Of exercise of the body, and the benefits or evils thereof.... 344

Of meats soon glutting, or not glutting

CENTURY IV.

345

Of clarification of liquors, and the acceleration thereof.... 346

Of maturation, and the accelerating thereof; and of the

Of preserving the smell and colour in rose leaves..

368

....

Of pestilential years ...

Of epidemical diseases

Of preservation of liquors in wells, or deep vaults

Of stutting..

Of sweet smells

Of the goodness and choice of waters

377

Of accelerating or hastening forward germination

Of retarding or putting back germination . . . .

Of meliorating, or making better, fruits and plants.

Of compound fruits and flowers.

Of sympathy and antipathy of plants.

Of making herbs and fruits medicinable

....

382

386

388

400

402

408

CENTURY VI.

Of curiosities about fruits and plants. .

410

Of the degenerating of plants, and of their transmutation

one into another ...

415

Of the procerity and lowness of plants, and of artificial

dwarfing them.

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Of the rudiments of plants, and of the excrescences of plants,

Of the affinities and differences between plants, and bodies

inanimate.....

Of affinities and differences between plants and living crea-

439

tures, and of the confiners and participles of both....

Of plants experiments promiscuous..

441

.......

442

Of the clearness of the sea, the north wind blowing..

Of the different heats of fire and boiling water.

464

464

Of leaping ....

Of the insecta, or creatures bred of putrefaction.......

Of the pleasures and displeasures of hearing, and of the other

senses

474

Of the glow-worm..

480

Of the impressions upon the body from several passions of

the mind....

480

Of drunkenness

485

Of the hurt or help of wine, taken moderately..

486

Of casting the skin, and shell, in some creatures..

488

Of certain medicines that condense and relieve the spirits... 490

Of teeth, and hard substances in the bodies of living crea-

tures.

.....

493

Of the generation, and bearing of living creatures in the

womb....

497

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Of prohibition of putrefaction, and the long conservation of

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bodies...

503

Of the cure of some ulcers and hurts ...........

Of the healthfulness or unhealthfulness of the southern wind 509

509

Of the flying of unequal bodies in the air....

Of water, that it may be the medium of sounds

511

512

Of the flight of the spirits upon odious objects.

512

Of the super-reflection of echos...

512

Of the force of imagination imitating that of the sense

513

Of preservation of bodies

513

Of the growth or multiplying of metals

514

Of the drowning the more base metal in the more precious 514

Of fixation of bodies

... 515

Of the restless nature of things in themselves, and their desire

to change

515