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not so easy to resolve into vapour. Nay further, it 

 is thought to be some remedy against inebriating, if 

 wine sugared be taken after wine pure. And the 

 same effect is wrought either by oil or milk, taken 

 upon much drinking. 



Experiment solitary touching the help or hurt of wine, 

 tJiough moderately used. 



727. The use of wine in dry and consumed bodies 

 is hurtful ; in moist and full bodies it is good. The 

 cause is, for that the spirits of the wine do prey upon 

 the dew or radical moisture (as they term it) of the 

 body, and so deceive the animal spirits. But where 

 there is moisture enough, or superfluous, there wine 

 helpeth to digest and desiccate the moisture. 



Experiment solitary touching caterpillars. 



728. The caterpillar is one of the most general of 

 worms, and breedeth of dew and leaves ; for we see 

 infinite number of caterpillars which breed upon trees 

 and hedges, by which the leaves of the trees or hedges 

 are in great part consumed ; as well by their breed 

 ing out of the leaf, as by their feeding upon the leaf. 

 They breed in the spring chiefly, because then there is 

 both dew and leaf. And they breed commonly when 

 the east winds have much blown ; the cause whereof 

 is, the dryness of that wind ; for to all vivification 

 upon putrefaction, it is requisite the matter be not too 

 moist : and therefore we see they have cobwebs about 

 them, which is a sign of a slimy dryness ; as we see 

 upon the ground, whereupon, by dew and sun, cob 

 webs breed all over. We see also the green cater 

 pillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses, especially 



