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aad ‘The feventh is, Separation of the cruder parts, and thereby making the |. 
Body more equal ; for all unperfect mixture is apt to putrifie, and Watey 
| fubftances are more apt to putrific, than oily: So, we fee diftilled Waters 
| will laft longer than raw Waters, and things that have pafled the F rej 
| do laft longer than thofe that have not paffed the Fire; as dried Pears) 
SECs ian (ig i Ba) Lath ae 
The eighthis, The drawing forth continually of that part, where the Pyrve- 
fattion_beginneth : Whichis (commonly) the looje and warry moifture ; not onely | 
for the reafon before given, that itprovoketh the radical moiftureto come | 
forth with it ; but becaufe being detained in the Body, the PutrefaGion | 
taking hold of it, infe@eththerelt : Aswe {een the Embalming of Dead’ 
Bodies. And the fame reafon is, of preferving Herbs, or Fruits, or Flowers, 
\in Bran or Meal. | 7385 Noa S es, 
| » Theninehis, The commixture of any thing thatis more oyly or fweet : For fuch | 
Bodies are leaftapt to putrific, the Air working little upon them, and they | 
not putcifying preferve the reft. And therefore we fee Syrrups and Oynt- } 
| ments will laft longer than Juyces. cA Sane 
: The tenthis, The commixtare of fomewhat that is dry ; for Putrefaétion | 
beginneth firft from the Spirits, and then from ‘the moifture ; and that | 
that is dry, is unapt to putrific. ‘And therefore {moak preferveth flefhs | 
_as we feein Bacon, and Neats-Tongues, and (A@irtlemas-Beef, Gc. 
The opinion of fome of the Ancients, That blewn Airs do preferve | 
Bodies longer than other Airs, feemeth to me probable; for that the | 
blown Airs, being over-charged and compretfied , will hardly receive the 
exhaling of any thing, but rather repulfe it. It was tryed in ‘a blown | 
Bladder, whereinto flefh was put, and likewife aFlower, and it forted not :} 
For dry Bladders will not blow,.and new Bladders rather further Putrefagti- | 
on. Thewaywere therefore, to blow ftrongly with a pair of Bellows, into | 
a Hogthead, putting into the Hogfhead (before) that which you would | 
have preferved ; andin the inftant that you withdraw the Bellows, ftop'the | 
hole clofe. cee 
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350. 
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Experiment 
Solitary, 
ep Experimentof Wood that fhineth in. thedark, we have diligently [ 
2 lk driven and purfued: The rather, for chat of all things that give light | 
here below, it is the moft durable, and hath leaftapparent motion. Fire } 
uy Shining and Flameare incontinual expence ; Sugar fhining onely whileit isin fera- } 
| ix the Darky | ping; and Salt-water while itis in dafhing ; Gloworms have theirfhining 
whilethey liye, ora little after; onely Scales of Fifhes (putrified) feem to | 
be of the fame nature with fhining Wood. And itis true, thatall Putre- | 
faétion hath with itan inward motion, as well as Fire orLight. The tryal 
| forted thus. | Je 
1. The fhining isin fome pieces more bright, in fome more dim ;| 
| but the moft bright, of all doth not attain to the light of a Gloworm. | 
2. The Woods that have been tryedto fhine, are chiefly Sallow and Wil- 
lows alfo, the Afh and Hafle, it may be, it holdeth in others. 3. ‘oth | 
Roots, and Bodies do fhine. but rhe Roats better. 4. The colour of 
fhining part, by day-light, is infome pieces white, in fome pieces incli 
to red; whichin the Country they callthe White and Red Carret. 5. % 
| part that fhincth, is (for the moft part) fomewhat foft, and moift to fi 
to; burfome was found tobe firm:andhard; foasit might be figur 
a Crofs, orinto Beads, &c. But-youmuft not look to have an Imag 
_| the like, in amy thing that is Lightfom ; for even a Face in Iron red 
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