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&quot; We have also fair and large baths, of several mix 

 tures, for the cure of diseases, and the restoring of 

 man s body from arefaction : and others for the con- - 

 firming of it in strength of sinews, vital parts, and the 

 very juice and substance of the body. 



&quot; We have also large and various orchards and gar 

 dens, wherein we do not so much respect beauty, as 

 variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and 

 herbs : and some very spacious, where trees and berries 

 are set whereof we make divers kinds of drinks, besides 

 the vineyards. In these we practise likewise all con 

 clusions of grafting and inoculating, as well of wild- 

 trees as fruit-trees, which produceth many effects. 

 And we make (by art) in the same orchards and 

 gardens, trees and flowers to come earlier or later 

 than their seasons ; and to come up and bear more 

 speedily than by their natural course they do. We 

 make them also by art greater much than their nature ; 

 and their fruit greater and sweeter and of differing 

 taste, smell, colour, and figure, from their nature. 

 And many of them we so order, as they become of 

 medicinal use. 



&quot; We have also means to make divers plants rise 

 by mixtures of earths without seeds ; and likewise to J 

 make divers new plants, differing from the vulgar ; 

 and to make one tree or plant turn into another. 



&quot; We have also parks and inclosures of all sorts of 

 beasts and birds, which we use not only for view or 

 rareness, but likewise for dissections and trials ; that 

 thereby we may take light what may be wrought upon 

 the body of man. Wherein we find many strange ef- 



but without any marked result. Some relief has been obtained in cases 

 of phthisis by inhaling oxygenated air. . L. E. 

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