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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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After
this
the
Patient
is
wrapt
into
a
Cere-cloth,
prepared
of
certain
Gums
and
Juices,
wherein
he
continues
until
the
time
of
nine
Months
be
expired
from
the
first
beginning
of
the
cure,
which
is
the
time
of
a
Childs
formation
in
the
Womb.
In
the
mean
while,
his
diet
is
nothing
else
but
Eagles-eggs,
and
Hinds-milk;
and
after
the
Cere-cloth
is
taken
away,
he
will
appear
of
the
age
of
Twenty,
both
in
shape,
and
strength.
The
weaker
sort
of
this
Gum
is
soveraign
in
healing
of
wounds,
and
curing
of
slight
distempers.
But
this
is
also
to
be
observed,
that
none
of
the
Imperial
race
does
use
any
other
drink
but
Lime-water,
or
water
in
which
Lime-stone
is
immerged;
their
meat
is
nothing
else
but
Fowl
of
several
sorts,
their
recreations
are
many,
but
chiefly
Hunting.
This
Relation
amazed
the
Empress
very
much;
for
though
in
the
World
she
came
from,
she
had
heard
great
reports
of
the
Philosophers-stone,
yet
had
she
not
heard
of
any
that
had
ever
found
it
out,
which
made
her
believe
that
it
was
but
a
Chymera;
she
called
also
to
mind,
that
there
had
been
in
the
same
World
a
Man
who
had
a
little
Stone
which
cured
all
kinds
of
Diseases
outward
and
inward,
according
it
was
applied;
and
that
a
famous
Chymist
had
found
out
a
certain
Liquor
called
Alkahest,
which
by
the
vertue
of
its
own
fire,
consumed
all
Diseases;
but
she
had
never
heard
of
a
Medicine
that
could
renew
old
Age,
and
render
it
beautiful,
vigorous
and
strong:
Nor
would
she
have
so
easily
believed
it,
had
it
been
a
medicine
prepared
by
Art;
for
she
knew
that
Art,
being
Natures
Changeling,
was
not
able
to
produce
such
a
powerful
effect;
but
being
that
the
Gum
did
grow
naturally,
she
did
not
so
much
scruple
at
it;
for
she
knew
that
Nature's
Works
are
so
various
and
wonderful,
that
no
particular
Creature
is
able
to
trace
her
ways.
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