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OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.
CENTURY IX.
Of sweetness of odour from the rainbow,
Or perception in bodies insensible, tending to natural
divination or subtile trials,
Of the nature of appetite in the stomach,
Of sweet smells, .
Of the corporeal substance of smells,
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Of fetid and fragrant odours,
Of the causes of putrefaction,
Of bodies unperfectly mixt,
Of concoction and crudity,
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Of alterations, which may be called majors,
Of bodies liquefiable, and not liquefiable,
Of bodies fragile and tough,
Of the two kinds of pneumaticals in bodies,
Of concretion and dissolution of bodies,
Of bodies hard and soft,
Of ductile and tensile,
Of the altering of colours in hairs and feathers, 22
Of the difference of living creatures, male and female,
Of the comparative magnitude of living creatures, 23
Of producing fruit without core or stone,
Of the melioration of tobacco,
Of several heats working the same effects,
Of swelling and dilatation in boiling,
O the dulcoration of fruits,
Of the contrary operations of time on fruits and
liquors,
Of blows and bruises,
Of the orrice root,
Of the compression of liquors,
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Of the working of water upon air contiguous, ibid.
Of the nature of air,
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Of the eyes and sight,
Of the colour of the sea, or other water,
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Of shell-fish,
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Of the rolling and breaking of the seas,
Of the dulcoration of salt water,
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Of the return of saltness in pits upon the sea-shore,
Of the rise of water by means of flame,
Of the transmission and influx of immateriate vir-
tues, and the force of imagination,
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Of the emission of spirits in vapour, or exhalation,
odour-like,
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Of emission of spiritual species which affect the
senses,
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Of emissions of immateriate virtues, from the minds
and spirits of men, by affections, imagination, or
other impressions,
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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,
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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,
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Of the compounding, incorporating, or union of
metals or minerals,
Compound metals now in use,
Of the separation of metals and minerals,
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Of the variation of metals into several shapes, bodies,
or natures,
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Of the restitution of metals and minerals,
Inquisition concerning the versions, transmutations,
multiplications, and affections of bodies,
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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,
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Experiments about the commixture of liquors only,
not solids, without heat or agitation, but only by
simple composition and settling,
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A catalogue of bodies, attractive and not attractive,
together with experimental observations about
attraction,
MEDICAL REMAINS.
Grains of youth,
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A purge familiar for opening the liver,
Preserving ointments,
A restorative drink,
Against the waste of the body by heat,
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Methusalem water: Against all asperity and torre-
faction of inward parts, and all adustion of the
blood, and generally against the dryness of
age, ibid.
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,
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His lordship's broth and fomentation for the stone, 226
A manus Christi for the stomach,
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A secret for the stomach,
WORKS MORAL.
A Fragment of the colours of good and evil,
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28 Of expence,
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29 of the true greatness of kingdoms and estates,