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A01454	Historie naturall and experimentall, of life and death. Or of the prolongation of life. Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo. Verulam, Vis-count St. Alban; Historia vitae et mortis. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Instauratio magna.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1638 (1638)	STC 1158; ESTC S100506	99,149	463

Maturation doe then in the end engender Oleosity in the Iuyces 17 Neither again let any Man thinke that Oyle or Fat by it selfe and Simple is Hard of Dissipation But in Mixture it doth not retaine the same Nature For as Oyle by it s lfe is much longer in Consuming than Water So in 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 it sticketh longer and is later dried As we noted before 18 To the Irroration of the Body Roasted Meats or Baked Meats are more effectuall than Boiled Meats And all Preparation of Meat with Water is Inconvenient Besides Oyle is more plentifully extracted out of Dry Bodies than out of Moist bodies 19 Generally to the Irroration of the Body much use of Sweet Things is prositable As of Sugar Honey sweet Almonds Pine-Apples Pistaccio's Dates Raisins of the Sunne Corrans Figs and the like Contrarily all Soure and very Salt and very Biting Things are opposite to the Generation of Roscide Iuyce 20 Neither would wee bee thought to favour the Manichees or their Diet Though wee commend the frequent use of all kindes of Seeds and 〈◊〉 and Roots in Meats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Considering all Bread and Bread is that which maketh the Meat Firme is made either of Seeds or of Roots 21 But there is Nothing makes so much to the Irroration of the Body as the Quality of the Drinke Which is the Convoy of the Meat Therefore let there be in use such Drinks as without all Acrimony or Sourenesse are notwithstanding subtill Such are those Wines which are as the old Woman said in Plautus Vetustate Edentula Toothlesse with Age And Ale of the same kinde 22 Mead as wee suppose would not bee ill if it were strong and old But because all Hony hath in it some sharp Parts as appeares by that sharp water which the Chymists extract out of it which will dissolve Metals It were better to make the same Potion of Sugar Not lightly infused in it but so incorporated as Honey useth to be in Mead And to keepe it to the Age of a yeare or at least six Moneths whereby the Water may lose the Crudity and the Sugar acquire subtiltie 23 Now Ancientnesse in Wine or Beere hath this in it That it engenders subtilty in the Parts of the Liquour and Acrimony in the Spirits Whereof the First is Profitable and the second Hurtfull Now to rectifie this Evill Commixture Let there be put into the Vessell before the Wine be separated from the 〈◊〉 Swines-flesh or 〈◊〉 well boyled That the 〈◊〉 of the Wine may have whereupon to ruminate and seed And so lay aside their Mordacity 24 In like manner if Ale should be made not onely with the Graines of wheat Barly Oats Pease and the like But also should admit a part suppose a third part to these Graines of some Fat Roots such as are Potado Roots Pith of 〈◊〉 Burre-Roots or some other sweet and Esculent Roots we suppose it would be a more usefull Drinke for long Life than Ale made of Graines only 25 Also such Things as have very thin Parts Yet not withstanding are without all Acrimony or Mordacity Are very good in Sallets Which vertue we finde to be in some Few of the Flowers Namely Flowers of Ivy which infused in Vineger are pleasant even to the Taste Marigold leaves which are used in Broaths And Flowers of Betony And touching the Operation upon the Iuyces of the Body thus much The Operation upon the Bowels for their Extrusion of Aliment 5. The Historie 1 WHAT those Things are which comfort the Principall Bowels Which are the Fountaines of 〈◊〉 Namely the 〈◊〉 Liver Heart and Brain To performe their Functions well whereby Aliment is distributed in to the Parts 〈◊〉 are dispersed and the 〈◊〉 of the whole Body is accomplished May be derived from Physisians And from their Prescripts and Advices 2 Touching the Spleene 〈◊〉 Kidneyes Mesentery Guts and Lungs we speake not For these are Members Ministring to the Principall And where as speech is made touching Health they require sometimes a most especiall Consideration Because Each of these have their Diseases which unlesse they be cured will have Influence upon the Principall Members But as touching the Prolongation of Life And Reparation by Aliments And Retardation of the Inconcoction of Old 3 And as for those Things which according to the different State of every Mans Body may bee transferred into his Diet and the Regiment of his Life He may collect them out of the Bookes of 〈◊〉 which have written of the Comforting and Preserving the Foure Principall 〈◊〉 For Conservation of Health hath commonly need of no more than some Short Courses of Physicke But Length of life cannot be hoped without an orderly Diet and a Constant Race of 〈◊〉 Medicines But we will propound some few And the House And whose Strength and Goodnesse 〈◊〉 fundamentall to the other Concoctions ought so to be guarded and confirmed That it may be without 〈◊〉 Hot Next Astricted or Bound not Loose Furthermore Cleane not surcharged with Foule Humours And yet in regard it is nourished from it selfe not from the Veines not altogether Emptie or Hungry Lastly it is to be kept ever in 〈◊〉 Because Appetite sharpens Disgestion 5 I wonder much how that same 〈◊〉 bibere To drink 〈◊〉 Drinke which was in use amongst the Ancients is laid downe againe I knew a Physician that was very Famous who in the Beginning 〈◊〉 Dinner and Supper would 〈◊〉 eat a few spoonfuls of very Warm Broath with much 〈◊〉 And then would presently wish that it were out againe saying He had no 〈◊〉 of the Broath but onely of the Warmth 6 We doe verily conceive it good that the First Draught 〈◊〉 of Wine or Ale or any other Drink to which a Man 〈◊〉 most accustomed be taken at Supper Warme 7 Wine in which Gold hath been quenched we conceive would be very good once in a Meale 〈◊〉 that we 〈◊〉 the Gold conferreth an Vertue thereunto But that we know that the 〈◊〉 of all Mettals in any kinde of Liquour doth leave a most potent Astriction Now we chuse gold because besides that Astriction which we desire it leaveth nothing else behinde it of a Metalline Impression 8 Wee are of opinion that Sops of Bread dipped in Wine taken at the Midst of the Meale are Better than Wine it selfe Especially if there were infused into the Wine in which the Sops were dipped Rose-Mary and Citron-Pill And that with Sugar that it may not Slip too fast 9 It is certaine that the use of Quinces is good to strengthen the Stomach But we take them to be better if they be used in that which they call Quiddeny of Quinces than in the Bodies of the Quinces themselves Because they lie heavie in the Stomach But those Quiddenies are best taken after Meales alone 〈◊〉 Meales dipped in 〈◊〉 10 Such things as are good for the Stomach above other Simples are these Rose-Mary 〈◊〉 Maslicke 〈◊〉 Sage Mint 11 Wee allow Pills of Aloes Mastick and Saffron in

Imprimatur THO. WYKE R. P. Episc. Lond. Cap. domest Decemb. 29. 1637. HISTORY NATURALL And Experimentall Of Life and Death OR Of the Prolongation of Life Written in Latine by the Right Honorable FRANCIS Lo. Verulam Vis-Count St. ALBAN LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland for William Lee and Humphrey Mosley 1638. TO THE READER I AM to give Advertisement that there came forth of late a Translation of this Booke by an unknowne PERSON Who though he wished well to the propagating of his Lordships Works yet he was altogether unacquainted with his Lordships Stile and Manner of Expressions And so published a Translation Lame and Defective in the whole Whereupon I thought fit to recommend the same to bee translated anew by a more Diligent and Zealous Pen which hath since travailed in it And though it stil comes short of that Lively and Incomparable Spirit and Expression which lived and died with the Authour yet I dare avouch it to bee much more warrantable and agreeable than the Former It is true this Booke was not intended to have been published in English But seeing it hath beene alreadie made free of that Language Whatsoever Benefit or Delight may redound from it I commend the same to the Courteous and Judicious Reader W. R. To the present Age and Posteritie GREETING ALthough we had ranked the Historie of Life and Death as the last amongst our six Monethly Designations yet wee have thought fit in respect of the prime use thereof In which the least Losse of Time ought to bee esteemed precious to invert that Order and to send it forth in the second place For we have hope and wish that it may conduce to a Common Good And that the Nobler sort of Physicians will advance their Thoughts And not employ their Times wholly in the Sordidnesse of Cures Neither bee Honoured for Necessitie only But that they will become Coadjutours and Jnstruments of the Divine omnipotence and Clemencie in Prolonging and Renewing the Life of Man Especially seeing we pre scribe it to be done by Safe and Convenient and Civill wayes though hitherto un-assayed For though wee Christians doe continually aspire and pant afterthe Land of Promise Yet it will bee a Token of Gods Favour towards us in our Journeyings thorow this worlds wildernes to have our Shooes and Garments I meane those of our Fraile Bodies little worn or impaired FR. St. ALBAN THE History of Life and Death The Preface IT is an ancient Saying and Complaint That Life is Short and Art Long. Wherefore it behoveth us who make it our chiefest Aime to perfect Arts to take upon us the Consideration of Prolonging Mans Life God the Author of all Truth and Life prospering our Endevours For though the Life of Man bee nothing else but a Masse and Accumulation of Sins and Sorrowes And they that looke for an Eternall Life set but light by a Temporarie Yet the Continuation of workes of Charity ought not to be contemned even by us Christians Besides the Beloved Disciple of our Lord survived the other Disciples And many of the Fathers of the Church especially of the Holy Monkes and Hermits were long liv'd which shewes that this Blessing of Long life so often promised in the old Law had lesse Abatement after our Saviours Dayes than other Earthly Blessings had But to esteeme of this as the chiefest Good we are but too prone Onely the Inquirie is difficult how to attaine the same And so much the rather because it is corrupted with false opinions and vaine Reports For both those Things which the Vulgar Physitians talke of Radic all Moisture and Naturall Heat are but meere Fictions And the Immoderate praises 〈◊〉 Chymicall Medicines first puffe up with vain hopes and then faile 〈◊〉 Admirers And as for that Death which is caused by Suffocation Putrefaction and severall Diseases wee speake not now For that pertains to an History of Physick But onely of that Death which comes by a totall Decay of the Body and the Inconcoction of old Age. Neverthelesse the last Act of Death and the very Extinguishing of Life it selfe which may so many wayes bee wrought outwardly and inwardly which notwithstanding have as it were one common Porch before it comes to the point of Death will bee pertinent to be inquired of in this Treatise But wee reserve that for the last place That which may bee repaired by Degrees without a Totall waste of the first Stocke is potentially eternall As the Vestall Fire Therefore when Physicians and Philosophers saw that Living Creatures were nourished and their Bodies repaired But that this did last only for a time And afterward came old Age and in the end Dissolution they sought Death in somewhat which could not properly bee repaired Supposing a Radical Moisture incapable of solid Reparation And which from the first infancie received a Spurious Addition but no true Reparation wherby it grew daily worse and worse And in the end brought the Bad to None at all This conceit of theirs was both ignorant and vain For all Things in Living Creatures are in their youth repaired entirely Nay they are for a time increased in Quantitie bettered in Qualitie so as the Matter of Reparation might be Eternall if the Manner of Reparation did not faile But this is the Truth of it There is in the Declining of Age an unequall Reparation Some Parts are repaired easily others with Difficultie and to their losse So as from that time the Bodies of Men begin to endure the Torment of Mezentius That the Living die in the Embraces of the Dead And the Parts easily reparable through their Conjunction with the Parts hardly reparable doe decay For the Spirits Bloud Flesh and Fat are even after the Decline of yeares easily repaired But the Drier and more Porous parts As the Membranes All the Tunicles The Sinewes Arteries Veines Bones Cartilages Most of the Bowels In a word almost all the Organicall parts are hardly Reparable and to their losse Now these hardly Reparable Parts when they come to doe their office of Repairing the other which are easily reparable finding themselves deprived of their wonted Abilitie and strength cease to performe any longer their proper Functions By which meanes it comes to passe that in processe of time the whole tends to Dissolution And even those very Parts which in their owne nature are with much case Reparable Yet through the Decay of the Organs of Reparation can no more receive Reparation But decline and in the end utterly fail And the cause of the Termination of Life is this For that the Spirits like a gentle Flame continually preying upon Bodies Conspiring with the outward Aire which is ever Sucking and Drying of them Doe in time destroy the whole Fabricke of the Bodie As also the particular Engines and Organs therof And make them unable for the worke of Reparation These are the true wayes of Naturall Death well and faithfully to bee revolved in our Mindes For He that knowes not the wayes