10 NATURAL HISTORY. 



ginneth to shew itself. But we shall handle thi8 

 point of nature fully in due place. 



Experiment solitary touching certain drinks in Turkey. 



705. They have in Turkey and the East certain 

 confections, which they call servets, which are like to 

 candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lem 

 ons, or sugar and citrons, or sugar and violets, and 

 some other flowers ; and some mixture of amber for 

 the more delicate persons : and those they dissolve in 

 water, and thereof make their drink, because they are 

 forbidden wine by their law. 1 But I do much marvel 

 that no Englishman, or Dutchman, or German, doth 

 set up brewing in Constantinople ; considering they 

 have such quantity of barley. For as for the general 

 sort of men, frugality may be the cause of drinking 

 water ; for that it is no small saving to pay nothing for 

 one s drink : but the better sort might well be at the 

 cost. And yet I wonder the less at it, because I see 

 France, Italy, or Spain, have not taken into use beer 

 or ale : which (perhaps) if they did, would better both 

 their healths and their complexions. It is likely it 

 would be matter of great gain to any that should 

 begin it in Turkey. 



Experiments in consort touching sweat. 2 



706. In bathing in hot water, sweat nevertheless 

 cometh not in the parts under the water. The cause 

 is : first, for that sweat is a kind of colliquation, and 



1 Sandys, p. 51. He like Bacon suggests the establishment of breweries 

 at Constantinople. 



2 For the statements in this and the next three paragraphs, see Arist 

 Prob. ii. 2, 3, 4. 16, and 23. 



