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Of Preservation of Bodies ... .58 



Of the Growth or Multiplying of Metals . . .5% 

 Of the Drowning the more Base Metal in the more Pre 

 cious . . . . . . .59 



Of Fixation of Bodies . . . . .60 



Of the Restless Nature of Things in themselves, and their 



Desire to Change . . . . . 61 



CENTURY IX 



Of Perception in Bodies Insensible, tending to Natural Divi 

 nation and Subtile Trials . . . . .63 

 Of the Causes of Appetite in the Stomach . . .73 

 Of Sweetness of Odour from the Rainbow . . .74 

 Of Sweet Smells . . . . .. .75 

 Of the Corporeal Substance of Smells . . .75 

 Of Fetid and Fragrant Odours . . . .76 

 Of the Causes of Putrefaction . . .78 

 Of Bodies imperfectly Mixed ... . .79 

 Of Concoction and Crudity . . . . .79 

 Of Alterations, which may be called Majors . .81 

 Of Bodies Liquefiable, and not Liquefiable . . .82 

 Of Bodies Fragile and Tough . . . .83 

 Of the two Kinds of Pneumaticals in Bodies . . 83 

 Of Concretion and Dissolution of Bodies . . .84 

 Of Bodies Hard and Soft ... .85 

 Of Bodies Ductile and Tensile . . . .85 

 Of several Passions of Matter, and Characters of Bodies . 86 

 Of Induration by Sympathy . . . . .87 

 Of Honey and Sugar . . .88 

 Of the Finer sort of Base Metals . . 89 

 Of Certain Cements and Quarries . . . .89 

 Of the Altering of Colours in Hairs and Feathers . . 90 

 Of the Differences of Living Creatures, Male and Female . 90 

 Of the Comparative Magnitude of Living Creatures . 92 

 Of Producing Fruit without Core or Stone . . 93 

 Of the Melioration of Tobacco . . .93 

 Of several Heats working the same Effects . . .94 

 Of Swelling and Dilatation in Boiling . . 95 



