| ~The Hiiflory of Life and Death. 
ie Nitre giverr are good fucéefs in burning Agues, and Pe ftiléittial Fevers, to miti- 
7 gate and bridle their petnicious heats. 
Tt is manifeft, tha Wire ih Gan-powder doth mightily. abhor the Flame; from 
whence.is caufed that horrible Crack and puffing. 
Nutre i is found to be, as it'were, the Spérit of the Eatth:: for this is moft cer- 
tain, that any Earth, though pureand unmixt with Nitrous matter, if it be fo laid up 
\-and covered, that it be free from the Sun-beams, and putteth’forth no Vegetable, 
3 i gather Nitre, even in good abundance. By which it is clear, that the Spirit of 
ve is not onely inferiour to the | Spirit of living ‘Creatures ; but alfo to the. Spirit 
| of Vegetables. é 
tile which drink of Nitrous water do manifeltly grow fat which is af Gi gn of the 
; ‘cold in Nutre. ‘ Loy 
~ The manuring of the Soil'is ‘chiefly by Nitront forbpances 5 da ‘all Dung i is Nitrows, 
and this is a fi ign “of the Spirit in Nitre. 
From hence it appears 5 that the Spirits a Man may be doled and condenfed 
2 iene Spirit of Aztre, and be made more’ crude, and lefs eager. And therefore, 
ftrong Wines, and Spices, and theliké; do burn the Spirits, and fhorten life ; 
ae ‘on the contrary: fide , Nit doth sige ce and reprefs them » and furthereth to 
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ative may be. ited with meat,. by wich our salt, to the tld part of tHid Salt ; 
4 in roths. taken ji in the morning, ‘for three grains to ten, alfo i ii Beer: ? but’ how/oever 
it be ufed, with moderation, it is of | prime ferce'ts long Lifel 'oiy yoris vor: 
| As Opinm holds the prehieminence in condenfia ing the Spirits 5 by ‘putting chee to 
'| flight, and hath withal his Subordinates, lefs porent, but mote fafe, which maybe 
t en ‘both i in ‘greater quantity, and in more frequent ufe , Of which we have for- 
ner tly fpoken iy alfo Nutre, which condenfeth the Spirits by. cold; and by a kind of 
Frefcour, (aswe now a- days fpeak ) hath alfo his S ubordinates. 
” subordinates to Nitre are, all thofe: things’ which yield an’ Odour dnt Ear- 
: thy, ‘like the fmell of Earth,” pure and 20d, newly’ digoed ‘or turned up ; of this fort 
| the chief are, Borage, Bughofs , oo Langue de Bef , Burner y Strawberry leaves and 
‘Stramberries,Frambois or Rafpy,taw Sick es bay Pearmuins, Ais leaves, sis Buds 5 3 
alfo Violets, — 
he next in ofder ate thofe which have’ 4 conti fret nefs af fi nelly but fomew sie 
| more inclined to heat ; yet not altogether void of that vertue of refrething by ‘cool- 
| nefs§ “fuch as are Balm, green 1 Civont,. green Canes Rofé-water aiptilled, sroafted it ; 
| = the Damatk, ‘Red, and Atusk Rofes. 7 
his is to be. noted, that Subordinates to Witre do commonly. confer: ur een . 
if aie Paige then hayin ig pan fled the Fire, Beeaufe that® the’ Spirit of Cooling | 
' is diffipsced byt the Fire ; ; “théref ore “oe are belt taken, either suiiee in fome es 
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_As the condenfati on of the § bik by. Subordinate to Spin is in n forme forsee 
| a by the ely, teat the fame n nature. 
oe ee Be a certain Brent ord tho I lived Yong nt bar’ 
ae thereof. — a, lant s 
c Spirits “ Wee na) to be 5 that which we é call Pees the Sp 
ity ” 
ae, the a wali 
La he - to goal oabroady pena ail, “hat the Spit ated as it ‘were; 
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