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ascribing them to secret and hidden virtues and pro 

 prieties ; (for this hath arrested and laid asleep all true 

 inquiry and indications ;) yet I do not understand but 

 that in the practical part of knowledge, much will be 

 left to experience and probation, whereunto indication 

 cannot so fully reach : and this not only in specie, but 

 in individuo. So in physic, if you will cure the jaun 

 dice, 1 it is not enough to say that the medicine must 

 not be cooling ; for that will hinder the opening which 

 the disease requireth : that it must not be hot ; for that 

 will exasperate choler: that it must go to the gall ; for 

 there is the obstruction which causeth the disease, &c. 

 But you must receive from experience, that powder of 

 Chamgepitys, or the like, drunk in beer, is good for the 

 jaundice. 2 So again, a wise physician doth not con 

 tinue still the same medicine to a patient ; but he will 

 vary, if the first medicine doth not apparently succeed : 

 for of those remedies that are good for the jaundice, 

 stone, agues, &c., that will do .good in one body which 

 will not do good in another ; according to the corre 

 spondence the medicine hath to the individual body. 



^Experiment solitary touching the general sympathy of 

 men s spirits. 



1000. The delight which men have in popularity, 

 fame, honour, submission and subjection of other men s 

 minds, wills, or affections, (although these things may 

 lie desired for other ends,) seemeth to be a thing in 

 itself, without contemplation of consequence, grateful 

 and agreeable to the nature of man. This thing 

 (surely) is not without some signification, as if all 

 spirits and souls of men came forth out of one divine 



l jaundies in the original. J. 8. 2 See Pliny, xxiv. 20. 



