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
such as haue some Degree of Heat For the Banishing of the Heat must needs leaue any Body Cold. This we see in the Operation of Opium and Stupefactiues vpon the Spirits of liuing Creatures And it were not amisse to trie Opium by laying it vpon the Top of a Weather-glasse to see whether it will contract the Aire But I doubt it will not succeed For besides that the vertue of Opium will hardly penetrate thorow such a Body as Glasse I conceiue that Opium and the like make the Spirits fly rather by Malignity then by Cold. Seuenthly the same Effect must follow vpon the Exhaling or Drawing out of the warme Spirits that doth vpon the Flight of the Spirits There is an Opinion that the Moone is Magneticall of Heat as the Sun is of Cold and Moisture It were not amisse therefore to trie it with Warme waters The one exposed to the Beames of the Moone the other with some Skreene betwixt the Beames of the Moone and the water As we vse to the Sunne for Shade And to see whether the former will coole sooner And it were also good to inquire what other Meanes there may be to draw forth the Exile heat which is in the Aire for that may be a Secret of great Power to Produce Cold weather We haue formerly set downe the Meanes of turning Aire into water in the Experiment 27. But because it is Magnale Nature And tendeth to the subduing of a very great effect And is also of Manifold vse we will adde some Instances in Consort that giue light thereunto It is reported by some of the Ancients that Sailers haue vsed euery Night to hang Fleeces of wooll on the sides of their Ships the Wooll towards the water And that they haue crushed fresh Water out of them in the Morning for their vse And thus much we haue tried that a Quantitie of Wooll tied loose together being let downe into a deepe Well And hanging in the Middle some three Fathome from the water for a night in the Winter time increased in weight as I now remember to a fifth Part. It is reported by one of the Ancients that in Lydia neare Pergamus there were certaine Worke-men in time of Warres fled into Caues And the Mouth of the Caues being stopped by the Enemies they were famished But long time after the dead Bones were found And some Vessels which they had carried with them And the vessels full of Water And that Water thicker and more towards Ice than Common Water which is a Notable Instance of Condensation and Induration by Buriall under Earth in Caues for long time And of version also as it should seeme of Aire into Water if any of those vessels were Emptie Trie therefore a small Bladder hung in Snow And the like in Nitre And the like in Quick-filuer And if you finde the Bladders fallen or shrunke you may be sure the Aire is condensed by the Cold of those Bodies As it would be in a Caue vnder Earth It is reported of very good credit that in the East Indies if you set a Tub of Water open in a Roome where Cloues are kept it will be drawne dry in 24 houres Though it stand at some distance from the Cloues In the Countrey they vse many times in deceit when their wooll is new shorne to set some Pailes of water by in the same Roome to increase the weight of the wooll But it may be that the Heat of the Wooll remaining from the body of the Sheepe or the Heat gathered by the lying close of the wooll helpeth to draw the watry Vapour But that is nothing to the Version It is Reported also credibly that Wooll new shorne being laid casually vpon a Vessell of Verinyce after some time had drunke vp a great part of the Veriuyce though the Vessell were whole without any Flaw and had not the Bung-hole open In this Instance there is vpon the by to be noted the Percolation or Suing of the Veriuyce through the wood For Veriuyce of it selfe would neuer haue passed thorow the wood So as it seemeth it must be first in a kinde of Vapour before it passe It is especially to be noted that the Cause that doth facilitate the Version of Aire into water when the Aire is not in grosse but subtilly mingled with Tangible Bodies is as hath beene partly touched before for that Tangible Bodies haue an Antipathy with Aire And if they finde and Liquid Body that is more dense neare them they will draw it And after they haue drawne it they will condense it more and in effect incorporate it For wee see that a Spunge or Wooll or Sugar or a Woollen cloth being put but in part in Water or Wine will draw the Liquour higher and beyond the place where the Water or wine commeth We see also that Wood Lute-strings and the like doe swell in moist Seasons As appeareth by the Breaking of the Strings the Hard Turning of the Pegs and the Hard drawing forth of Boxes and Opening of Wainseet deeres which is a kinde of Infusion And is much like to an Infusion in water which will make wood to swell As we see in the Filling of the Chops of Boules by laying them in water But for that part of these Experiments which concerneth Attraction we will reserue it to the proper Title of Attraction There is also a Version of Aire into water seene in the Sweating of Marbles and other Stones And of Wainsces before and in moist weather This must be either by some Moisture the Body yeeldeth Or else by the Moist Aire thickned against the hard body But it is plaine that it is the latter For that we see Wood painted with Oyle Colour will sooner gather drops in a moist Night than Wood alone which is caused by the Smoothnesse and Closenesse which letteth in no part of the Vapour and so turneth it backe and thickeneth it into Dew We see also that Breathing vpon a Glasse or Smooth body giueth a Dew And in Frosty Mornings such as we call Rime frosts you shall finde drops of Dew vpon the Inside of Glasse-windowes And the Frost it selfe vpon the ground is but a Version or Condensation of the Moist vapours of the Night into a watry substance Dewes likewise and Raine are but the Returnes of Moist vapours Condensed The Dew by the Cold onely of the Sunnes departure which is the gentler Cold Raines by the Cold of that which they call the Middle Region of the Aire which is the more violent Cold. It is very probable as hath beene touched that that which will turne Water into Ice will likewise turne Aire Some Degree nearer vnto water Therefore trie the Experiment of the Artificiall Turning water into Ice whereof we shall speake in another place with Aire in place of water and the Ice about it And although it be a greater Alteration to turne Aire into water than water into Ice yet there is this Hope that by Continuing the Aire longer time
vpon the Water But then it will come to the Eare Not in the Instant of the Shooting off but it will come an Houre or more later This must needs be a Continuance of the First Sound For there is no Trepidation which should renew it And the Touching of the Ordnance would not extinguish the Sound the sooner So that in great Sounds the Continuance is more than Momentany To try exactly the time wherein Sound is Delated Let a Man stand in a Steeple and haue with him a Taper And let some Vaile be put before the Tapar And let another Man stand in the Field a Mile off Then let him in the Steeple strike the Bell And in the same Instant withdraw the Vaile And so let him in the Field tell by his Pulse what distance of Time there is betweene the Light seene and the Sound heards For it is certaine that the Delation of Light is in an Instant This may be tried in farre greater Distances allowing greater Lights and Sounds It is generally knowne and obserued that Light and the Obiect of Sight moue swifter than Sound For we see the Flash of a Peece is seene sooner than the Noise is heard And in Flewing wood if one be some distance off he shall see the Arme lifted vp for a second Stroke before he heare the Noise of the first And the greater the Distance the greater is the Preuention As we see in Thunder which is farre off where the Lightning Precedeth the Cracke a good space Colours when they represent themselues to the Eye fade not nor melt not by Degrees but appeare still in the same Strength But Sounds melt and vanish by little and little The Cause is for that Colours participate nothing with the Motion of the Aire but Sounds doe And it is a plaine Argument that Sound participateth of some Locall Motion of the Aire as a Cause Sinè quônon in that it perisheth so suddenly For in euery Section or Impulsion of the Aire the Aire doth suddenly restore and reunite it selfe which the Water also doth but nothing so swiftly In the Trialls of the Passage or Not Passage of Sounds you must take heed you mistake not the Passing By the Sides of a Body for the Passing thorow a Body And therefore you must make the Intercepting Body very close For Sound will passe thorow a small Chincke Where Sound passeth thorow a Hard or Close Body as thorow Water thorow a Wall thorow Metall as in Hawkes Bells stopped c. the Hard or Close Body must be but thinne and small For else it deadeth and extinguisheth the Sound vtterly And therefore in the Experiment of Speaking in Aire vnder Water the Voice must not be very deepe within the Water For then the Sound pierceth not So if you speake on the further side of a Close Wall if the Wall be very thicke you shall not be heard And if there were an Hogshead emptie whereof the Sides were some two Foot thicke and the Bunghole stopped I conceiue the Resounding Sound by the Communication of the Outward Aire with the Aire within would be little or none But onely you shall heare the Noise of the Outward Knocke as if the Vessell were full It is certaine that in the Passage of Sounds thorow Hard Bodies the Spirit of Pneumaticall Part of the Hard body it selfe doth cooperate But much better when the Sides of that Hard Body are strucke than when the Percussion is onely within without Touch of the Sides Take therefore a Hawkes Bell the holes stopped vp and hang it by a threed within a Bottle Glasse And stop the Mouth of the Glasse very close with Wax And then shake the Glasse and see whether the Bell giue any Sound at all or how weake But note that you must in stead of the Threed take a Wire Or else let the Glasse haue a great Belly lest when you shake the Bell it dash vpon the Sides of the Glasse It is plaine that a very Long and Downe-right Arch for the Sound to passe will extinguish the Sound quite So that that Sound which would be heard ouer a wall will not be heard ouer a Church Nor that Sound which will be heard if you stand some distance from the wall will be heard if you stand close vnder the Wall Soft and Foraminous Bodies in the first Creation of the Sound will dead it For the Striking against Cloth or Furre will make little Sound As hath beene said But in the Passage of the Sound they will admit it better than Harder Bodies As we see that Curtaines and Hangings will not stay the Sound much But Glasse-windowes if they be very Close will checke a Sound more than the like Thicknesse of Cloth Wee see also in the Rumbling of the Belly how easily the Sound passeth thorow the Guts and Skin It is worthy the Enquiry whether Great Sounds As of Ordnance or Bells become not more Weake and Exile when they passe thorow Small Crannies For the Subtilties of Articulate Sounds it may be may passe thorow Small Crannies not confused But the Magnitude of the Sound perhaps not so well The Mediums of Sounds are Aire Soft and Porous Bodies Also Water And Hard Bodies refuse not altogether to be Mediums of Sounds But all of them are dull and vnapt Deferents except the Airè In Aire the Thinner or Drier Aire carrieth not the Sound so well as the more Dense As appeareth in Night Sounds And Euening Sounds And Sounds in moist Weather and Southerne Winds The reason is already mentioned in the Title of Maioration of Sounds Being for that Thinne Aire is better pierced but Thicke Aire preserueth the Sound better from Wast Let further Triall be made by Hollowing in Mists and Gentle Showers For it may be that will somewhat dead the Sound How farreforth Flame may be a Medium of Sounds especially of such Sounds as are created by Aire and not betwixt Hard Bodies let it be tried in Speaking where a Bonsire is betweene But then you must allow for some disturbance the Noise that the Flame it selfe maketh Whether any other Liquours being made Mediums cause a Diuersity of Sound from Water it may be tried As by the Knapping of the Tongs Or Striking of the Bottome of a vessell filled either with Milke or with Oyle which though they be more light yet are they more vnequall Bodies than Aire Of the Natures of the Mediums we haue now spoken As for the Disposition of the said Mediums it doth consist in the Penning or not Penning of the Aire Of which we haue spoken before in the Title of Delation of Sounds It consisteth also in the Figure of the Concaue through which it passeth Of which we will speake next How the Figures of Pipes or Concaues through which Sounds passe Or of other Bodies deferent conduce to the Varietie and Alteration of the Sounds Either in respect of the Greater Quantitie or lesse Quantitie of Aire which the Concaues receiue Or in respect of
Corruption So we finde that Salt-water corrupteth not so soone as Fresh And Salting of Oisters and Powdring of Meat keepeth them from Putrefaction It would be tried also whether Chalke put into Water or Drinke doth not preserue it from Putrefying or speedy Souring So wee see that Strong Beere will last longer than Small And all Things that are hot and Aromaticall doe helpe to preserue Liquours or Powders c. Which they doe as well by Strengthning the Spirits as by Soaking out the loose Moisture The Seuenth is Separation of the Cruder Parts and thereby making the Body more Equall for all vnperfect Mixture is apt to Putrefie And Watry Substances are more apt to Putrefie than Oyly So we see Distilled Waters will last longer than Raw waters And Things that haue passed the Fire doe last longer than those that haue not passed the Fire As Dried Peares c. The Eighth is the Drawing forth continually of that part where the Putrefaction beginneth Which is commonly the Loose and watry Moisture Not onely for the Reason before giuen that it prouoketh the Radicall Moisture to come forth with it But because being detained in the Body the Putrefaction taking hold of it insecteth the rest As we see in the Embalming dead Bodies And the same Reason is of Preseruing Herbs or Fruits or Flowers in Branne or Meale The Ninth is the Commixiture of any Thing that is more Oily or Sweet For such Bodies are least apt to Putrefie the Aire working little vpon them And they not putrefying preserue the rest And therefore we see Syrrups and Ointments will last longer than Iuyces The Tenth is the Commixture of somewhat that is Dry For Putrefaction beginneth first from the Spirits And then from the Moisture And that that is dry is vnapt to puttrefie And therefore Smoake preserueth Flesh As wee see in Bacon and Neats-Tongues and Martlemas Beese c. The Opinion of some of the Ancients that Blowne Aires doe preserue Bodies longer than other Aires seemeth to Mee Probable For that the Blowne Aires being Ouer-charged and Compressed will hardly receiue the Exhaling of any Thing but rather repulse it It was tried in a Blowne Bladder whereinto Flesh was put and likewise a Flower and it sorted not For Dry Bladders will not Blow And New Bladders rather further Putrefaction The way were therfore blow strongly with a Paire of Bellowes into a Hogshead putting into the Hogshead before that which you would haue preserued And in the instant that you withdraw the Bellowes stop the Hole close The Experiments of Wood that Shineth in the Darke we haue diligently driuen and pursued The rather for that of all Things that giue Light here below it is the most Durable And hath least Apparent Motion Fire and Flame are in continuall Expence Sugar shineth onely while it is in Scraping And Salt-water while it is in Dashing Glowing â—â—es haue their Shining while they liue or a little after Onely Scales of Fishes Putrified seeme to be of the same Nature with Shining Wood And it is true that all Putrefaction hath with it an Inward Motion as well as Fire or Light The Triall sorted thus 1. The Shining is in some Peeces more Bright in some more Diâ—â—â— but the most Bright of all doth not attaine to the Light of a Glow-wâ—â—â—â— 2. The Woods that haue beene tried to shine are chiefly Sallow and Willow Also the Aâ—â— and Husle It may be it holdeth in others 3. Both Roots and Bodies doe shine but the Roots better 4. The Colour of the Shining Part by Day-light is in some Peeces White in some Peeces inclining to Red Which in the Countrey they call the White and Red Garret 5. The Part that Shineth is for the most part somewhat Safe and Moist to feele to But some was sound to be Firme and Hard So as it might be figured into a Crosse or into Beads c. But you must not looke to haue an Image or the like in any Thing that is Lightsome For euen a face in Iron red Hot will not be seene the Light confounding the small differences of Lightsome and Darksome which shew the figure 6. There was the Shining Part pared off till you came to that that did not Shine But within two Dayes the Part Contiguous began also to Shine being laid abroad in the Dew So as it seemeth the Putrefaction spreadeth 7. There was other dead Wood of like kinde that was Laid abroad which Shined not at the first But after a Nights lying abroad began to Shine 8. There was other Wood that did First Shine And being laid dry in the House within fiue or six daies Lost the Shining And laid abroad againe Recouered the Shining 9. Shining woods being laid in a Dry Roome within a Seuen night lose their Shining But being laid in a Cellar or Darke Roome kept the Shining 10. The Boring of Holes in that kinde of Wood and then laying it abroad seemeth to conduce to make it Shine The Cause is for that all Solution of Continuity doth helpe on Putrefaction as was touched before 11. No Wood hath beene yet tried to Shine that was cut downe aliue but such as was Rotted both in Stocke and Root while it grew 12. Part of the Wood that Shined was Steeped in Oyle and retained the Shining a Forthnight 13. The like succeeded in some Steeped in Water and much better 14. How long the Shining will continue if the Wood be laid abroad euery Night and taken in and Sprinckled with Water in the Day is not yet tryed 15. Triall was made of laying it abroad in Frostie weather which hurt it not 16. There was a great Peece of a Root which did shine and the Shining Part was Cut off till no more Shined Yet after two Nights though it were kept in a drie Roome it got a Shining The Bringing forth of liuing Creatures may be accelerated in two Respects The one if the Embryon ripeneth and perfecteth sooner The other if there be some Cause from the Mothers Body of Expulsion or Putting it downe whereof the Former is good and argueth Strength The Latter is ill and commeth by Accident or Disease And therefore the Ancient Obseruation is true that the Childe borne in the Seuenth Moâ—â—â—th doth commonly well But Borne in the Eighth Moneth doth for the most part die But the Cause assigned is Fabulous Which is that in the Eighth Moneth should be the Returne of the Raigne of the Planet Saturne which as they say is a Planet Maligne whereas in the Seuenth is the Raigne of the Moone which is a Planet Propitious But the true Cause is for that where there is so great a Preuention of the Ordinary time it is the lustinesse of the Childe But when it is lesse it is some Indisposition of the Mother To Accelerate Growth or Stature it must proceed Either from the Plentie of the Nourishment Or from the Nature of the Nourishment Or from the Quickening and Exciting of the Naturall Heat
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
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
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
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
But in the first Kinde it is more Diffused and more Mastered by the Grosser Parts which the Spirits doe but disgest But in Drinkes the Spirits doe raigne and finding lesse Opposition of the Parts become themselues more Strong Which causeth also more Strength in the Liquour Such as if the Spirits be of the Hotter Sort the Liquour becommeth apt to Burne But in Time it causeth likewise when the Higher Spirits are Euapourated more Sourenesse It hath beene obserued by the Ancients that Plates of Metall and especially of Brasse applied presently to a Blow will keepe it downe from Swelling The Cause is Repercussion without Humectation or Entrance of any Body for the Plate hath onely a Virtuall Cold which doth not search into the Hurt Whereas all Plasters and Ointments doe enter Surely the Cause that Blowes and Bruises enduce Swellings is for that the Spirits resorting to Succour the Part that Laboureth draw also the Humours with them For we see that it is not the Repulse and the Returne of the Humour in the Part Strucken that causeth it For that Gouts and Tooth-Aches cause Swelling where there is no Percussion at all The Nature of the Orris Root is almost Singular For there be few Odoriferous Roots And in those that are in any degree Sweet it is but the same Sweetnesse with the Wood or Leafe But the Orris is not Sweet in the Leafe Neither is the Flower any thing so Sweet as the Root The Root seemeth to haue a Tender dainty Heat Which when it commeth aboue Ground to the Sunne and the Aire vanisheth For it is a great Mollifier And hath a Smell like a Violet It hath been obserued by the Ancients that a great Vessell full drawne into Bottles And then the Liquour put againe into the Vessell will not fill the Vessell againe so full as it was but that it may take in more Liquour And that this holdeth more in Wine than in Water The Cause may be Triuiall Namely by the Expence of the Liquour in regard some may sticke to the Sides of the Bottles But there may be a Cause more Subtill Which is that the Liquour in the Vessell is not so much Compressed as in the Bottle Because in the Vessell the Liquour meeteth with Liquour chiefly But in the Bottles a Small Quantity of Liquour meeteth with the Sides of the Bottles which Compresse it so that it doth not Open againe Water being contiguous with Aire Cooleth it but Moisteneth it not except it Vapour The Cause is for that Heat and Cold haue a Virtuall Transition without Communication of Substance but Moisture not And to all Madefaction there is required an Imbibition But where the Bodies are of such seuerall Leuity and Grauity as they Mingle not there can follow no Imbibition And therefore Oyle likewise lyeth at the Top of the Water without Commixture And a Drop of Water running swiftly ouer a Straw or Smooth Body wetteth not Starre-light Nights yea and bright Moone-shine Nights are Colder than Cloudy Nights The Cause is the Drinesse and Finenesse of the Aire which thereby becommeth more Piercing and Sharpe And therefore Great Continents are colder than Islands And as for the Moone though it selfe inclineth the Aire to Moisture yet when it shineth bright it argueth the Aire is dry Also Close Aire is warmer than Open Aire which it may be is for that the true Cause of Cold is an Expiration from the Globe of the Earth which in open Places is stronger And againe Aire it selfe if it be not altered by that Expiration is not without some Secret Degree of Heat As it is not likewise without some Secret Degree of Light For otherwise Cats and Owles could not see in the Night But that Aire hath a little Light Proportionable to the Visuall Spirits of those Creatures The Eyes doe moue â—â—â—â—â—â— way For when one Eye moueth to the Nosthrill the other moueth from the Nosthrill The Cause is Motion of Consent which in the Spirits and Parts Spirituall is Strong But yet Vse will induce the Contrary For some can Squint when they will And the Common Tradition is that if Children be set vpon a Table with a Candle behinde them both Eyes will moue Outwards As affecting to see the Light and so induce Squinting We see more exquisitely with One Eye Shut than with Both Open. The Cause is for that the Spirits Visuall vnite themselues more and so become Stronger For you may see by looking in a Glasse that when you shut one Eye the Pupill of the other Eye that is Open Dilateth The Eyes if the Sight meet not in one Angle See Things Double The Cause is for that Seeing two Things and Seeing one Thing twice worketh the same Effect And therefore a little Pellet held betweene two Fingers laid a-crosse seemeth Double Pore-blinde Men see best in the Dimmer Lights And likewise haue their Sight Stronger neare hand than those that are not Pore-blinde And can Reade and Write smaller Letters The Cause is for that the Spirits Visuall in those that are Pore-blinde are Thinner and Rarer than in others And therefore the Greater Light disperseth them For the same Cause they need Contracting But being Contracted are more strong than the Visuall Spirits of Ordinary Eyes are As when we see thorow a Leuell the Sight is the Stronger And so is it when you gather the Eye-lids somewhat close And it is commonly seene in those that are Poreblinde that they doe much gather the Eye-lids together But Old Men when they would see to Reade put the Paper somewhat a farre off The Cause is for that Old Mens Spirits Visuall contrary to those of Pore-blinde Men vnite not but when the Obiect is at some good distance from their Eyes Men see better when their Eyes are ouer-against the Sunne or a Candle if they put their Hand a little before their Eye The Reason is for that the Glaring of the Sunne or the Candle doth weaken the Eye wheras the Light Circumfused is enough for the Perception For we see that an Ouer-light maketh the Eyes Dazell Insomuch as Perpetuall Looking against the Sunne would Cause Blindnesse Againe if Men come out of a Great Light into a Darke Roome And contrariwise if they come out of a Darke Roome into a Light Roome they seeme to haue a Mist before their Eyes and see worse than they shall doe after they haue stayed a little while either in the Light or in the Darke The Cause is for that the Spirits Visuall are vpon a Sudden Change disturbed and put out of Order And till they be recollected doe not performe their Function well For when they are much Dilated by Light they cannot Contract suddenly And when they are much Contracted by Darknesse they cannot Dilate suddenly And Excesse of both these that is of the Dilatation and Contraction of the Spirits Visuall if it belong Destroyeth the Eye For as long Looking against the Sunne or Fire hurteth the Eye by Dilatation
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