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In the 1620s Francis Bacon wrote Sylva Sylvarum: Or, A Natural Historie. This is a book of experiments and observations such as "of making gold"; "of sweet smells"; or "of the tenderness of the teeth". In Sylva Sylvarum, Francis Bacon wrote of "Drunkennesse". Drunken men imagine every Thing turneth round; They imagine also that Things come upon them; They See not well Things afarre off; Those Things that they See nears Hand, they See out of their Place; And (sometimes) they see Things double. The Cause of the Imagination that Things turne Round, is, for that the Spirits themselves turne, being compressed by the Vapour of the Wine: (For any Liquid Body upon Compression, turneth, as we see in Water:) And it is all one to the Sight, whether the Visual Spirits move, or the Object moveth, or the Medium moveth. Francis Bacon died in 1626. When driving one day, he decided on impulse to discover whether snow would delay the process of putrefaction. He stopped his carriage, purchased a hen, and stuffed it with snow. He was seized with a sudden chill, which brought on bronchitis, and he died.
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