534 NATURAL HISTORY. 



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, Sic. that will do good in one 

 body which will not do good in another ; according 

 to the correspondence the medicine hath to the 

 individual body. 



Experiment solitary touching the general sympathy of 

 mens spirits. 



1 000. The delight which men have in popularity^ 

 fame, honour, submission, and subjection of other 

 men s minds, wills, or affections, although these things 

 may be desired for other ends, seemeth to be a thing 

 in itself without contemplation of consequence, grate 

 ful and agreeable to the nature of man. This thing? 

 surely, is not without some signification, as if all spi 

 rits and souls of men came forth out of one divine 

 limbus ; else why should men be so much affected 

 with that which others think or say ? The best tem 

 per of minds desireth good name and true honour : 

 the lighter, popularity and applause : the more de 

 praved, subjection and tyranny ; as is seen in great 

 conquerors and troublers of the world : and yet 

 more in arch-heretics ; for the introducing of new 

 doctrines is likewise an affectation of tyranny over 

 the understandings and beliefs of men. 



