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of Tafts, 
Bitter Stalk, have not Bitter, but Hot Roots, asin Yarrow, Primrofe, 
Wormwood, Rue, Carduus benedictus Xc. is manifelt. So the Coats of 
the Seeds of Viola Lumaria are of a hot and biting Tats but the Seeds 
themfelves, in which the Suits, though copious, yet are alfo immerfed 
ina greater quantity of Oy/, are Bitter. And that the Earthy Parts do 
alfo contribute fomething more to this,than to moft of the foremention- 
ed Tafts,is argued from its being more Fixed; that is,the Body in which 
it refides, is either more Fixed, or elfe flyeth not away in that fame 
fate of conjunéion, by which it maketh a Bitter Tafle. For whereas 
Hot, Biting, and divers other Plants lof the ftrength of their Tafte, 
by drying ; molt of thofe which are Bitter, do hereby increafe it. And 
although the Extra of Dandelion and fome other Roots, which are 
very Bitter, hath fcarce any Taft; yet generally, they are Bitter Plants, 
which are belt for the making of Extraéfs. And the diftilled waters 
of Plants which are Hot and Bitter, notwithftanding that they always 
talt high of the Heat, yet rarely and very faintly of the Bitter. 
13. $. Aftringency, is made, partly, by the further increafe and 4 
more intimate union of the Earth. And therefore this is feated (till in 
amore Fixed Compofition, than a Bitter, “And partly, by the diminú- 
tion of the Sulphur. And therefore the Acid Parts ingredient to it, 
either by Fermentation or otherwife, are cafily expofed. Afringency 
being the Womb or Bud of a Sower. For all or molt Aftringent Roots 
wile bey bear a fower Leaf, or afower Fruit; asthofe of all Docks and Sorrels, 
ya Black-Thorn, Dog-Rofe, and others. Wherefore alfo, Afiringenc) is 
id Prix often found in conjuction with Bitter, Sweet, or Sower; but fcarce 
ye of the ever with Pungent, or Hot. 
andin the 14..$- An Aromatick Taft, feems to be produced, chiefly, by a 
s Sole fpirituous, acid, and volatile Sulphur; as in Anbar aril Cardamoı 
Seeds, many Srillasitions Oyls &c. A Nanfeous, by a Sulphur lef Spiri- 
tuos and Volatile, and more Alkaline ; asin the Root of Dog-flones Sheep- 
Jeabiows, the young and green Leaves of Coriander, or the Seeds of Cu- 
mine. The Spirit, as it enters the Nerves,carrying the alkaline Sulphur 
along with it; as when a City is betrayed by one of its Inhabitants to 
an Enemy. 
25. $. An Intermittent Taffe, as in Arum, feems to have its depen- 
dance upon a fimple and very pure Nitre, which by its fubtilty enters 
into the very Concaves of the Nervous Fibers of the Tongue: and lo 
being lodged there, is little affected or ftirred, by the Motion of the 
Blood ; but only when the Tongue it (elf is moved, at which time it 
caufeth a kind of pricking Tafte, 
16. $. A Tremulous Taste, asín Pyrethrum, dependeth probably, 
upon an Aercal Sulphur 5 which being agitated by the Blood in its Cir- 
culation, the fpringy Motion or Vibration of the Aereal Parts produce 
that Tufte. 
17. ra A Taft is Lingual, Guttural, &c. according to the grofneß 
or finenefs or other difference of the Membranes into which the taßable 
parts are admitted. For Tafts are made not meerly by the outward 
Contact, but the Ingre/s of the taffable parts. Now the outer Skin of 
the Tongue, which is commonly obferved to pill off in boyling, like the 
Cuticula in other Parts, hath either no £-nfe,or much lef than that which 
lies under it; and is therefore, but a Serve or Strainer to the tastable 
Parts, So that being of different fineneß in the feveral parts of the 
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