from [everal 
Winds, 
332. 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
hing 
i 
| 
Hrouc 
Winter and 
Summers Sick- 
neffes. 
3 83. 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching . 
Peftilential 
Seafonse 
| 384. 
' | Experiment 
i Solitary, 
i touching 42 
| Error vecesved 
| about Epide- 
i mical Difeales. 
| 385. 
| Experiment 
olitary, - 
‘ touching the 
- | Lalteration or 
| Prefervation 
lof Liquors in 
| Wells, or deep 
\Vaults. 
ng 
a SS DE FEM Ban BS LI 
| dent. 
| than Bowles ofthe fame Drinks and ftalenefs,.;kept in aCeller. 
we 0 
Natural Hiftory ; 
| There hath been a Tradition, that Pearl, and Coral, Surchois-S uid 
chat have loft their Colours, may be recovered by burying in the Barth; 
which is a thing of great profit, if ir would fort : Butupon tryal of fix 
weeks Burial, there followed no effe&. It were good tortry it in ade 
Well, or ina Confervatory of Snow, where the cold may be more con-|_ 
ftringents and fo make the Body more united, and thercby. more refp a 
tis 
ep. 
a 
Enns Bodies are heavier and lefs difpofed to Motion when Southern | 
Windsblow, then when Northern. The caufeis, for that when the | 
Southern Winds blow, the Humors do (in fome degree) melt, and ‘ail 
fluide, andfo flow into theparts ; as itisfeen in Wood, and pee Bodies rr 
which when rhe Southern Winds blow, dofwell. Befides, the Motion and |) 
Agtivity of the Body confitteth chiefly in the finews, which, when the 
Southern Wind bloweth, are more relax. — | 
LF is commonly feen, that more are fick inthe Summer, and moredye ide 
the Winter ; except it be in Peftilent Difeafes, which commonly reign in | 
Summer or Avtumn.* The reafon is, becaufe Difeafes are’ bred (indeed) | 
chiefly by Heat; but thenékey are cured moft by Sweat and Purge, which | 
intheSummer cometh on, or is provoked more eafily : As for Peftilenes 
Difeafes, the Reafon why moft dye of them inSummer, is becaufethey are 
bred moft in the Summer 5 for otherwi(e, thofe that are touched are in riot ’ 
dangerin the Winter. | 
Tt general opinion is, That Yearshct and moift, are moft Peftilent $ 
upon the fuperficial Ground, that Heat and Moifture caule PutrefaGti- | 
on. In England it isfound nortrues for, many times, there have been great 
Plaguesin dry years. WVhereof the caufe may be, for that drought in the | 
Bodies of Iflanders, habitnate to moift Airs, doth exafperate the Humors, | 
and makeththemmore apt to Putrifie or Enflame; befides, it taintech eliel 
VVaters (commonly ) and maketh them lefs wholfome. And again in a 
Barbary, the Plagues break up in the Summer-Moneths, whenthe VVeather i 
is hot and dry. | | ; 4) 
z 
i 
Mn D,feafes, (both Epidemical and others) break forth at particular | 
‘fi times. And the caufe isfalfy imputed tothe conftitution of the Alea 
atthattime, when they break forth orreigns whereasit proceedeth (inde dy | 
from :a. Precedent Sequence, and Series of the Seafons of the Year : A 
therefore Hippocrates, in his Prognofticks, doth make good obferyations of 
a ee that enfue upon the Nature of the precedent four Seafons of 
the Year. eo al 
Ryal hath been made with Earchen Bottles, well ftopped, hanged ir 
|. VVell of Twenty Fathom deep, at the leat; and tome of the Bottle 
have been let downinrothe VVater, fome others have hanged above, 
in abouta Fathom of the VVaters and the Liquors fo tryed have been, | 
(nor new, but ready for drinking) and VViné, and Milk. The pro | 
been: ithatboth the Beer, andthe VVine, (as well within V Vater, as 
| have nor been -palled or deaded atiall ; but as. good, or fomewha 
Bi 
| which did hang above VVater, were apparently the beft ; and that Be 
