cheare vp the Natiue Iuyce of the Tree It is reported that Trees will grow greater and beare better Fruit if you put Salt or Lees of Wine or Bloud to the Root The Cause may be the Encreasing the Lust or Spirit of the Root These Things being more forcible than ordinary Composts It is reported by one of the Ancients that Artichoakes will be lesse prickly and more tender if the Seeds haue their Tops dulled or grated off vpon a Stone Herbes will be tenderer and fairer if you take them out of Beds when they are newly come vp and remoue them into Pots with better Earth The Remoue from Bed to Bed was spoken of before But that was in seuerall yeares This is vpon the sudden The Cause is the same with other Remoues formerly mentioned Coleworts are reported by one of the Ancients to prosper exceedingly and to be better tasted if they be sometimes watred with Salt-Water And much more with Water mixed with Nitre The Spirit of which is lesse Adurent than Salt It is reported that Cucumbers will proue more Tender and Dainty if their Seeds be Steeped a little in Milke The Cause may be for that the Seed being mollified with the Milke will be too weake to draw the grosser Iuyce of the Earth but onely the finer The same Experiment may be made in Artichoakes and other Seeds when you would take away either their Flashinesse or Bitternesse They speake also that the like Effect followeth of Steeping in Water mixed with Honey But that seemeth to me not so probable because Honey hath too quicke a Spirit It is reported that Cucumbers will be lesse Watry and more Melonlike it in the Pit where you set them you fill it halfe way vp with Chaffe or small Stickes and then powre Earth vpon them For Cucumbers as it seemeth doe extremely affect Moisture And ouer-drinke themselues Which this Chaffe or Chips forbiddeth Nay it is further reported that if when a Cucumber is growne you fet a Pot of water about fiue or six inches distance from it it will in 24 houres shoot so much out as to touch the Pot Which if it be true it is an Experiment of an higher Nature than belongeth to this Title For it discouereth Perception in Plants to moue towards that which should helpe and comfort them though it be at a distance The ancient Tradition of the Vine is far more strange It is that if you set a Stake or Prop some distance from it
Bodies than we know any For there haue beene Cups made of them and an Image of Iupiter But it is like they were Wilde-Vines For the Vines that they vse for Wine are so often Cut and so much Digged and Dressed that their Sap spendeth into the Grapes and so the Stalke cannot increase much in Bulke The Wood of Vines is very durable without Rotting And that which is strange though no Tree hath the Twigges while they are greene so brittle yet the Wood dryed is extreme Tough And was vsed by the Captaines of Armies amongst the Romans for their Cudgells It is reported that in some Places Vines are suffered to grow like Herbs spreading vpon the Ground And that the Grapes of those Vines are very great It were good to make tryall whether Plants that vse to be borne vp by Props will not put forth greater Leaues and greater Fruits if they be laid along the Ground As Hops lâ—y Wood bine c. Quinces or Apples c. if you will keepe them long drowne them in Honey But because Honey perhaps will giue them a Taste Ouerlushious it were good to make Triall in Powder of Sugar Or in Syrrup of Wine onely Boyled to Height Both these would likewise be tried in Orenges Limons and Pomgranats For the Powder of Sugar and Syrrup of Wine will serue for more times than once The Conseruation of Fruit would be also tried in Vessells filled with fine Sand or with Powder of Chalke Or in Meale and Flower Or in Dust of Oake-wood Or in Mill. Such Fruits as you appoint for Long Keeping you must gather before they be full Ripe And in a Faire and Dry Day towards Noone And when the Wind bloweth not South And when the Moone is vnder the Earth And in Decrease Take Grapes and hang them in an Empty Vessell well Stopped And set the Vessell not in a Cellar but in some dry Place And it is said they will last long But it is reported by some they will keepe better in a Vessell halfe full of Wine so that the Grapes touch not the Wine It is reported that the Preseruing of the Stalke helpeth to preserue the Grape Especially if the Stalke be put into the Pith of Elder the Elder not touching the Fruit. It is reported by some of the Ancients that Fruit put in Bottles and the Bottles let downe into Wells vnder Water will keepe long Of Herbs and Plants some are good to eat Raw As Lettuce Endiue Purslane Tarragon Cresses Cucumbers Muske-Melons Radish c. Others onely after they are Boyled or haue Passed the Fire As Parsley Clary Sage Parsnips Turnips Asparagus Artichoakes though they also being young are eaten Raw But a Number of Herbs are not Esculent at all As Worme-wood Grasse Greeke-Corne Centory Hyssope Lauender Balme c. The Causes are for that the Herbs that are not Esculent do want the two Tastes in which Nourishment resteth Which are Fat and Sweet And haue contrariwise Bitter and Ouer-strong Tastes or a Iuyce so Crude as cannot be ripened to the degree of Nourishment Herbes and Plants that are Esculent Raw haue Fatnesse or Sweetnesse as all Esculent Fruits Such are Onions Lettuce c. But then it must be such a Fatnesse for as for Sweet Things they are in effect alwayes Esculent as is not Ouer-grosse and Loading of the Stomach For Parsnips and Leeks haue Fatnesse But it is too Grosse and Heauy without Boyling It must be also in a Substance somewhat Tender For we see Wheat Barley Artichoakes are no good Nourishment till they haue Passed the Fire But the Fire doth ripen and maketh them soft and tender and so they become Esculent As for Radish and Tarragon and the like they are for Condiments and not for Nourishment And euen some of those Herbes which are not Esculent are notwithstanding Poculent As Hop 's Broome c. Quare what Herbs are good for Drinke besides the two aforenamed For that it may perhaps ease the Charge of Brewing if they make Beere to require lesse Malt or make it last longer Parts fit for the Nourishment of Man in Plants are Seeds Roots and Fruits But chiefly Seeds and Roots For Leaues they giue no Nourishment at all or very little No more doe Flowers or Blossomes or Stalkes The Reason is for that Roots and Seeds and Fruits in as much as all Plants consist of an Oyly and Watry Substance commixed haue more of the Oyly Substance And Leaues Flowers c. of the Watry And secondly they are more Concocted For the Root which continueth euer in the Earth is still Concocted by the Earth And Fruits and Graines we see are halfe a yeare or more in Concocting Whereas Leaues are out and Perfect in a Moneth Plants for the most part are more strong both in Taste and Smell in the Seed than in the Leafe and Root The Cause is for that in Plants that are not of a Fierce and Eager Spirit the Vertue is increased by Concoction and Maturation which is euer most in the Seed But in Plants that are of a Fierce and Eager Spirit they are stronger whilest the Spirit is enclosed in the Root And the Spirits doe but weaken and dissipate when they come to the Aire and Sunne As we see it in Onions Garlicke Dragon c. Nay there be Plants that haue their Roots very Hot and Aromaticall And their Seeds rather Insipide As Ginger The Cause is as was touched before for that the Heat of those Plants is very Dissipable which vnder the Earth is contained and held in But when it commeth to the Aire it exhaleth The Iuyces of Fruits are either Watry or Oyly I reckon amongst the Watry all the Fruits out of which Drinke is expressed As the Grape the Apple the Peare the Cherry the Pomgranate c. And there are some others which though they be not in vse for Drinke yet they appeare to be of the same Nature As Plummes Serukes Mulberries Rasps Orenges Limons c. And for those Iuyces that are so fleshy as they cannot make Drinke by Expression yet perhaps they may make Drinke by Mixture of Water Poculaque admistis imitantur vitea Sorbis And it may be Heps and Brier-Berries would doe the like Those that haue Oyly Iuyce are Oliues Almonds Nuts of all sorts Pine-Apples c. And their Iuyces are all Inflammable And you must obserue also that some of the Watry Iuyces after they haue gathered Spirit will Burne and Enflame As Wine There is a Third Kinde of Fruit that is sweet without either Sharpnesse or Oylinesse Such as is the Fig and the Date It hath beene noted that most Trees and specially those that beare Mast are fruitfull but once in two yeares The Cause no doubt is the Expence of Sap For many Orchard-Trees well Cultured will beare diuers yeares together There is no Tree which besides the Naturall Fruit doth beare so many Bastard-Fruits as the Oake doth For besides the Acorne it beareth Galls Oake-Apples and certaine Oake-Nuts
Dimension But withall that notwithstanding all the Embalming which no doubt was of the best the Body was so Tender as Caesar touching but the Nose of it defaced it Which maketh mee finde it very strange that the Egyptian Mummies should be reported to be as Hard as Stone-Pitch For I finde no difference but one Which indeed may be very Materiall Namely that the Ancient AEgyptian Mummies were shrowded in a Number of Folds of Linnen besmeared with Gums in manner of Seare-Cloth Which it doth not appeare was practised vpon the Body of Alexander Neare the Castle of Catie and by the Wells of Assan in the Land of Idumea a great Part of the Way you would thinke the Sea were neare hand though it be a good distance off And it is Nothing but the Shining of the Nitre vpon the Sea-Sands Such Abundance of Nitre the Shores there doe put forth The Dead-Sea which vomiteth vp Bitumen is of that Crassitude as Liuing Bodies bound Hand and Foot cast into it haue beene borne vp and not sunke Which sheweth that all Sinking into Water is but an Ouer-Weight of the Body put into the Water in respect of the Water So that you may make Water so strong and heauy of Quicke-Siluer perhaps or the like as may beare vp Iron Of which I see no Vse but Imposture Wee see also that all Metalls except Gold for the same reason swimme vpon Quicke-Siluer It is reported that at the Feet of a Hill neare the More mortuum there is a Blacke Stone whereof Pilgrims make Fires which burneth like a Coale and diminisheth not But only waxeth Brighter and Whiter That it should doe so is not strange For wee see Iron Red Hot burneth and consumeth not But the Strangenesse is that it should continue any time so For Iron as soone as it is out of the Fire deadeth straight waies Certainly it were a Thing of great Vse and Profit if you could finde out Fuell that would burne Hot and yet last long Neither am I altogether Incredulous but there may be such Candles as they say are made of Salamanders Wooll Being a Kinde of Minerall which whiteneth also in the Burning and consumeth not The Question is this Flame must be made of somewhat And commonly it is made of some Tangible Body which hath Weight But it is not impossible perhaps that it should be made of Spirit or Vapour in a Body which Spirit on Vapour hath no Weight such as is the Matter of Ignis â—â—â—â—â—s But then you will say that that Vapour also can last but a short time To that it may be answered That by the helpe of Oile and Wax and other Candle-Stuffe the Flame may continue and the Wieke not burne Sea-Coale last longer than Char-Coale And Char-Coale of Roots being coaled into great Peeces last longer than Ordinary Char-Coale Turfe and Peat and Cow-Sheards are cheape Fuels and last long Small-Coale or Briar-Coale powred vpon Char-Coale make them last longer Sedge is a cheape Fuell to Brew or Bake with the rather because it is good for Nothing else Triall would be made of some Mixture of Sea-Coale with Earth or Chalko For if that Mixture be as the Sea-Coale-Men vse it priuily to make the Bulke of the Coale greater it is Deceit But if it be vsed purposely and be made knowne it is Sauing It is at this Day in vse in Gâ—â—â—â— to couch Pat-Sheards or Vessels of Earth in their Walls to gather the Wind from the Top and to passe it downe in Spouts into Roomes It is a Deuice for Freshnesse in great Heats And it is said there are some Roomes in Italie and Spaine for Freshnesse and Gathering the Winds and Aire in the Heats of Summer But they be but Pennings of the Winds and Enlarging them againe and Making them Reuerberate and goe round in Circles rather than this Deuice of Spouts in the Wall There would be vsed much diligence in the Choice of some Bodies and Places as it were for the Testing of Aire to discouer the Wholesomenesse or Vnwholesomenesse as well of Seasons as of the Seats of Dwellings It is certaine that there be some Heuses wherein Confitures and Pies will gather Mould more than in Others And I am perswaded that a Peece of Raw Flesh or Fish will sooner corrupt in some Aires than in Others They be noble Experiments that can make this Discouerie For they serue for a Naturall Diuination of Seasons Better than the Astronomer can by their Figures And againe they teach Men where to chuse their Dwelling for their better Health There is a Kinde of Stone about Bethlesâ— which they grinde to Powder and put into Water whereof Cattell drinke Which maketh them giue more Milke Surely there would be some better Trialls made of Mixtures of Water in Ponds for Cattell to make them more Milch Or to Fatten them Or to Keepe them from Murraine It may be Chalke and Nitre are of the best It is reported that in the Valley neare the Mountaine Carmel in Iudea there is a Sand which of all other hath most Affinitie with Glasse Insomuch as other Mineralls laid in it turne to a Glassie Substance without the Fire And againe Glasse put into it turneth into the Mother-Sand The Thing is very strange if it be true And it is likeliest to be Caused by some Naturall Fornace or Heat in the Earth And yet they doe not speake of any Eruption of Flames It were good to trie in Glasse-Workes whether the Crude Materialls of Glasse mingled with Glasse already made and Re-moulten doe not facilitate the Making of Glasse with lesse Heat In the Sea vpon the South-West of Sicilie much Corall is found It is a Sub-Marine Plan. It hath no Leanes It brancheth only when it is vnder Water It is Soft and Greene of Colour But being brought into the Aire it becommeth Hard and Shining Red as wee see It is said also to haue a White Berry But wee finde it not brought ouer with the Corall Belike it is cast away as nothing worth Inquire better of it for the Difcouerie of the Nature of the Plant. The Manns of Calabria is the best and in most Plenty They gather it from the Leafe of the Mulberry Tree But not of such Mulberry Trees as grow in the Valley's And Manns falleth vpon the Leaues by Night as other Deawes doe It should seeme that before those Deawes come vpon Trees in the Valley's they dissipate and cannot hold out It should seeme also the Mulberry-Leafe it selfe hath some Coagulating Vertue which inspissateth the Deaw for that it is not found vpon other Trees And wee see by the Silke-Worme which feedeth vpon that Leafe what 's Dainty Smooth Iuyce it hath And the Leaues also especially of the Blacke Mulberry are somewhat Bristly which may helpe to preserue the Deaw Certainly it were not amisse to obscrue a little better the Deawes that fall vpon Trees or Herbs Growing on Mountaines For it
put into Furnaces Vpon which Fire worketh not So that there are three Causes of Fixation The Euen Spreading both of the Spirits and Tangible Parts The Closenesse of the Tangible Parts And the Ieiunenesse or Extreme Comminution of Spirits Of which Three the Two First may be ioyned with a Nature Liquefiable The Last not It is Profound Contemplation in Nature to consider of the Emptinesse as we may call it or Insatisfaction of seuerall Bodies And of their Appetite to take in Others Aire taketh in Lights and Sounds and Smells and Vapours And it is most manifest that it doth it with a kinde of Thirst as not satisfied with his owne former Consistence For else it would neuer receiue them in so suddenly and easily Water and all Liquours doe hastily receiue Dry and more Terrestriall Bodies Proportionable And Dry Bodies on the other side drinke in Waters and Liquours So that as it was well said by one of the Ancients of Earthy and Watry Substances One is a Glue to another Parchment Skins Cloth c. drinke in Liquours though themselues be Entire Bodies and not Comminuted as Sand and Ashes Nor apparently Porous Metalls themselues doe receiue in readily Strong-Waters And Strong-Waters likewise doe readily pierce into Metalls and Stones And that Strong-Water will touch vpon Gold that will not touch vpon Siluer And è conuerso And Gold which seemeth by the Weight to be the Closest and most Solide Body doth greedily drinke in Quick-Siluer And it seemeth that this Reception of other Bodies is not Violent For it is many times Reciprocall and as it were with Consent Of the Cause of this and to what Axiome it may be referred consider attentiuely For as for the Pretty Assertion that Matter is like a Common Strumpet that desireth all Formes it is but a Wandring Notion Onely Flame doth not content it selfe to take in any other Body But either to ouercome and turne another Body into it Selfe as by Victory Or it Selfe to dye and goe out NATVRALL HISTORIE IX Century IT is certaine that all Bodies whatsoeuer though they haue no Sense yet they haue Perception For when one Body is applied to another there is a Kinde of Election to embrace that which is Agreeable and to exclude or expell that which is Ingrate And whether the Body be Alterant or Altered euermore a Perception precedeth Operation For else all Bodies would be alike One to Another And sometimes this Perception in some Kinde of Bodies is farre more Subtill than the Sense So that the Sense is but a dull Thing in Comparison of it Wee see a Weather-Glasse will finde the least difference of the Weather in Heat or Cold when Men finde it not And this Perception also is sometimes at Distance as well as vpon the Touch As when the Load-Stone draweth Iron or Flame fireth Naphtha of Babylon a great distance off It is therefore a Subiect of a very Noble Enquiry to enquire of the more Subtill Perceptions For it is another Key to open Nature as well as the Sense And sometimes Better And besides it is a Principall Meanes of Naturall Diuination For that which in these Perceptions appeareth early in the great Effects commeth long after It is true also that it serueth to discouer that which is Hid as well as to foretell that which is to Come As it is in many Subtill Trialls As to trie whether Seeds be old or new the Sense cannot informe But if you boile them in Water the New Seeds will sprout sooner And so of Water the Taste will not discouer the best Water But the Speedy Consuming of it and many other Meanes which we haue heretofore set downe will discouer it So in all Physiognomy the Lineaments of the Body will discouer those Naturall Inclinations of the Minde which Dissimulation will conceale or Discipline will suppresse Wee shall therefore now handle only those two Perceptions which pertaine to Naturall Diuination and Discouery Leauing the Handling of Perception in other Things to be disposed Elsewhere Now it is true that Diuination is attained by other Meanes As if you know the Causes If you know the Concomitants you may iudge of the Effect to follow And the like may be said of Discouery But wee tie our Selues here to that Diuination and Discouery chiefly which is Caused by an Early or Subtill Perception The Aptnesse or Propension of Aire or Water to Corrupt or Putrifie no doubt is to be found before it breake forth into manifest Effects of Diseases Blastings or the like Wee will therefore set downe some Prognosticks of Pestilentiall and Vnwholsome Yeares The Wind blowing much from the South without Raine And Wormes in the Oake-Apple haue beene spoken of before Also the Plenty of Frogs Grashappers Flies and the like Creatures bred of Putrefaction doth portend Pestilentiall Yeares Great and Early Heats in the Spring and namely in May without Winds portend the same And generally so doe Yeares with little Wind or Thunder Great Droughts in Summer lasting till towards the End of August and some Gentle Showres vpon them And then some Drie Weather againe Doe portend a Pestilent Summer the Yeare following For about the End of August all the Sweetnesse of the Earth which goeth into Plants and Trees is exhaled And much more if the August be dry So that nothing then can breathe forth of the Earth but a grosse Vapour which is apt to Corrupt the Aire And that Vapour by the first Showres if they be Gentle is released and commeth forth abundantly Therefore they that come abroad soone after those Showres are commonly taken with Sicknesse And in Affricke no Body will stirre out of doores after the first Showres But if the Showres come vehemently then they rather wash and fill the Earth than giue it leaue to breathe forth presently But if Drie Weather come againe then it fixeth and continueth the Corruption of the Aire vpon the first Showres begun And maketh it of ill Influence euen to the Next Summer Except a very Frostie Winter discharge it Which seldome succeedeth such Droughts The Lesser Infections of the Small Pockes Purple Feuers Agues in the Summer Precedent and houering all Winter doe portend a great Pestilence in the Summer following For Putrefaction doth not rise to his height at once It were good to lay a Peece of Raw Flesh or Fish in the Open Aire And if it Putrefie quickly it is a Signe of a Disposition in the Aire to Putrefaction And because you cannot be informed whether the Putrefaction be quicke or late except you compare this Experiment with the like Experiment in another Yeare it were not amisse in the same Yeare and at the same Time to lay one Peece of Flesh or Fish in the Open Aire and another of the same Kinde and Bignesse within Doores For I iudge that if a generall Disposition be in the Aire to Putrefie the Flesh or Fish will sooner Putrefie abroad where the Aire hath more power than in the House where it
is commonly solued by the Contrary As Ice which is congealed by Gold is dissolued by Heat Salt and Sugar which are Excocted by Heat are Dissolued by Cold and Moisture The Cause is for that these Operations are rather Returnes to their former Nature than Alterations So that the Contrary cureth As for Oyle it doth neither easily congeale with Cold nor thicken with Heat The Cause of both Effects though they be produced by Contrary Efficients seemeth to be the Same And that is because the Spirit of the Oyle by either Meanes exhaleth little For the Cold keepeth it in and the Heat except it be Vehement doth not call it forth As for Cold though it take hold of the Tangible Parts yet as to the Spirits it doth rather make them Swell than Congeale them As when Ice is congealed in a Cup the Ice will Swell in stead of Contracting And sometimes Rift Of Bodies some wee see are Hard and some Soft The Hardnesse is caused chiefly by the Ieiunenesse of the Spirits And their Imparitie with the Tangible Parts Both which if they be in a greater degree maketh them not only Hard but Fragile and lesse Enduring of Pressure As Steele Stone Glasse Drie Wood c. Softnesse commeth contrariwise by the Greater Quantitie of Spirits which euer helpeth to Induce Yeelding and Cession And by the more Equall Spreading of the Tangible Parts which thereby are more Sliding and Following As in Gold Lead Wax c. But note that Soft Bodies as wee vse the word are of two Kinds The one that easily glueth place to another Body but altereth not Bulke by Rising in other Places And therefore wee see that Wax if you put any Thing into it doth not rise in Bulke but only giueth Place For you may not thinke that in Printing of Wax the Wax riseth vp at all But only the depressed Part giueth place and the other remaineth as it was The other that altereth Bulke in the Cession As Water or other Liquours if you put a Stone or any Thing into them they giue place indeed easily but then they rise all ouer Which is a False Cession For it is in Place and not in Body All Bodies Ductile and Tensile as Metals that will be drawne into Wires Wooll and Towe that will be drawne into Yarne or Thred haue in them the Appetite of Not Discontinuing Strong Which maketh them follow the Force that pulleth them out And yet so as not to Discontinue or forsake their owne Body Viscous Bodies likewise as Pitch Wax Bird-Lime Cheese toasted will draw forth and roape But the difference betweene Bodies Fibrous and Bodies Viscous is Plaine For all Wooll and Towe and Cotton and Silke especially raw Silke haue besides their Desire of Continuance in regard of the Tenuitie of their Thred a Greedinesse of Moisture And by Moisture to ioyne and incorporate with other Thred Especially if there be a little Wreathing As appeareth by the Twisting of Thred And the Practise of Twirling about of Spindles And wee see also that Gold and Siluer Thred cannot be made without Twisting The Differences of Impressible and Not Impressible Figurable and Not Figurable Mouldable and Not Mouldable Scissile and Not Scissile And many other Passions of Matter are Plebcian Notions applied vnto the Instruments and Vses which Men ordinarily practise But they are all but the Effects of some of these Causes following Which we will Enumerate without Applying them because that would be too long The First is the Cession or Not Cession of Bodies into a Smaller Space or Roome keeping the Outward Bulke and not flying vp The Second is the Stronger or Weaker Appetite in Bodies to Continuitie and to flie Discontinuitie The Third is the Disposition of Bodies to Contract or Not Contract And againe to Extend or Not Extend The Fourth is the Small Quantitie or Great Quantitie of the Pneumaticall in Bodies The Fifth is the Nature of the Pneumalicall whether is â—â— Natiue Spirit of the Body or Common Aire The Sixth is the Nature of the Natiue Spirits in the Body whether they be Actiue and Eager or Dull and Gentle The Seuenth is the Emission or Detention of the Spirits in Bodies The Eighth is the Dilatation or Contraction of the Spirits in Bodies while they are detained The Ninth is the Collocation of the Spirits in Bodies whether the Collocation be Equall or Vnequall And againe whether the Spirits be Coaceruate or Diffused The Tenth is the Densitie or Raritie of the Tangible Parts The Eleuenth is the Equalitie or Inequalitie of the Tangible Parts The Twelfth is the Disgestion or Cruditie of the Tangible Parts The Thirteenth is the Nature of the Matter whether Sulphureous or Mercuriall Watrie or Oylie Drie and Terrestriall or Moìst and Liquid which Natures of Sulphureous and Mercuriall seeme to be Natures Radicall and Principiall The Fourteenth is the Placing of the Tangible Parts in Length or Transuerse As it is in the Warpe and the Woofe of Textiles More Inward or More Outward c. The Fifteenth is the Porofitie or Imporositie betwixt the Tangible Parts And the Greatnesse or Smalnesse of the Pores The Sixteenth is the Collocation and Pesture of the Pores There may be more Causes but these doe occurre for the Present Take Lead and melt it and in the Middest of it when it beginneth to Congeale make a little Dint or Hole and put Quicke-Siluer wrapped in a Peece of Linnen into that Hole and the Quicke-Siluer will fix and run no more and endure the Hammer This is a Noble Instance of Induration by Consent of one Body with another and Motion of Excitation to Imitate For to ascribe it only to the Vapour of Lead is lesse Probable Quare whether the Fixing may be in such a degree as it will be Figured like other Metals For if so you may make Works of it for some purposes so they come not neere the Fire Sugar hath put downe the vse of Honey Insomuch as wee haue lost those Obseruations and Preparations of Honey which the Ancients had when it was more in Price First it seemeth that there was in old time Tree-Honey as well as Bee-Honey Which was the Teare or Bloud issuing from the Tree Insomuch as one of the Ancients relateth that in Trebisond there was Honey issuing from the Box-Trees which made Men Mad. Againe in Ancient time there was a Kinde of Honey which either of the owne Nature or by Art would grow as Hard as Sugar And was not so Lushious as Ours They had also a Wine of Honey which they made thus They crushed the Honey into a great Quantitie of Water and then strained the Liquour After they boyled it in a Copper to the halfe Then they powred it into Earthen Vessels for a small time And after tunned it into Vessels of Wood and kept it for many years They haue also at this day in Russia and those Northerne Countries Mead Simple which well made and seasoned is a good
And I wish the same to be tried outwardly in Vapours The One is Nitre which I would haue dissoluted in Malmesey or GreekeWine and so the Smell of the Wine taken Or if you would haue it more forcible poure of it vpon a Fire-pan well heated as they doe rose-Rose-Water and Vinegar The other is the Distilled Water of Wilde Poppy which I wish to be mingled at halfe with Rose-Water and so taken with some Mixture of a few Clones in a Perfuming-Pan The like would be done with the Distilled Water of Saffron Flowers Smells of Muske and Amber and Ciuit are thought to further Venereous Appetite Which they may doe by the Refreshing and Calling forth of the Spirits Incense and Nidorous Smells such as were of Sacrifices were thought to Intoxicate the Braine and to dispose Men to Deuotion Which they may doe by a kinde of Sadnesse and Contristation of the Spirits And partly also by Heating and Exalting them Wee see that amongst the Iewes the Principall Perfume of the Sanctuary was forbidden all Common Vses There be some Perfumes prescribed by the Writers of Naturall Magicke which procure Pleasant Dreames And some others as they say that procure Propheticall Dreames As the Seeds of Flax Fleawort c. It is certaine that Odours doe in a small Degree Nourish Especially the Odour of Wine And we see Men a hungred doe loue to smell Hot Bread It is related that Democritus when he lay a dying heard a Woman in the House complaine that she should be kept from being at a Feast and Solemnity which she much desired to see because there would be a Corps in the House Whereupon he caused Loaues of New Bread to be sent for and opened them And powred a little Wine into them And so kept himselfe aliue with the Odour of them till the Feast was past I knew a Gentleman that would fast sometimes three or foure yea fiue dayes without Meat Bread or Drinke But the same Man vsed to haue continually a great Wispe of Herbes that he smelled on And amongst those Herbes some Esculent Herbs of strong Sent As Onions Garlicke Leekes and the like They doe vse for the Accident of the Mother to burne Feathers and other Things of Ill Odour And by those Ill Smells the Rising of the Mother is put downe There be Aires which the Physitians aduise their Patients to remoue vnto in Consumptions or vpon Recouery of Long Sicknessess Which commonly are Plaine Champaignes but Grasing and not Ouen-growne with Heath or the like Or else Timber-Shades as in Forrests and the like It is noted also that Groues of Bayes doe forbid Pestilent Aires Which was accounted a great Cause of the Wholesome Aire of Antiochia There be also some Soyles that put forth Odorate Herbes of themselues As Wilde Thyme Wilde Maioram Penny-Roiall Camomill And in which the BriarRoses smell almost like Muske-Roses Which no doubt are Signes that doe discouer an Excellent Aire It were good for Men to thinke of hauing Healthfull Aire in their Houses Which will neuer be if the Roomes be Low-roosed or full of Windowes and Doores For the one maketh the Aire Close and not Fresh And the other maketh it Exceeding Vnequall Which is a great Enemy to Health The Windowes also should not be high vp to the Roofe which is in vse for Beauty and Magnificence but Low Also Stone-Walls are not wholesome But Timber is more wholesome And especially Brick Nay it hath beene vsed by some with great Successe to make their Walls thicke And to put a Lay of Chalke betweene the Brickes to take away all Dampishnesse These Emissions as we said before are handled and ought to be handled by themselues vnder their Proper Titles That is Visibles and Andibles each a-part In this Place it shall suffice to giue some generall Obseruations Common to both First they seeme to be Incorporeall Secondly they Worke Swiftly Thirdly they Worke at Large Distances Fourthly in Curious Varieties Fifthly they are not Effectiue of any Thing Nor leaue no Worke behinde them But are Energies meerely For their Working vpon Mirrours and Places of Eccho doth not alter any Thing in those Bodies But it is the same Action with the Originall onely Repercussed And as for the Shaking of windowes or Rarefying the Aire by Great Noyses And the Heat caused by Burning-Glasses They are rather Concomitants of the Andible and Visible Species than the Effects of them Sixthly they seeme to be ofso Tender and Weake a Nature as they affect onely such a Rare and Attenuate Substance as is the spirit of Liuing Creatures It is mentioned in some Stories that where Children haue been Exposed or taken away young from their Parents And that afterwards they haue approached to their Parents presence the Parents though they haue not knowne them haue had a Secret Ioy or Other Alteration thereupon There was an AEgyptian South-Sayer that made Anthonius beleeue that his Genius which otherwise was Braue and Confident was in the Presence of Octanianus Caesar Poore and Cowardly And therefore he aduised him to absent himselfe as much as he could and remoue far from him This South-Sayer was thought to be suborned by Cleopatra to make him liue in AEgypt and other Remote Places from Rome Howsouer the Conceit of a Perdominant or Mastering Spirit of one Man ouer Another is Ancient and Receiued still euen in Vulgar Opinion There are Conceits that some Men that are of an Ill and Melancholy Nature doe incline the Company into which they come to be Sad and Ill disposed And contrariwise that Others that are of a Iouiall Nature doe dispose the Company to be Merry and Cheerefull And againe that some Men are Lucky to be kept Company with and Employed And Others Vnlucky Certninly it is agreeable to Reason that there are at the least some Light Effluxions from Spirit to Spirit when Men are in Presence one with another as well as from Body to Body It hath beene obserued that Old Men who haue loued Toung Company and beene Conuersant continually with them haue beene of Long Life Their Spirits as it seemeth being Recreated by such Company Such were the Ancient Sophists and Rhetoricians Which euer had Young Auditours and Disciples As Gorgias Protagoras Isocrates c. Who liued till they were an Hundred yeares Old And so likewise did many of the Grammarians and Schoole-Masters such as was Orbilius c. Audacity and Confidence doth in Ciuill Businesse so great Effects as a Man may reasonably doubt that besides the very Daring and Earnestnesse and Persisting and Importunity there should be some Secret Binding and Stooping of other Mens Spirits to such Persons The Affections no doubt doe make the Spirits more Powerfull and Actiue And especially those Affections which draw the Spirits into the Eyes Which are two Loue and Enuy which is called Oculus Malus As for Loue the Platonists some of them goe so farre as to hold that the Spirit of the Louer doth passe into the Spirits of
1. ibid. Of Bodies Sulphureous and Mercuriall Exp. 5. pag. 95 Of the Chameleon Exp. 1. pag. 96 Of Subterrany Fires Exp. 1. pag. 97 Of Nitrous Water Exp. 1. ibid. Of Congealing of Aire Exp. 1. ibid. Of Congealing Water into Crystall Exp. 1. ibid. Of Preseruing the Smell and Colour in Rose-Leaues Exp. 1. pag. 98 Of the Lasting of Flame Exp. 10. ibid. Of Infusions or Burialls of diuers Bodies in Earth Exp. 5. pag. 101 Of the Affects of Mens Bodies from seuerall Winds Exp. 1. pag. 102 Of Winter and Summer Sicknesses Exp. 1. ibid. Of Pestilentiall Yeares Exp. 1. ibid. Of Epidemicall Diseases Exp. 1. ibid. Of Preseruation of Liquours in Wells or deepe Vaults Exp. 1. ibid. Of Stutting Exp. 1. pag. 103 Of Sweet Smells Exp. 4. ibid. Of the Goodnesse and Choice of Waters Exp. 7. pag. 104 Of Temperate Heats vnder the AEquinoctiall Exp. 1. pag. 105 Of the Colouration of Blacke and Tawney Moores Exp. 1. ibid. Of Motion after the instant of Death Exp. 1. pag. 106 Century V. OF Accelerating or Hastening forward Germination Exper. 12. pag. 109 Of Retarding or putting backe Germination Exp. 9. pag. 112 Of Meliorating or making better Fruits and Plants Exp. 55. pag. 114 Of Compound Fruits and Flowers Exp. 3. pag. 122 Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants Exp. 19. pag. 123 Of Making Herbs and Fruits Medicinable Exp. 2. pag. 128 Century VI. OF Curiosities about Fruits and Plants Exp. 17. pag. 131 Of the Degenerating of Plants And of their Transmutation one into another Exp. 14. pag. 135 Of the Proceritie and Lownesse of Plants And of Artificiall Dwarsing them Exp. 5. pag. 138 Of the Ruatments of Plants And of the Excrescences of Plants or Super-Plants Exp. 26. ibid. Of producing Perfect Plants without Seed Exp. 11. pag. 143 Of Forraine Plants Exp. 3. pag. 144 Of the Seasons of seuerall Plants Exp. 6. pag. 145 Of the Lasting of Plants Exp. 5. pag. 146 Of seuerall Figures of Plants Exp. 3. pag. 147 Of some principall Differences in Plants Exp. 4. pag. 148 Of all Manner of Composts and Helps for Ground Exp. 6. pag. 149 Century VII OF the Affinities and Differences betweene Plants and Bodies Inanimate Exp. 6. pag. 153 Of Affinities and Differences betweene Plants and Liuing Creatures And of the Consiners and Participles of Both. Exp. 3. pag. 154 Of Plants Experiments Promiscuous Exp. 67. pag. 155 Of Healing of Wounds Exp. 1. pag. 169 Of Fat diffused in Flesh. Exp. 1. ibid. Of Ripening Drinke speedily Exp. 1. pag. 170 Of Pilositie and Plumage Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Quicknesse of Motion in Birds Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Clearnesse of the Sea the North Wind blowing Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Different Heats of Fire and Boyling Water Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Qualification of Heat by Moisture Exp. 1. pag. 171 Of Yawning Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Hiccough Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sneezing Exp. 1. pag. 172 Of the Tendernesse of the Teeth Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Tongue Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Mouth out of Taste Exp. 1. ibid. Of some Prognosticks of Pestilentiall Seasons Exp. 1. ibid. Of Speciall Simples for Medicines Exp. 1. ibid. Of Venus Exp. 3. pag. 173 Of the Infecta or Creatures bred of Putrefaction Exp. 3. pag. 174 Of Leaping Exp. 1. pag. 177 Of the Pleasures and Displeasures of Hearing and of the other Senses Exp. 1. ibid. Century VIII OF Veines of Earth Medicinall Exp. 1. pag. 181 Of Sponges Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sea-Fish in Fresh Waters Exp. 1. pag. 182 Of Attraction by Similitude of Substance Exp. 1. ibid. Of Certaine Drinks in Turkey Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sweat Exp. 6. pag. 183 Of the Glo-Worme Exp. 1. pag. 184 Of the Impressions vpon the Body from seuerall Passions of the Mind Exp. 10. ibid. Of Drunkennesse Exp. 4. pag. 187 Of the Hurt or Helpe of Wine taken moderately Exp. 1. pag. 188 Of Catterpillers Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Flyes Cantharides Exp. 1. pag. 189 Of Lassitude Exp. 2. ibid. Of Casting the Skin and Shell in some Creatures Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Postures of the Body Exp. 3. pag. 190 Of Pestilentiall Yeares Exp. 1. ibid. Of some Prognosticks of Hard Winters Exp. 1. ibid. Of certaine Medicines that condense and releeue the Spirits Exp. 1. pag. 191 Of paintings of the Body Exp. 1. ibid. Of the vse of Bathing and Annointing Exp. 1. ibid. Of Chamoletting of Paper Exp. 1. pag. 192 Of Cuttle-Inke Exp. 1. ibid. Of Earth increasing in Weight Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sleepe Exp. 3. ibid. Of Teeth and Hard Substances in the Bodies of Liuing Creatures Exp. 11. pag. 193 Of the Generation and Bearing of Liuing Creatures in the Wombe Exp. 3. pag. 195 Of Species Visible Exp. 2. pag. 196 Of Impulsion and Percussion Exp. 3. pag. 197 Of Titillation Exp. 1. pag. 198 Of Scarcity of Raine in AEgypt Exp. 1. ibid. Of Clarification Exp. 1. ibid. Of Plants without Leaues Exp. 1. pag. 199 Of the Materialls of Glasse Exp. 1. ibid. Of Prohibition of Putrefaction and the long Conseruation of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of Abundance of Nitre in certaine Sea-Shoares Exp. 1. ibid. Of Bodies borne vp by Water Exp. 1. ibid. Of Fuell consuminglittle or nothing Exp. 1. ibid. Of Cheape Fuell Exp. 1. pag. 201 Of Gathering of Wind for Freshnesse Exp. 1. ibid. Of Trialls of Aires Exp. 1. ibid. Of Increasing Milke in Milch-Beasts Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sand of the Nature of Glasse Exp. 1. pag. 202 Of the Growth of Corall Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Gathering of Manna Exp. 1. ibid. Of Correcting of Wines Exp. 1. ibid. Of Bitumen one of the Materialls of Wilde-Fire Exp. 1. pag. 203 Of Plaster growing as hard as Marble Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Cure of some Vlcers and Hurts Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Healthfulnesse or Vnhealthfulnesse of the Southerne Wind. Exp. 1. ibid. Of Wounds made with Brasse and with Iron Exp. 1. ibid. Of Mortification by Cold. Exp. 1. pag. 204 Of Weight Exp. 1. ibid. Of Super-Natation of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Flying of Vnequall Bodies in the Aire Exp. 1. ibid. Of Water that it may be the Medium of Sounds Exp. 1. pag. 205 Of the Flight of the Spirits vpon odious Obiects Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Super-Reflexion of Eccho's Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Force of Imagination imitating that of the Sense Exp. 1. pag. 206 Of Preseruation of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Growth or Multiplying of Metalls Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Drowning the more base Metall in the more Pretious Exp. 1. ibid. Of Fixation of Bodies Exp. 1. pag. 207 Of the Restlesse Nature of Things in Themselues and their Desire to Change Exp. 1. ibid. Century IX OF Perception in Bodies Insensible tending to Naturall Diuination and Subtill Trialls Exp. 30. pag. 211 Of the Causes of Appetite in the Stomach Exp. 1. pag. 217 Of Sweetnesse of Odour from the Rain-Bow Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sweet Smells Exp. 1. pag. 218 Of the Corporeall Substance of Smells Exp. 1. ibid. Of Fetide and Fragrant Odours Exp. 1. ibid. Of the