Century. V! I. 
the Stalke, another to the Fruit or Seedy but the ArtichoAe : Ho Flower 
hath that kinde of Spread that the woodbine hath. This may bee a large 
Fieldof Contemplation; For it fheweth that in the Frame of Nature, 
there is, in the Producing of fome Species, a Compofition of Matter 3 
which happeneth oft, and may be much diuerfified: In others, fuchas 
happeneth rarely, and admitteth little Variety : For fo it is likewife in 
Beajis: Dogs haue a Refemblance with wolues, and Foxes 3 Horfes with 
Affes-, Kins with Bufles • Hares with Conies • &c. And fo in Birds .• Kites 
and Kcftrells haue a Refemblance with Hawkes 3 common Doues with 
Ring-Doties, and Tunits • Black-Birds with Thrufhes and Mautjfes ; Crowes 
with Rauens, Dawes, and Choughs , &c. But Elephants, and Swine amongft 
Beafts ; And the Bird of Par adi/e, and the Peacocke amongft Birds j And 
fome few others 5 haue fcarce any other Species, that haue Affinity with 
them. 
Weelcaue the Description of Plants, and their Vertues , to 
Herbal! s, and other lik cBookes of Ts^aturad Hiflory; Wherein 
Mens diligence hath beene great, euen to Curiofity ; For our 
Experiments arc only fuch, as doe euer afeend a Degree, to the 
Drriuing oi Caujes , and Extracting of Axiomes, which, wee 
arc not ignorant, but that fome, both of the Ancient and Mo- 
derne Writers, haue alfo laboured, But their Caufes, and Axi - 
omesyzxcio full of Imagination,and fo infected with the old 
Receiued Theories , as they are mcere Inquinations of Expert 
ence , and Conco6t it nor. 
I T hath beene obferued, by fome of the Ancients , that Skins, (efpeci- 
allvof Rams,) newly pulled off, and applied to th e wounds of Stripes , 
doe keepethem from Swelling, and Exulcerating • And likewife Heale 
them, and Clofe them vp, And that the whites of Egs doe the fame. The 
Catife, is a Temperate Conglutination 5 For both bodies are Clammy, and 
Vifcous, and doe bridle the Deflux of Humours to the Hurts, without 
Penning them in too much* 
Y Oti mavturne (almoft) all Flefh into a Patty sub fiance^ if you rake 
Fleflj, and cut it into Pceces, and put thePeeces into a Glaffe coue- 
red with Parchment* And fb let the Gla{fe ftandfix or feuenHoures in 
Boyltng Water. If maybe an Experiment of Profir, for Making off**, or 
Greafe for many vfes ; But then it muft be of fuch Flefb as is not Edible - 
As Horfes, Dogs, Bearcs , Foxes, Badgers, &c. 
I T is reported by one of the Ancients, that New wine put into Veffels 
well flopped, and the tejfcls let downe into the Sea , will accelerate 
very much, the Making of them Ripe and Potable. The fame would be 
tried in Wort. 
P 2 Beafts 
Experitoenc 
Solitary tou¬ 
ching Healing 
ot Wounds. 
Experiment 
Solitary tou¬ 
ching Fatdiffu. 
fed in Fhjb. 1 
678 
Experiment 
Solitary tou¬ 
ching Ripening 
of Dri/ilt before 
the Time. 
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