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Show The Diverfities Led, VI fallying the Salts ofthe one, and difarming the Swlphurs of the other. But fome, wherein the Sulpburcous parts are more copious, will hardly ever become Sewer. Hence alfo, fome Plants, whofe Roots are neither Hot, nor of any {trong Tafte, as thofe of Wild Anemone 5 yet their Leaves and Flowers are plainly Cauftick : So that it feems, that as their Juyces rife up into the Traxk or Stalk,andare therein further fermented, the Sulpharews Parts thereof, are at the fame time relaxed from the other Priwciples, and acuated with an Aereal Salt. 10. §. A Stupifucient Taft (asthe Impreffion which fome Hot Plants make upon the Tovgue may becalled) is in fome fort, analogous to the mortifying of anypart of the Body by the application of a Canftick. Foras there the mortification fucceeds the burning pain, fo here, the Stupifadion, neither comes before, nor with the Heat, but follows it. II. §. Soweetuefi is produced, fometimes by an Alkaly 5 {moothed either by a Sulphur, asin Lime-Water 3 or by both a Spirit and a Sul- phur, asin the Stillatitions Oyls of Avimals, a fmoothed Acids asin Mult, Sugar, Hony. But moft commonly, by Hence a Sweet Tajte, 1s generally founded in a Sower; SoSower Apples, by mellowing, and har(h Pears, by baking become {weet the spirit and sulphur being hereby at once feparated from the other Principles and brought to a nearer union with the Acid. So the Sower Leaves of Wood-Sorrel, being dry’d, become fweet: and thofe of a fower Codlin, while they hang on the Tree, and evenof a Crab-Tree, are neither Asfringent, nor fower, but fenfibly fweet. Andfo commonly, whereverthe faid Principles area little exalted bya foft Fermentation ; asin the Fuyce of the Stalkof Maze or Indian Wheat, whichisa {weet as Sugar 5 and in the green Stalks ofall forts of Gorn and Grajs, in feveraldegrees. So likewife Tulips and fome other Roots, being taken up, in open weather, fometime before they fprovt 5 iftafted, are as {weet as Liquirifh or Sugar and at no other time: not only Fruits, but many Roots, Seeds, and other Parts, upon their firft or early Germination, acquiring a curious MeVownefs, wherein, all their Principles are refolved, and their moft Spirituows Parts exalted and fpread over the Acid. Wherefore alfo moft Roots, which are not meerly Jong, but grow deep in the ground, have at leaft fome of their Fujces of a fweet Taft 5 as Liquirifh, Eryngo, Hounds-Tongue, Garden-Par{nep, Black, Henbeane, Deadly Night- fhade, Gc. Even the Fuyce of Horfe Radifh, which bleeds at the Lyn- phedudis, is of afweet Tafte. And of the fame kindred thofe which growthe deepeft, are the fweeteft ; as a Par/ep is fweeter than a Carroot, efpecially if you taft the bleeding Sep; and the Root of Common Tall Trefoyl tafteth fomewhat like Li h, but is not near fo fweet. Forall deep Roots, are fed with a Nitrous Aliment : and being remoter fromthe Aer, their Fuyces pafs under much morefoft and moderate Fermentatious. 12. §. Bitternefi is produced by a Sulphur well impregnated,either with an Alkaline, or an Acid Salt, but alfo thackled with Earth. And therefore the Bitteref? Plants, commonly yield the greateft quantity of Lixivial Salt. So alfo many Stillatitiows Oyls digefted with any ftrong Acid, will acquire a Bitter Tate. Whereforethis Taffe is often founded either ina Hot Taffe, ora Sweet. fweet Roots are Bitter. Fruit, bleeds aBitter Milk, THO fil ih Hence it is, that the Leaves of all And that the Fig-Ivee, which bears a {weet So likewife thofe Plants, which bear 2 Bitter of Tafts, Bitter Stalk, have not Bitter, but Hot Roots, asin Yarrow, Primrofe, Wormwood, Rue, Carduns benedittus &c. is manifeft. So the Coats of the Seeds of Viola Lunariaare of a hot and biting Taft; but the Seeds themfelves; in which the Salts, though copious, yet are alfo immerfed ina greater quantity of Oy/, are Bitter. Andthat the Earthy Parts do alfo contribute fomething moreto this,than to moft of the foremention- ed Tafis,is argued from its being more Fixed that is,the Body in which it refides, is either more Fixed, or elfe flyeth not awayin that fame {tate of conjunction, by whichit maketh a Bitter Taffe. For whereas Hot, Biting, and divers other Plants lofe the ftrength of their Tajfe, by drying 3 moft of thofe which are Bitter, do herebyincreafe it. And although the Extract of Dandelion and fome other Roofs, which are very Bitter, hath {carce any Taf? yet generally, theyare Bitter Plants, which are beft for the making of Extraéfs. And the diftilled waters of Plants which are Hot and Bitter, notwithftanding that they always taft high of the Heat, yet rarely and very faintly of the B7tier. 13. §. Affringency, is made, partly, by the further increafe and more intimate union of the Earth. And therefore this is feated {till in a more Fixed Compofition, than a Bitter, Andpartly, by the diminution of the sulphur. And therefore the Acid Parts ingredient to it, either by Fermentation or otherwife, are eafily expofed. Afiringency being the Womb or Bud of a Sower. Forall or molt Aftringent Roots bear a fower Leaf, or afower Fruits asthofe ofall Docks and Sorrels, Black-Thorn, Dog-Rofé, and others. Wherefore alfo, Aflringency is often found in conjuction with Bitter, Sweet, or Somer but fcarce ever with Pungent, or Hot. 14. g. An Aromatick Taft, feems to be produced, chiefly, by a pirituons, acid, and volatile Sulphur as in Ambar-griefe, Cardamon- “seeds, many Stillatitions Oyls &c. A Naufeows, by a Sulphurlels Spirt- inos and Volatile, and more Alkaline 5 asin the Root of Dog-/tones,Sheep- feabious, the young and green Leaves ofCoriander, or the Seeds ofCumine, The Spirit, as it enters the Nerves,carrying the Alkaline Sulphur along with it; as when a City is betrayed byoneofits Inhabitants to an Enemy. 25. §. AnIntermittent Tafie, as in Arum, feems to have its depen- dance upon a fimple and very pure Nitre, which byits fubtilty enters into the very Concaves of the Nervous Fibers of the Tongue: and fo being lodged there, islittle affetted or ftirred, by the Motion of the Blood, but only when the Tongueit {elf is moved, at which time it caufeth a kind of pricking Ta/fe. 16. §. A Tremulows Taste, asin Pyrethrum, dependeth probably, upon an Aereal Sulphur5 which being agitated by the Blood in its Circulation, the fpringy Motion oxVibration of the Aereal Parts produce that Taffe. 17. §. A Taft is Lingual, Guttural, &c. according to the grofnels or finene or other difference of the Membranes into which the taflable parts are admitted. For Tafts are made not meerly by the outward Conta, but the Ingre/s of the taftable parts. Now the outer Skin of the Tongue, which is commonly obfervedtopill off in boyling, like the Cuticula in otherParts, hath cither no fen'e,or muchlefs than that which lies under it 3 andis therefore, buta Se#ve or Strainer to the tastable parts. So that being of different finenefs in the feveral parts of the Uu Tongues |