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see that amongst the Jews the principal perfume 

 of the sanctuary was forbidden all common uses. 



933. There be some perfumes prescribed by the 

 writers of natural magic, which procure pleasant 

 dreams : and some others, as they say, that procure 

 prophetical dreams ; as the seeds of flax, fleawort, 

 &c. 



934. It is certain, that odours do, in a small 

 degree, nourish ; especially the odour of wine : and 

 we see men an hungered do love to smell hot bread. 

 It is related that Democritus, when he lay a dying, 

 heard a woman in the house complain that she should 

 be kept from being at a feast and solemnity, which 

 she much desired to see, because there would be 

 a corpse in the house ; whereupon he caused loaves 

 of new bread to be sent for, and opened them, and 

 poured a little wine into them ; aud so kept him 

 self alive with the odour of them, till the feast was 

 past. I knew a gentleman that would fast, some 

 times three or four, yea, five days, without meat^ 

 bread, or drink; but the same man used to have 

 continually a great wisp of herbs that he smelled on : 

 and amongst those herbs, some esculent herbs of 

 strong scent ; as onions, garlic, leeks, and the like. 



935. They do use, for the accident of the mother, 

 to burn feathers and other things of ill odour ; and 

 by those ill smells the rising of the mother is put 

 down. 



936. There be airs which the physicians advise 

 their patients to remove unto, in consumptions or 



