Of the contrary operations of time on fruits and

liquors,

Of blows and bruises,

Of the orrice root,

Of the compression of liquors,

28

ibid.

29

ibid.

Of the working of water upon air contiguous, ibid.

Of the nature of air,

30

Of the eyes and sight,

ibid.

Of the colour of the sea, or other water,

32

Of shadows,

ibid.

Of the rolling and breaking of the seas,

Of the dulcoration of salt water,

ibid.

35

Of the return of saltness in pits upon the sea-shore,

Of the rise of water by means of flame,

Of creatures that sleep all winter,

Of the generating of creatures by copulation, and

by putrefaction,

CENTURY X.

ibid.

Of the transmission and influx of immateriate vir-

tues, and the force of imagination,

43

Of the emission of spirits in vapour, or exhalation,

49

odour-like,

Of emission of spiritual species which affect the

senses,

55

Of emissions of immateriate virtues, from the minds

and spirits of men, by affections, imagination, or

other impressions,

56

Of the secret virtue of sympathy and antipathy, 65

Of secret virtues and proprieties,

Of the general sympathy of mens spirits,

New Atlantis,

Mr. Bacon in praise of knowledge,

77

78

81

123

127

Valerius Terminus of the interpretation of nature:

a few fragments of the first book,

Filum Labyrinthi, sive Formula inquisitionis, 167

Sequela chartarum, sive inquisitio legitima de Calore

et Frigore,

PHYSIOLOGICAL REMAINS.

177

Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals, 187

Questions touching minerals, with Dr. Meverel's

solutions,

194

Of the compounding, incorporating, or union of

metals or minerals,

Compound metals now in use,

Of the separation of metals and minerals,

ibid.

198

199

Of the variation of metals into several shapes, bodies,

or natures,

201

206

207

Of the restitution of metals and minerals,

Inquisition concerning the versions, transmutations,

multiplications, and affections of bodies,

A speech concerning the recovering of drowned

mineral works,

Experiments about weight in air and water, 210

Certain sudden thoughts of the lord Bacon, set down

by him under the title of Experiments for Profit,

208

212

Experiments about the commixture of liquors only,

not solids, without heat or agitation, but only by

simple composition and settling,

213

A catalogue of bodies, attractive and not attractive,

together with experimental observations about

attraction,

MEDICAL REMAINS.

Grains of youth,

215

217

ibid,

A purge familiar for opening the liver,

ibid.

Preserving ointments,

Wine for the spirits

217

The preparing of saffron,

218

Wine against adverse melancholy, preserving the

senses and the reason,

ibid.

Breakfast preservative against the gout and

rhcums,

The preparation of garlick,

ibid.

ibid.

The artificial preparation of damask roses for

smell,

A restorative drink,

Against the waste of the body by heat,

ibid.

ibid.

219

ibid.

Methusalem water: Against all asperity and torre-

faction of inward parts, and all adustion of the

blood, and generally against the dryness of

age,

A catalogue of astringents, openers, and cordials,220

An extract by the lord Bacon, for his own use, out

of the book of the prolongation of life, together

with some new advices in order to health,

MEDICAL RECEIPTS.

His lordship's usual receipt for the gout,

223

225

His lordship's broth and fomentation for the stone, 226

A manus Christi for the stomach,

227

ibid.

A secret for the stomach,

WORKS MORAL.

A Fragment of the colours of good and evil,

231

vii

28 Of expence,

321

29 of the true greatness of kingdoms and estates,

322

viii

Of a king,

A fragment of an essay on fame,

55 Of honour and reputation,

381

56 Of judicature,

57 Of anger,

58 Of vicissitude of things,

382

386

388

393

395

A COLLECTION of APOPHTHEGMS, new and old, 401

Ornamenta rationalia,

Short notes for civil conversation,

An essay on death,

464

472

473

The characters of a believing Christian, in para-

doxes, and seeming contradictions,

499

494

An advertisement touching the controversies of the

Church of England,

Certain considerations touching the better pacifica-

tion and edification of the Church of England, 524

Circumstances in the government of bishops, 531

Concerning the liturgy, the ceremonies and sub-
scription,

Touching a preaching ministry,

Touching the abuse of excommunication,

Touching non-residents and pluralities,

537

541

545

546

Touching the provision for sufficient maintenance in

the church,