INDEX. 



443 



grow out of, iv. 263 ; receipt for cure 

 of, vii. 238 ; weight of, in water, vii. 

 220 ; exudations of some are dia 

 monds, iv. 3. 



Stores of tackling, laying up, vi. 430. 



Straining water, difference where the 

 water rises or falls, iv. 2. 



Strawberries, how to accelerate the 

 growth of, iv. 202. 



String-metal, vii. 191. 



Strings, sounds of different, iv. 98 ; 

 tones of different sizes of, iv. 101. 



Stroud s case, vii. 376. 



Strumpet, matter is like a common, 

 iv. 425. 



Studies, set hours proper for, not agree 

 able, i. 133 ; essay on, i. 167 ; their 

 use, i. 167 ; they teach not their 

 own use, i. 167. 



Studies of learned men, discredit to 

 learning from, ii. 23. 



Study, mode of, adopted by Queen 

 Elizabeth, ii. 70. 



Stutting, experiment touching, iv. 191. 



Style of the king, suggestions relating 

 to, v. 27. 



Style of religious controversy, vii. 32. 



Style of delivery, ii. 201. 



Style, not to be neglected in philoso 

 phy, ii. 37. 



Styptic to stay fluxes, vii. 231. 



Styx, or league, iii. 9 ; to swear by the 

 sacrament of the ancients, iii. 9. 



Suarez, his treasonable letter, vi. 460. 



Sublimation of metals, vii. 206 210. 



Subsidies, statutes of, vi. 53. 



Subsidy, speech on the motion of a, vi. 

 75. 



Substances, hard ones in the bodies of 

 living creatures, iv. 394. 



Subdivision of labours, its produce on 

 the mind, i. 273. 



Subordinate magistrates, vi. 102. 



Succession to the crown, instances 

 where they were not declared, v. 419. 



Succession, hereditary, vii. 75. 



Suckling, Sir John, vii. 449. 



Suffocations, the most dangerous diseases 

 in the body, and also in the mind, 

 i. 88. 



Sugar, where found, iv. 285 ; experi 

 ment touching, iv. 456 ; with oil of 

 almonds, vii. 225. 



Suggestion and preparation, ii. 183. 



Suit, demurrers for discharging the, vii. 

 285 ; pleas for discharging, vii. 

 285. 



Suitors, to a minister, advice how to 

 behave towards, vi. 405 ; essay on, 

 i. 164 ; different motives for under 



taking suits, i. 165 ; in the courts of 

 chancery, vii. 246. 



Suits, what sort of, dismissed, vii. 277 ; 

 injunctions for stay of, vii. 283 ; 

 commission of, advice to the king for 

 reviving, vii. 428 ; on commissions 

 for charitable uses, vii. 293. 



Sulphur, sal, and mercury, separation 

 of, vii. 205. 



Sulphur and mercury, experiments on, 

 iv. 175. 



Sulpitius Galba s persuasions for the 

 Romans to war with the late Philip 

 king of Macedon, v. 245. 



Summer, great droughts in, iv. 428. 



Summary philosophy, its principles, ii. 

 134. 



Sun, magnetical of moisture, iv. 47 ; 

 hotter when between clouds than in 

 the open sky, i. 325. 



Sunbeams, heat by reflection, i. 327 ; 

 collection of, multiplies heat, i. 327 ; 

 their effect, i. 327329. 



Superfoetation, how it comes, iv. 259. 



Superficial learning, conceit of, ii. 80. 



Supernatation of bodies, iv. 417. 



Superflexion of echos, iv. 420. 



Superstition, its effect, i. 134; as 

 powerful as custom, i. 134 ; great op 

 ponent to natural philosophy, i. 315 ; 

 essay of, i. 57. 



Superstitions and natural causes, ii. 

 103. 



Superstitious divirration, ii. 171. 



Suplicavit, upon what granted, vii. 292. 



Supply, speech concerning the king s, 

 vi. 56. 



Surplice, vii. 84. 



Susa, the winter parlour of the king of 

 Persia, v. 335. 



Suspicion, essay on, i. Ill ; ignorance 

 its cause, i. 112. 



Sutton, Mr., advice to the king touch 

 ing his estate devised for founding 

 the Charterhouse, v. 374 ; his hos 

 pital, vii. 215. 



Sweat, experiments touching, iv. 373 ; 

 putrified smell of, iv. 496 ; use of 

 restraining, iv. 34. 



Sweating sickness, iii. 114. 



Sweats, of different men, iv. 4 ; cold, 

 often mortal, iv. 375. 



Swelling and dilitation in boiling, iv. 

 463. 



Swiftness, ii. 169. 



Swisses, first ruined the Duke of Bur 

 gundy, v. 72, 326 ; the ruin of 

 Louis XII. ; affairs in Italy in re 

 venge of a scorn put upon them by 

 him, v. 72, 326 ; in them the au- 



