CONTENTS
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Of the glow-worm | 95 | ||
Of the impressions upon the body from several passions of the mind | 95 | ||
Of drunkenness | 97 | ||
Of the hurt or help of wine, taken moderately | 98 | ||
Of caterpillars | 98 | ||
Of the flies cantharides | 98 | ||
Of lassitude | 98 | ||
Of casting of the skin, and shell, in some creatures | 98 | ||
Of the postures of the body | 99 | ||
Of pestilential years | 99 | ||
Of some prognostics of hard winters | 99 | ||
Of certain medicines that condense and rarefy the spirits | 99 | ||
Of paintings of the body | 99 | ||
Of the use of bathing and anointing | 99 | ||
Of chambletting of paper | 100 | ||
Of cuttle ink | 100 | ||
Of earth increasing in weight | 100 | ||
Of sleep | 100 | ||
Of teeth and hard substances in the bodies of living creatures | 100 | ||
Of the generation, and bearing of living creatures in the womb | 101 | ||
Of species visible | 102 | ||
Of impulsion and percussion | 103 | ||
Of titillation | 103 | ||
Of scarcity of rain in Egypt | 103 | ||
Of clarification | 103 | ||
Of plants without leaves | 103 | ||
Of the materials of glass | 104 | ||
Of prohibition of putrefaction, and the long conservation of bodies | 104 | ||
Of abundance of nitre in certain sea-shores | 104 | ||
Of bodies borne up by water | 104 | ||
Of fuel consuming little or nothing | 104 | ||
Of cheap fuel | 105 | ||
Of gathering of wind for freshness | 105 | ||
Of trials of air | 105 | ||
Of increasing milk in milch beasts | 105 | ||
Of sand of the nature of glass | 105 | ||
Of the growth of coral | 105 | ||
Of the gathering of manna | 105 | ||
Of the correcting of wines | 106 | ||
Of bitumen, one of the materials of wild-fire | 106 | ||
Of plaster growing as hard as marble | 106 | ||
Of the cure of ulcers and hurts | 106 | ||
Of the healthfulness or unhealthfulness of southern wind | 106 | ||
Of wounds made with brass, and with iron | 106 | ||
Of mortification by cold | 106 | ||
Of weight 106 | |||
Of supernatation of bodies 107 | |||
Of the living of unequal bodies in the air | 107 | ||
Of water, that it may be the medium of sounds 107 | |||
Of the flight of the spirits upon odious objects | 107 | ||
Of the super-reflection of echoes | 107 | ||
Of the force of the imagination imitating that of the senses | 107 | ||
Of preservation of bodies | 108 | ||
Of the growth or multiplying of metals | 108 | ||
Of the drowning the more base metal in the more precious | 108 | ||
Of fixation of bodies | 108 | ||
Of the restless nature of things in themselves, and their desire to change | 108 | ||
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Of perception in bodies insensible, tending to natural divination or subtile trials | 109 | ||
Of the nature of appetite in the stomach | 112 | ||
Of sweetness of odour from the rainbow | 112 | ||
Of sweet smells | 112 | ||
Of the corporeal substance of smells | 112 | ||
Of fetid and fragrant odours | 112 | ||
Of the causes of putrefaction | 113 | ||
Of bodies imperfectly mixed | 113 | ||
Of concoction and crudity | 113 | ||
Of alterations, which may be called majors | 114 | ||
Of bodies liquefiable, and not liquefiable | 114 | ||
Of bodies fragile and tough | 114 | ||
Of the two kinds of pneumaticals in bodies | 115 | ||
Of concretion and dissolution of bodies | 115 | ||
Of bodies hard and soft | 115 | ||
Of ductile and tensile | 115 | ||
Of several passions of matter, and characters of bodies | 115 | ||
Of induration by sympathy | 116 | ||
Of honey and sugar | 116 | ||
Of the finer sort of base metals | 116 | ||
Of certain cements and quarries | 117 | ||
Of the altering of colours in hairs and feathers | 116 | ||
Of the difference of living creatures, male and female | 117 | ||
Of the comparative magnitude of living creatures | 117 | ||
Of producing fruit without core or stone | 117 | ||
Of the melioration of tobacco | 117 | ||
Of several heats working the same effects | 118 | ||
Of swelling and dilatation in boiling | 118 | ||
Of the dulcoration of fruits | 118 | ||
Of flesh edible and not edible | 118 | ||
Of the salamander | 118 | ||
Of the contrary operations of time on fruits and liquors | 119 | ||
Of blows and bruises | 119 | ||
Of the orrice root | 119 |