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upon recovery of long sicknesses : which, commonly, 

 are plain champains, but grazing, and not over 

 grown with heath or the like ; or else timber-shades, 

 as in forests, and the like. It is noted also, that 

 groves of bays do forbid pestilent airs ; which was 

 accounted a great cause of the wholesome air of 

 Antiochia. There be also some soils that put forth 

 odorate herbs of themselves ; as wild thyme, wild 

 marjoram, pennyroyal, camomile ; and in which the 

 brier roses smell almost like musk-roses ; which no 

 doubt, are signs that do discover an excellent air, 



937. It were good for men to think of having 

 healthful air in their houses ; which will never be if 

 the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and 

 doors ; for the one maketh the air close, and not 

 fresh, and the other maketh it exceeding unequal ; 

 which is a great enemy to health. The windows also 

 should not be high up to the roof, which is in use for 

 beauty and magnificence, but low. Also stone-walls 

 are not wholesome ; but timber is more wholesome ; 

 and especially brick : nay, it hath been used by some 

 with great success to make their walls thick ; and to 

 put a lay of chalk between the bricks, to take away 

 all dampishness. 



Experiment solitary touching the emissions of spiritual 

 species which affect the senses. 



938. These emissions, as we said before, are 

 handled, and ought to be handled by themselves 

 under their proper titles : that is, visibles and audi- 

 bles, each apart : in this place it shall suffice to give 



