The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

CONTENTS. V
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Of he glow-worm....................... 95 Of water, that it may be the medium of
Of the impressions upon the body from seve- sounds.............................. 107
ral passions of the mind............ 95 Of the flight of the spirits upon odious obOf drunkenness......................... 97 jects................................ 107
Of the hurt or help of wine, taken moderately 98 Of the super-reflection of echoes........... 107
Of caterpillars.......................... 98 Of the force of the imagination imitating that
Of the flies cantharides.................. 98 the senses........................... 107
Of lassitude............................ 98 Of preservation of bodies................. 108
Of casting of the skin, and shell, in some Of the growth or multiplying of metals.... 108
creatures.......................... 98 Of the drowning the more base metal in the
Of the postures of the body............... 99 more precious........................ 108
Of pestilential years..................... 99 Of fixation of bodies..................... 108
Of some prognostics of hard winters...... 99 Of the restless nature of things in themselves,
Of certain medicines that condense and rarefy and their desire to change............. 108
the spirits............................ 99
Of paintings of the body................. 99 CENTURY IX.
Of the use of bathing and anointing....... 99 Of perception in bodies insensible, tending to
Of chambletting of paper................. 100 natural divination or subtile trials....... 109
Of cuttle ink........................... 100 Of the nature of appetite in the stomach... 112
Of earth increasing in weight............. 100 Of sweetness of odour from the rainbow... 112
Of sleep................................ 100 Of sweet smells...............I.......... 112
Of teeth and hard substances in the bodies Of the corporeal substance of smells....... 112
of living creatures.................... 100 Of fetid and fragrant odours.............. 112
Of the generation, and bearing of living Of the causes of putrefaction.............. 113
creatures in the womb................ 101 Of bodies imperfectly mixed.............. 113
Of species visible........................ 102 Of concoction and crudity................ 113
Of impulsion and percussion............. 103 Of alterations, which may be called majors. 114
Of titillation............................ 103 Of bodies liquefiable, and not liquefiable.... 1.14
Of scarcity of rain in Egypt.............. 103 Of bodies fragile and tough........ 114
Of clarification.......................... 103 Of the two kinds of pneumaticals in bodies. 115
Of plants without leaves................. 103 Of concretion and dissolution of bodies..... 115
Of the materials of glass................. 104 Of bodies hard and soft.................. 115
Of prohibition of putrefaction, and the long Of ductile and tensile.................... 115
conservation of bodies................. 104 Of several passions of matter, and characters
Of abundance of nitre in certain sea-shores. 104 of bodies............................. 115
Of bodies borne up by water............. 104 Of induration by sympathy.............. 11 )
Of fuel consuming little or nothing........ 104 Of honey and sugar..................... 116
Of cheap fuel........................... 105 Of the finer sort of base metals............ 116
Of gathering of wind for freshness........ 105 Of certain cements and quarries.......... 117
Of trials of air........................ 105 Of the altering of colours in hairs and feathers 116
Of increasing milk in milch beasts........ 105 Of the difference of living creatures, male and
Of sand of the nature of glass............. 105 female............................... 117
Of the growth of coral.................. 105 Of the comparative magnitude of living
Of the gathering of manna............... 105 creatures............................. 117
Of the correcting of wines................ 106 Of producing fiuit without core or stone... 117
Of bitumen, one of the materials of wild-fire 106 Of the melioration of tobacco............. 117
Of plaster growing as hard as marble...... 106 Of several heats working the same effects.. 118
Of the cure of ulcers and hurts............ 106 Of swelling and dilatation in boiling....... 118
Of the healthfulness or unhealthfulness of Of the dulcoration of fruits............... 118
southern wind........................ 106 Of flesh edible and not edible............. 118
Of wounds made with brass, and with iron. 106 Of the salamander....................... 118
Of mortification by cold................. 106 Of the contrary operations of time on fruits
Of weight.............................. 106 and liquors........................... 119
Of supernatation of bodies................ 107 Of blows and bruises.................... 119
Of the flying of unequal bodies in the air.. 107 Of the orrice root....................... 119