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for that it made the body soft, and easy to waste. For 

 the Turks it is more proper, because that their drink 

 ing water, and feeding upon rice, and other food of 

 small nourishment, maketh their bodies so solid and 

 hard, as you need not fear that bathing should make 

 them frothy. Besides the Turks are great sitters, and 

 seldom walk, whereby they sweat less and need bath 

 ing more. But yet certain it is that bathing, and 

 especially anointing, may be so used as it may be a 

 great help to health and prolongation of life. But 

 hereof we shall speak in due place, when we come to 

 handle experiments medicinal. 



Experiment solitary touching chamoletting of paper. 



741. The Turks have a pretty art of chamoletting 

 of paper, which is not with us in use. 1 They take 

 divers oiled colours, and put them severally (in drops) 

 upon water ; and stir the water lightly ; and then wet 

 their paper (being of some thickness) with it ; and 

 the paper will be waved and veined, like chamolet 

 or marble. 



Experiment solitary touching cuttle-ink. 



742. It is somewhat strange, that the blood of all 

 birds and beasts and fishes should be of a red colour, 

 and only the blood of the cuttle should be as black as 

 ink. 2 A man would think, that the cause should be 



1 Sandys, p. 56. Beckmann, in speaking of the invention of this art, 

 mentions the passage in the text; but not being aware of the source of 

 Bacon s information, asserts that notwithstanding the name Turkish 

 paper, by which what is now called marbled paper used to be known, 

 the art of making it was discovered in Germany. 



2 That the black fluid of the cuttle-fish is not blood was remarked by 

 Aristotle, Hist. An. i. 4. The blood of the Invertebrata is most frequently 

 colourless. It is in some cases red. and often of other colours. The house 



