Page:The Works of Francis Bacon (1884) Volume 2.djvu/9

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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
Century IX.
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