Thoughts, philosophical and medical / selected from the works of Francis Bacon ; with an essay on his health and medical writings by John Dowson.

  • Francis Bacon
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[1867]
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    long, thongli long enough to prevent him from proceeding on his mission. (L. & L. i. 304, 5.) By the end of the month he was again in London, but probably not in good health, for in the following month his mother writes to him from Gor- hambury, “ Look very well to your health. Sup not nor sit not up late. Surely I think your drinldng to bedwards hindreth your and your brother’s digestion very much. I never know any but sickly that used it; besides ill for head and eyes. Observe well yet in time. 20 A-ug. Gorha. In Christo, A. Bacon.” This “ drinking to bedwards” is explained by Aubrey, who says in his ^^Lettevs and Lives of Eminent M.e'ii^ ii, 225, “ His Lordship would often drink a good draught of strong beer (March beer) to bedwards, to lay his working fancy asleep: which otherwise would keep him from sleeping great part of the night.” Still debt and disease beset him. Anthony’s “ correspon- dence during this autumn is full of urgent applications to vari- ous friends for loans of money, and the following memorandum, shows that much of his own necessity arose from his anxiety to supply the necessities of his brother. Memorandum. That the fourth of October, ’94, at my brother coming to me after a fit of the stone, and falling into talk of the money he ought me as principal debt, he acknowledged to be due to me £650; whereof £200 I borrowed of Mr. Mills,” &c. (L. & L. i. 322.) and disappointment must again be added. In 1593 he had been candidate for the office of Attorney-General, but having found that this was to be given to Coke, the Solicitor-General he applied for the latter office, and was kept so long in sus- pense that he wrote to the Earl of Essex, “ I must confess this very delay hath gone so near mo, as it hath almost over- thrown my healthand in another letter, “ I hope Her
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