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-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
Disgestions In the Stomach In the Liuer In the Arteries and Nerues And in the Seuerall Parts of the Body are likewise called Concoctions And they are all made to be the Workes of Heat All which Notions are but ignorant Catches of a few Things which are most Obuious to Mens Obseruations The Constantest Notion of Concoction is that it should signifie the Degrees of Alteration of one Body into another from Crudity to Perfect Concoction Which is the Vltimity of that Action or Processe And while the Body to be Conuerted and Altered is too strong for the Efficient that should Conuert or Alter it whereby it resisteth and holdeth fast in some degree the first Forme or Consistence it is all that while Crude and Inconcoct And the Processe is to be called Crudity and Inconcoction It is true that Concoction is in great part the Worke of Heat But not the Worke of Heat alone For all Things that further the Conuersion or Alteration as Rest Mixture of a Body already Concocted c. are also Meanes to Concoction And there are of Concoction two Periods The one Assimilation or Absolute Conuersion and Subaction The other Maturation whereof the Former is most conspicuous in the Bodies of Liuing Creatures In which there is an Absolute Conuersion and Assimilation of the Nourishment into the Body And likewise in the Bodies of Plants And againe in Metalls where there is a full Transmutation The other which is Maturation is seene in Liquours and Fruits wherein there is not desired nor pretended an vtter Conuersion but onely an Alteration to that Forme which is most sought for Mans vse As in Clarifying of Drinkes Ripening of Fruits c. But note that there be two Kindes of Absolute Conuersions The one is when a Body is conuerted into another Body which was before As when Nourishment is turned into Flesh That is it which wee call Assimilation The other is when the Conuersion is into a Body meerely New and which was not before As if Siluer should be turned to Gold or Iron to Copper And this Conuersion is better called for distinctions sake Transmutation There are also diuers other Great Alterations of Matter and Bodies besides those that tend to Concoction and Maturation For whatsoeuer doth so alter a Body as it returneth not againe to that it was may be called Alteratio Maior As when Meat is Boyled or Roasted or Fried c. Or when Bread and Meat are Baked Or when Cheese is made of Curds or Butter of Creame or Goales of wood or Brickes of Earth And a Number of others But to apply Notions Philosophicall to Plebcian Termes Or to say where the Notions cannot fitly be reconciled that there wanteth a Terme or Nomenclature for it as the Ancients vsed They be but Shifts of Ignorance For Knowledge will be euer a Wandring and Indigested Thing if it be but a Commixture of a few Notions that are at hand and occurre and not excited from sufficient Number of Instances and those well collated The Consistences of Bodies are very diuers Dense Rare Tangible Pneumaticall Volatile Fixed Determinate Not Determinate Hard Soft Cleauing Not Cleauing Congealeable Not Congealeable Liquefiable Not Liquefiable Fragile Tough Flexible Inflexible Tractile or to be drawen forth in length Intractile Porous Solide Equall and Smooth Vnequall Venous and Fibrous and with Graines Entire And diuers Others All which to referre to Heat and Cold and Moisture and Drought is a Compendious and Inutile Speculation But of these see principally our Abecedarium Nature And otherwise Sparfim in this in our Sylua Syluarum Neuerthelesse in some good part We shall handle diuers of them now presently Liquefiable and Not Liquefiable proceed from these Causes Liquefaction is euer caused by the Detention of the Spirits which play within the Body and Open it Therefore such Bodies as are more Turgide of Spirit Or that haue their Spirits more Sraitly Imprisoned Or againe that hold them Better Pleased and Content are Liquefiable For these three Dispositions of Bodies doe arrest the Emission of the Spirits An Example of the first two Properties is in Metalls And of the Last in Grease Pitch Sulphure Butter Wax c. The Disposition not to Liquefie proceedeth from the Easie Emission of the Spirits whereby the Grosser Parts contract And therefore Bodies Ieiune of Spirits Or which part with their Spirits more Willingly are not Liquefiable As Wood Clay Free-stone c. But yet euen many of those Bodies that will not Melt or will hardly Melt will notwithstanding Soften As Iron in the Forge And a Sticke bathed in Hot Ashes which thereby becommeth more Flexible Moreouer there are some Bodies which doe Liquefie or dissolue by Fire As Metalls Wax c. And other Bodies which dissolue in Water As Salt Sugar c. The Cause of the former proceedeth from the Dilatation of the Spirits by Heat The Cause of the Latter proceedeth from the Opening of the Tangible Parts which desire to receiue the Liquour Againe there are some Bodies that dissolue with both As Gumme c. And those be such Bodies as on the One Side haue good store of Spirit And on the other Side haue the Tangible Parts Indigent of Moisture For the former helpeth to the Dilating of the Spirits by the Fire And the Latter stimulateth the Parts to Receiue the Liquour Of Bodies some are Fragile And some are Tough and Not Fragile And in the Breaking some Fragile Bodies breake but where the Force is Some shatter and fly in many Peeces Of Fragility the Cause is an Impotency to be Extended And therefore Stone is more Fragile than Metall And so Fictile Earth is more Fragile than Crude Earth And Dry Wood than Greene. And the Cause of this Vnaptnesse to Extension is the Small Quantity of Spirits For it is the Spirit that furthereth the Extension or Dilatation of Bodies And it is euer Concomitant with Porosity and with Drinesse in the Tangible Parts Contrariwise Tough Bodies haue more Spirit and sewer Pores and Moister Tangible Parts Therefore wee see that Parchment or Leather will stretch Paper will not Woollen Cloth will tenter Linnen scarcely All Solide Bodies consist of Parts of two seuerall Natures Pneumaticall and Tangible And it is well to be noted that the Pneumaticall Substance is in some Bodies the Nature Spirit of the Body And in some other plaine Aire that is gotten in As in Bodies desiccate by Heat or Age For in them when the Natiue Spirit goeth forth and the Moisture with it the Aire with time getteth into the Pores And those Bodies are euer the more Fragile For the Natiue Spirit is more Yeelding and Extensiue especially to follow the Parts than Aire The Natiue Spirits also admit great Diuersitie As Hot Cold Active Dull c. Whence proceed most of the Vertues and Qualities as wee call them of Bodies But the Aire intermixt is without Vertues and maketh Things Infioide and without any Extimulation The Concretion of Bodies
Parts in Mans Body easily reparable as Spirits Bloud and Flesh die in the Embracement of the Parts hardly reparable as Bones Nerues and Membranes And likewise some Entrails which they reckon amongst the Spermaticall Parts are hard to repaire Though that Diuision of Spermaticall and Menstrnall Parts be but a Conceit And this same Obseruation also may be drawne to the present purpose of Nourishing Emaciated Bodies And therefore Gentle Frication draweth forth the Nourishment by making the Parts a little hungry and heating them whereby they call forth Nourishment the better This Frication I wish to be done in the Morning It is also best done by the Hand or a peece of Scarlet wooll wet a little with Oile of Almonds mingled with a small Quantity of Bay-sals or Saffron We see that the very Currying of Horses doth make them fat and in good liking The Fifth Meanes is to further the very Act of Assimilation of Nourishment which is done by some outward Emollients that make the Parts more apt to Assimilate For which I haue compounded an Ointment of Excellent Odour which I call Roman Ointment vide the Receit The vse of it would be betweene Sleepes For in the latter Sleepe the Parts Assimilate chiefly There be many Medicines which by themselues would doe no Cure but perhaps Hurt but being applyed in a certaine Order one after another doe great Cures I haue tried my selfe a Remedy for the Gout which hath seldome failed but driuen it away in 24. Houres space It is first to apply a Pultasse Of which vide the Receit And then a Bath or Fomentation of which vide the Receit And then a Plaister vide the Receit The Pultasse relaxeth the Pores and maketh the Humour apt to Exhale The Fomentation calleth forth the Humour by Vapours But yet in regard of the way made by the Pultasse Draweth gently And therfore draweth the Humour out and doth not draw more to it For it is a Gentle Fomentation and hath withall a Mixture though very little of some Stupefactine The Plaister is a Moderate Astringent Plaister which repelleth New Humour from falling The Pultasse alone would make the Part more soft and weake And apter to take the Defluxion and Impression of the Humour The Fomentation alone if it were too weake without way made by the Pultasse would draw forth little If too strong it would draw to the Part as well as draw from it The Plaister alone would pen the Humour already contained in the Part and so exasperate it as well as forbid new Humour Therefore they must be all taken in Order as is said The Pultasse is to be laid to for two or three Houres The Fomentation for a Quarter of an Houre or somewhat better being vsed hot and seuen or eight times repeated The Plaister to continue on still till the Part be well confirmed There is a secret Way of Cure vnpractized By Assuetude of that which in it selfe hurteth Poysons haue beene made by some Familiar as hath beene said Ordinary keepers of the Sicke of the Plague are seldome infected Enduring of Torture by Custome hath been made more casie The Brooking of Enormous Quantity of Meats and so of Wine or Strong Drinke hath beene by Custome made to be without Surfet or Drunkennesse And generally Diseases that are Chronicall as Coughes Phthisickes some kindes of Palseyes Lunacies c. are most dangerous at the first Therefore a wise Physitian will consider whether a Disease be Incurable Or whether the Iust Cure of it be not full of perill And if he finde it to bee such let him resort to Palliation And alleuiate the Symptome without busying himselfe too much with the perfect Cure And many times if the Patient be indeed patient that Course will exceed all Expectation Likewise the Patient himselfe may striue by little and little to Ouercome the Symptome in the Exacerbation and so by time turne Suffering into Nature Diuers Diseases especially Chronicall such as Quartan Agues are somtimes cured by Surset and Excesses As Excesse of Meat Excesse of Drinke Extraordinary Fasting Extraordinary Stirring or Lassitude the like The Cause is for that Diseases of Cotinuance get an Aduētitious Strength frō Custome besides their Materiall Cause from the Humours So that the Breaking of the Custome doth leaue them only to their first Cause which if it be any thing weake will fall off Besides such Excesses doe Excite and Spur Nature which thereupon riseth more forcibly against the Disease There is in the Body of Man a great Consent in the Motion of the seuerall Parts We see it is Childrens sport to proue whether they can rub vpon their Brest with one hand and pat vpon their Fore-head with another And straight-waies they shall sometimes rubbe with both Hands or pat with both hands We see that when the Spirits that come to the Nosthrills expell a bad Sent the Stomach is ready to Expell by Vomit We finde that in Consumptions of the Lungs when Nature cannot expell by Cough Men fall into Fluxes of the Belly and then they dye So in Pestilent Diseases if they cannot be expelled by Sweat they fall likewise into Loosenesse and that is commonly Mortall Therfore Physitians should ingeniously contriue how by Motions that are in their Power they may excite Inward Motions that are not in their Power by Consent As by the Stench of Feathers or the like they cure the Rising of the Mother Hippocrates Aphorisme In Morbis minus is a good profound Aphorisme It importeth that Diseases contrary to the Complexion Age Sexe Season of the yeare Diet c. are more dangerous than those that are Concurrent A Man would thinke it should be otherwise For that when the Accident of Sicknesse and the Naturall Disposition doe second the one the other the Disease should be more forcible And so no doubt it is if you suppose like Quantity of Matter But that which maketh good the Aphorisine is Because such Diseases doe shew a greater Collection of Matter by that they are able to ouercome those Naturall Inclinations to the Contrary And therefore in Diseases of that kinde let the Physitian apply himselfe more to Purgation than to Alteration Because the Offence is in the Quantity and the Qualities are rectified of themselues Physitians do wisely prescribe that there be Preparatiues vsed before Iust Purgations For certaine it is that Purgers doe many times great Hurt if the Body be not accommodated both before and after the Purging The Hurt that they doe for want of Preparation before Purging is by the Sticking of the Humours and their not comming faire away Which causeth in the Body great Perturbations and ill Accidents during the Purging And also the diminishing and dulling of the Working of the Medicine it selfe that it purgeth not sufficiently Therefore the worke of Preparation is double To make the Humours fluide and mature And to make the Passages more open For both those helpe to
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
the Strength and Quantitie of their Sap and Iuyce Being well munited by their Barke against the Iniuries of the Aire But Herbs draw a Weake luyce And haue a Soft Stalke And therefore those amongst them which last longest are Herbs of Strong Smell and with a Sticky Stalke Trees that beare Mast and Nuts are commonly more lasting than those that beare Fruits Especially the Moister Fruits As Oakes Beeches Chesnuts Wall-nuts Almonds Pine-Trees c. last longer than Apples Peares Plums c. The Cause is the Fatnesse and Oylinesse of the Sap Which euer wasteth lesse than the more Watry Trees that bring forth their Leaues late in the Yeare and cast them likewise late are more lasting than those that sprout their Leaues Early or shed them betimes The Cause is for that the late Comming forth sheweth a Moisture more fixed And the other more loose and more easily resolued And the same Cause is that Wilde-Trees last longer than Garden-Trees And in the same kinde those whose Fruit is Acide more than those whose Fruit is sweet Nothing procureth the Lasting of Trees Bushes and Herbs so much as often Cutting For euery Cutting causeth a Renouation of the Iuyee of the Plant That it neither goeth so farre nor riseth so faintly as when the Plant is not Cut Insomuch as Annuall Plants if you cut them seasonably and will spare the vse of them and suffer them to come vp still young will last more Yeares than one As hath beene partly touched Such as is Lettuce Purslane Cucumber and the like And for Great Trees we see almost all Ouer-growne-Trees in Church-yards or neare Ancient Buildings and the like are Pollards or Dottards and not Trees at their full Height Some Experiment would be made how by Art to make Plants more Lasting than their ordinary Period As to make a Stalke of Wheat c. last a whole yeare You must euer presuppose that you handle it so as the Winter killeth it not For we speake onely of Prolonging the Naturall Period I conceiue that the Rule will hold That whatsoeuer maketh the Herbe come later than at his time will make it last longer time It were good to try it in a Stalke of Wheat c. set in the Shade and encompassed with a Case of Wood not touching the Straw to keepe out Open Aire As for the Preseruation of Fruits and Plants as well vpon the Tree or Stalke as gathered we shall handle it vnder the Title of Conseruation of Bodies The Particular Figures of Plants we leaue to their Descriptions But some few Things in generall we will obserue Trees and Herbs in the Growing forth of their Boughes and Branches are not Figured and keep no Order The Cause is for that the Sap being restrained in the Rinde and Barke breaketh not forth at all As in the Bodies of Trees and Stalkes of Herbs till they begin to branch And then when they make an Eruption they breake forth casually where they finde best way in the Barke or Rinde It is true that some Trees are more scattered in their Boughes As Sallow-Trees Warden-Trees Quince-Trees Medlar-Trees Limon-Trees c. Some are more in the forme of a Pyramis and come almost to todd As the Peare-Tree which the Critickes will haue to borrow his name of â—â— Fire Orenge-Trees Firre-Trees Service-Trees Lime-Trees c. And some are more spred and broad As Beeches Hornebeame c. The rest are more indifferent The Cause of Scattering the Boughes is the Hasty breaking forth of the Sap And therefore those Trees rise not in a Body of any Height but branch neare the Ground The Cause of the Pyramis is the Keeping in of the Sap long before it branch And the spending of it when it beginneth to branch by equall degrees The Spreading is caused by the Carrying vp of the Sap plentifully without Expence And then putting it forth speedily and at once There be diuers Herbs but no Trees that may be said to haue some kinde of Order in the Putting forth of their Leaues For they haue Ioynts or Knuckles as it were Stops in their Germination As haue Gilly-Flowers Pinckes Fennell Corne Reeds and Canes The Cause whereof is for that the Sap asoendeth vnequally and doth as it were tire and stop by the way And it seemeth they haue some Closenesse and Hardnesse in their Stalke which bindreth the Sap from going vp vntill it hath gathered into a Knot and so is more vrged to put forth And therefore they are most of them hollow when the Stalke is dry As Fennell-Stalke Stubble and Canes Flowers haue all exquisite Figures And the Flower-Numbers are chiefly Fiue and Foure As in Prime-Roses Brier-Roses Single Muske-Roses Single Pinkes and Gilly-Flowers c. which haue fiue Leaues Lillies Flower-de-luces Borage Buglosse c. which haue foure Leaues But some put forth Leaues not Numbered But they are euer small Ones As Mary-Golds Trisoile c. We see also that the Sockets and Supporters of Flowers are Figured As in the Fiue Brethren of the Rose Sockets of Gilly-Flowers c. Leaues also are all Figured Some Round Some Long None Square And many iagged on the Sides Which Leaues of Flowers seldome are For I account the Iagging of Pinkes and Gilly-Flowers to be like the Inequality of Oake-leaues or Vine-leaues or the like But they seldome or neuer haue any small Purles Of Plants some few put forth their Blossomes before their Leaues As Almonds Peaches Cornelians Black-Thorne c. But most put forth some Leaues before their Blossomes As Apples Peares Plums Cherries White-Thorne c. The Cause is for that those that put forth their Blossomes first haue either an Acute and Sharpe Spirit And therfore commonly they all put forth earely in the Spring and ripen very late As most of the Particulars before mentioned Or else an Oyly Iuyce which is apter to put out Flowers than Leaues Of Plants some are Greene all Winter Others cast their Leaues There are Greene aâ—l Winter Holly Iny Box Firre Eugh Cypresse Iuniper Bayes Rose-Mary c. The Cause of the Holding Greene is the Close and Compact Substance of their Leaues and the Pedicles of them And the Cause of that againe is either the Tough and Viscous Iuyce of the Plant Or the Strength and Heat thereof Of the first Sort is Holly Which is of so Viscous a Iuyce as they make Bird-lime of the Barke of it The Stalke of Iuy is Tough and not Fragile as we see in other small Twigs dry Firre yeeldeth Pitch Box is a fast and heauy Wood as we see it in Bowles Eugh is a Strong and Tough Wood as we see it in Bowes Of the second Sort is Iuniper which is a Wood Odorate and maketh a hot Fire Bayes is likewise a Hot and Aromatical Wood And so is Rose-Mary for a Shrub As for the Leaues their Density appeareth in that either they are Smooth and Shining as in Bayes Holly Iuy Box c. Or in that they are Hard and Spiry as
Herbs Cut c. will grow soonest if they be Set or Cut in the Increase of the Moone Also that Braines in Rabits Wood-cocks Calues c. are fullest in the Full of the Moone And so of â—â—â— in the Bones And so of Oysters and â—â—â— which of all the rest are the easiest tried if you haue them in Pits Take some â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— and set some of them immediately after the Change And others of the same kinde immediately after the Full Let them be as Like as can be The Earth also the Same as neare as may be And therefore beft in Pots Let the Pots also stand where no Raine or Sunne may come to them lest the Difference of the Weather confound the Experiment And then see in what Time the Seeds Set in the Increase of the Moone come to a certaine Height And how they differ from chose that are Set in the Decrease of the Moone It is like that the Braine of Man waxeth Moister and Fuller vpon the Full of the Moone And therefore it were good for those that haue Moist Braines and are great Drinkers to take Fume of Lignum Aloës RoseMary â—â—â—â— about the full of the Moone It is like also that the â—â—â— in mens Bodies Increase and Decrease as the Moone doth And therefore it were good to Purge some day or two after the Full For that then the â—â—â— will not replenish so soone againe As for the â—â—â— of the Motion of the Spirits you must note that the Growth of Hedges Herbs Haire â—â—â— is caused from the Moone by â—â—â— of the Spirits as well as by Increase of the Moisture But for Spirite in particular the great Instante is in â—â—â— There may be other Secret Effects of the Influence of the Moone which are not yet brought into Obseruation It may be that if it so fill out that the Wind be North or North-East in the Full of the Moone it increaseth Cold And if South or South-West it disposeth the Aire for a good while to Warmth and Raine Which would be obserued It may be that Children and Young Cattell that are Brought forth in the Full of the Moone are stronger larger than those that are brought forth in the Wane And those also which are Begotten in the Full of the Moone So that it might be good Husbandry to put Rams and Bulls to their Females somewhat before the Full of the Moone It may be also that the Egs lay'd in the Full of the Moone breed the better Bird And a Number of the like Effects which may be brought into Obseruation Quare also whether great Thunders and Earth-Quakes be not most in the Full of the Moone The Turning of Wine to Vinegar is a Kinde of Putrefaction And in Making of Vinegar they vse to set Vessels of Wine ouer against the Noone-Sunne which calleth out the more Oyly Spirits and leaueth the Liquour more Soure and Hard. We see also that Burnt-Wine is more Hard and Astringent than Wine Vnburnt It is said that Cider in Nauigations vnder the Line ripeneth when Wine or Beere soureth It were good to set a Rundlet of Veriuyce ouer against the Sunne in Summer as they doe Vinegar to see whether it will Ripen and Sweeten There be diuers Creatures that Sleepe all Winter As the Beare the Hedge-hog the Bat the Bee c. These all wax Fat when they Sleepe and egest not The Cause of their Fattening during their Sleeping time may be the Want of Assimilating For whatsoeuer Attimilation not to Flesh turneth either to Sweat or Fat These Creatures for part of their Sleeping Time haue been obserued not to Stirre at all And for the other part to Stirre but not to Remoue And they get Warme and Close Places to Sleepe in When the Flemmings Wintred in Noua Zembla the Beares about the Middle of Nouember went to Sleepe And then the Foxes began to come forth which durst not before It is noted by some of the Ancients that the Shee-Beare breedeth and lyeth in with her Young during that time of Rest And that a Beare Big with Young hath seldome beene seene Some Liuing Creatures are Procreated by Copulation betweene Male and Female Some by Putrefaction And of those which come by Putrefaction many doe neuerthelesse afterwards procreate by Copulation For the Cause of both Generations First it is most certaine that the Cause of all Viuification is a Gentle and Proportionable Heat working vpon a Glutinous and Yeelding Substance For the Heat doth bring forth Spirit in that Substance And the Substance being Glutinous produceth Two Effects The One that the Spirit is Detained and cannot Breake forth The Other that the Matter being Gentle and Yeelding is driuen forwards by the Motion of the Spirits after some Swelling into Shape and Members Therefore all Sperme all Menstruous Substance all Matter whereof Creatures are produced by Putrefaction haue euermore a Closenesse Lentour and Sequacity It seemeth therefore that the Generation by Sperme onely and by Putrefaction haue two Different Causes The First is for that Creatures which haue a Definite and Exact Shape as those haue which are Procreated by Copulation cannot be produced by a Weake and Casuall Heat Nor out of Matter which is not exactly Prepared according to the Species The Second is for that there is a greater Time required for Maturation of Perfect Creatures For if the Time required in Viuification be of any length then the Spirit will Exhale before the Creature be Mature Except it be Enclosed in a Place where it may haue Continuance of the Heat Accesse of some Nourishment to maintaine it and Closenesse that may keepe it from Exhaling And such Places are the Wombes and Matrices of the Females And therefore all Creatures made of Putrefaction are of more Vncertaine Shape And are made in Shorter Time And need not so Perfect an Enclosure though some Closenesse be commonly required As for the Heathen Opinion which was that vpon great Mutations of the World Perfect Creatures were first Engendred of Concretion As well as Frogs and Wormes and Flies and such like are now Wee know it to be vaine But if any such Thing should be admitted Discoursing according to Sense it cannot be except you admit a Chaos first Commixture of Heauen and Earth For the Frame of the World once in Order cannot effect it by any Extesse or Casualtie NATVRALL HISTORIE X. Century THe Philosophie of Pythagoras which was full of Superstition did first plant a Monstrous Imagination Which afterwards was by the Schoole of Plato and Others Warred and Nourished It was that the World was One Entire Perfect Liuing Creature Insomuch as Apolloniâ— of Tyaâ—a a Pythagorean Prophet affirmed that the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea was the Respiration of the World drawing in Water as Breath and putting it forth againe They went on and inferred That if the World were a Liuing Creature it had a Soule and Spirit Which also they haâ—â—â— calling it Spiritus Mundi
Things The one Rings of Sea Horse Teeth worne vpon the Fingers The other Bands of Greene Periwinckle the Herbe tied about the Calfe of the Leg or the Thigh c. where the Crampe vseth to come I doe finde this the more strange because Neither of these haue any Relaxing Vertue but rather the Contrary I iudge therefore that their Working is rather vpon the Spirits within the Nerues to make them striue lesse Than vpon the Bodily Substance of the Nerues I would haue Triall made of two other Kindes of Bracelets for Comforting the Heart and Spirits The one of the Trechisch of Vipers made into little Peeces of Beads For since they doe great Good Inwards especially for Pestilent Agues it is like they will be Effectuall Outwards Where they may be applied in greater Quantity There would be Trochish likewise made of Snakes Whose Flesh dried is thought to haue a very Opening and Cordiall Vertue The other is of Beads made of the Scarlet Powder which they call Kermes Which is the Principall Ingredient in their Cordiall Confection Alkermes The Beads would be made vp with AmberGrice and some Pomander It hath beene long receiued and confirmed by diuers Trialls That the Root of the Male-Piony dried tied to the Necke doth helpe the Falling-Sicknesse And likewise the Incubus which wee call the Mare The Cause of both these Diseases and especially of the Epilepsie from the Stomach is the Grossenesse of the Vapours which rise and enter into the Cells of the Braine And therfore the Working is by Extreme and Subtill Attenuations Which that Simple hath I iudge the like to be in Castoreum Muske Rew-Seed Agnus Castus Seed c. There is a Stone which they call the Bloud-Stone which worne is thought to be good for them that Bleed at the Nose Which no doubt is by Astriction and Cooling of the Spirits Quare if the Stone taken out of the Toads Head be not of the like Vertue For the Toade loueth Shade and Coolenesse Light may be taken from the Experiment of the Horse-Tooth-Ring and the Garland of Periwinckle how that those things which asswage the Strife of the Spirits doe helpe diseases contrary to the Intention desired For in the Curing of the Crampe the Intention is to relax the Sinnewes But the Contraction of the Spirits that they striue lesse is the best Helpe So to procure easie Tranailes of Women the Intention is to bring downe the Childe But the best Helpe is to stay the Comming downe too Fast Whereunto they say the Toad-Stone likewise helpeth So in Pestilent Feaners the Intention is to expell the Intection by Sweat and Enapouration But the best Meanes to doe it is by Nitre Diascordium and other Coole Things which doe for a time arrest the Expulsion till Nature can doe it more quietly For as one faith prettily In the Quenching of the Flame of a Pestilent Ague Nature is like People that come to quench the Fire of a House which are so busie as one of them letteth another Surely it is an Excellent Axiome and of Manifold Vse that whasoeuer appeaseth the Contention of the Spirits furthereth their Action The Writers of Naturall Magick commend the Wearing of the Spoile of a Snake for Preseruing of Health I doubt it is but a Conceit For that the Snake is thought to renue her Touth by Casting her Spoile They might as well take the Beake of an Eagle or a Peece of a Harts-Horne because those Renue It hath beene Anciently Receiued For Pericles the Athenian vsed it and it is yet in vse to weare little Bladders of Quick-Siluer or Tablets of Arsenicke as Preseruatines against the Plague Not as they conceiue for any Comfort they yeeld to the Spirits but for that being Poysons themselues they draw the Venome to them from the Spirits Vide the Experiments 95.96 and 97. touching the Seuerall Sympathies and Antipathies for Medicinall Vse It is said that the Guts or Skin of a Wolfe being applyed to the Belly doe cure the Cholicke It is true that the Wolfe is a Beast of great Edacity and Disgestion And so it may be the Parts of him comfort the Bowels We see Scare-Crowes are set vp to keep Birds from Corne and Fruit It is reported by some that the Head of a Wolfe whole dried and hanged vp in a Done-House will scare away Vermine Such as are Weasils Polcats and the like It may be the Head of a Dog will doe as much For those Vermine with vs know Dogs better than Wolues The Braines of some Creatures when their Heads are roasted taken in Wine are said to strengthen the Memory As the Braines of Hares Braines of Hens Braines of Deeres c. And it seemeth to be incident to the Braines of those Creatures that are Fearefull The Ointment that Witches vse is reported to be made of the Fat of Children digged out of their Granes Of the Iuyees of Smallage Wolfe-bane and Cinquefoile Mingled with the Meale of fine Wheat But I suppose that the Soperiferous Medicines are likest to doe it Which are Henbane Hemlocke Mandrake Moone-Shade Tabacco Opium Saffron PoplarLeaues c. It is reported by some that the Affections of Beasts when they are in Strength doe adde some Vertue vnto Inanimate Things As that the Skin of a Sheepe deuoured by a Wolfe moueth Itching That a Stone bitten by a Dog in Anger being throwne at him drunke in Powder prouoketh Choler It hath beene obserued that the Diet of Women with Childe doth worke much vpon the Infant As if the Mother eat Quinces much and Coriander-Seed the Nature of both which is to represse and stay Vapours that ascend to the Braine it will make the Childe Ingenious And on the contrary side if the Mother eat much Onions or Beanes or such Vapourous Food Or drinke Wine or Strong Drinke immoderately Or Fast much Or be giuen to much Musing All which send or draw Vapours to the Head It endangereth the Childe to become Lunaticke or of Ionperfect Memory And I make the same Iudgement of Tobacco often taken by the Mother The Writers of Naturall Magicke report that the Heart of an Ape worne neare the Heart comforteth the Heart and increaseth Audacity It is true that the Ape is a Merry and Bold Beast And that the same Heart likewise of an Ape applied to the Necke or Head helpeth the Wit And is good for the Falling-Sicknesse The Ape also is a Witty Beast and hath a Dry Braine Which may be some Cause of Attenuation of Vapours in the Head Yet it is said to moue Dreames also It may be the Heart of a Man would doe more but that is more against Mens Mindes to vse it Except it be in such as weare the Reliques of Saints The Flesh of a Hedge-Hog Dressed Eaten is said to be a great Drier It is true that the Iuyce of a Hedge-Hog must needs be Harsh and Dry because it putteth forth so many Prickles For Plants also that are full of Prickles are generally Dry As
Fishes deuoure little The Operation of Purging Medicines and the Causes thereof haue béene thought to be a great Secret And so according to the slothfull manner of Men it is referred to a Hidden Propriety a Specificall vertue and a Fourth Qualitie and the like Shifts of Ignorance The Causes of Purging are diuers All plaine and perspicuous And throughly maintained by Experience The first is That whatsoeuer cannot be ouercome and disgested by the Stomacke is by the Stomacke either put vp by Vomit or put downe to the Guts And by that Motion of Expulsion in the Stomacke and Guts other Parts of the Body as the Orifices of the Veines and the like are moued to expell by Consent For nothing is more frequent than Motion of Consent in the Body of Man This Surcharge of the Stomacke is caused either by the Qualitie of the Medicine or by the Quantitie The Qualities are three Extreme Bitter as in Aloes Coloquintida c. Loathsome and of horrible taste As in Agarick Black Hellebore c. And of secret Malignity and disagreement towards Mans Bodie many times not appearing much in the Taste As in Scammony Mechoacham Antimony c. And note well that if there be any Medicine that Purgeth and hath neither of the first two Manifest Qualities it is to be held suspected as a kinde of Poysons For that it worketh either by Corrosion or by a secret Malignitie and Enmitie to Nature And therfore such Medicines are warily to be prepared and vsed The Quantitie of that which is taken doth also cause Parging As we see in a great Quantitie of New Milke from the Cow yea and a great Quantitie of Meat For Surfets many times turne to Purges both vpwards and downwards Therefore we see generally that the working of Purging Medicines commeth two or three houres after the Medicines taken For that the Stomacke first maketh a proofe whether it can concoct them And the like happeneth after Surfets or Milke in too great Quantitie A second Cause is Mordication of the Orifices of the Parts Especially of the Mesentery veines As it is seene that Salt or any such thing that is sharpe and biting put into the Fundament doth prouoke the Part to expell And Mustard prouoketh Sneezing And any Sharpe Thing to the Eyes prouoketh Teares And therfore we see that almost all Purgers haue a kinde of Twiching and vellication besides the Griping which commeth of wind And if this Mordication be in an ouer-high Degree it is little better than the Corrosion of Poyson And it commeth to passe sometimes in Antimony Especially if it be giuen to Bodies not repleat with Humors For where Humors abound the Humors saue the Parts The third Cause is Attraction For I doe not deny but that Purging Medicines haue in them a direct Force of Attraction As Drawing Plasters haue in Surgery And we see Sage or Bettony brused Sneezing-powder and other Powders or Liquors which the Physitians call Errhines put into the Nose draw Flegme and water from the Head And so it is in Apophlegmatismes and Gargarismes that draw the Rheume downe by the Pallate And by this Vertue no doubt some Purgers draw more one Humour and some another according to the Opinion receiued As Rubarb draweth Choller Sean Melancholy Agarick Flegme c. But yet more or lesse they draw promiscuously And note also that besides Sympathy between the Purger and the Humour there is also another Cause why some Medicines draw some Humour more than another And it is for that some Medicines work quicker than others And they that draw quick draw only the Lighter more fluide Humours they that draw flow worke vpon the more Tough and Viscous Humours And therfore Men must beware how they take Rubarb and the like alone familiarly For it taketh only the Lightest part of the Humour away and leaueth the Masse of Humours more obstinate And the like may be said of Worme-wood which is so much magnified The fourth Cause is Flatnosity For Wind stirred moueth to expell And we finde that in effect all Purgers haue in them a raw Spirit or Wind which is the Principall Cause of Tortion in the Stomach and Belly And therfore Purgers leese most of them the vertue by Decoction vpon the Fire And for that Cause are gluen chiefly in Infusion Iuyce or Powder The fifth Cause is Compression or Crushing As when Water is Crushed out of a Spunge So we see that Taking Cold moueth Loosenesse by Contraction of the Skinn and outward Parts And so doth Cold likewise cause Rheumes and Defluxions from the Head And some Astringent Plasters crush out purulent Matter This kind of Operation is not found in many Medicines Mirabalanes haue it And it may be the Barkes of Peaches For this Vertue requireth an Astriction but such an Astriction as is not gratefull to the Body For a pleasing Astriction doth rather Binde in the Humours than Expell them And therfore such Astriction is found in Things of an Harrish Taste The Sixth Cause is Lubrefaction and Relaxation As we see in Medicines Emollient Such as are Milke Honey Mallowes Lettuce Mercuriall Pelletory of the Wall and others There is also a secret Vertue of Relaxation in Cold For the Heat of the Body bindeth the Parts and Humours together which Cold relaxeth As it is seene in Vrine Bloud Pottage or the like which if they be Cold breake and dissolue And by this kinde of Relaxation Feare looseneth the Belly because the Heat retiring inwards towards the Heart the Gutts and other Parts are relaxed In the same manner as Feare also causeth Trembling in the Sinewes And of this Kinde of Purgers are some Medicines made of Mercury The Seuenth Cause is Abstersion which is plainly a Scouring off or Incision of the more viscous Humors and making the Humors more fluide And Cutting betweene them and the Part. As is found in Nitrous Water which scoureth Linnen Cloth speedily from the Foulenesse But this Incision must be by a Sharpnesse without Astriction Which wee finde in Salt Worm-wood Oxymel and the like There be Medicines that moue Stooles and not Vrine Some other Vrine and not Stooles Those that Purge by Stoole are such as enter not at all or little into the Mesentery Veines But either at the first are not digestible by the Stomach and therefore moue immediatly downwards to the Gutts Or else are afterwards reiected by the Mesentery Veines and so turne likewise downwards to the Gutts and of these two kindes are most Purgers But those that moue Vrine are such as are well digested of the Stomach and well receiued also of the Mesenfery Veines So they come as farre as the Liuer which sendeth Vrine to the Bladder as the Whey of Bloud And those Medicines being Opening and Piercing doe fortifie the Operation of the Liuer in sending downe the wheyey Part of the Bloud to the Reines For Medicines Vrinatiue doe not worke by Reiection and Indigestion as Solutiue doe There be diuers Medicines which in
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