CONTENTS. xi 



CENTURY IV. 



PAGE 



Of Clarification of Liquors, and the Acceleration there 

 of 150 

 Of Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof; and of 



the Maturation of Drinks and Fruits 154 



Of Making Gold, - 159 



Of the Several Natures of Gold - - 133 



Of Inducing and Accelerating Putrefaction ib. 



Of Prohibiting and Preventing Putrefaction 4j , 157 



Of Rotten Wood Shining . 171 



Of Acceleration of Birth - ^ 



Of Acceleration of Growth and Stature - - 174 



Of Bodies Sulphureous and Mercurial 175 



Of the Chameleon - - ]77 



Of Subtenany Fires - - 178 



Of Nitrous Water - ib. 



Of Congealing of Air - ib. 



Of Congealing of Water into Crystal - 180 



Of Preserving the Smell and Colour in Rose Leaves - 181 



Of the Lasting of Flame - ib. 



Of Infusions or Burials of Divers Bodies in Earth. 187 



Of the Effects on Men s Bodies from Several Winds 189 



Of Winter and Summer Sicknesses ib. 



Of Pestilential Years - - ib. 



Of Epidemical Diseases - 190 



Of Preservation of Liquors in Wells, or deep Vaults ib. 



OfStuffinp: 191 



Of Sweet Smells - 192 



Of the Goodness and Choice of Waters - - 193 



Of Temperate Heats under the ^Equinoctial - 1&amp;lt;)6 



Of the Coloration of Black and Tawny Moors - 197 



Of Motion after the Instant of Death -. 197 



CENTURY V. 



Of Accelerating or Hastening Forward Germination 202 



Of Retarding or Putting Back Germination - 206 



Of Meliorating, or Making Better, Fruits, and Plants 209 



Of Compound Fruits and Flcvvers - - 226 



Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants 228 



Of Making Herbs and Fruits Medicinable - ! - 236 



CENTURY VI. 



Of Curiosities about Fruits and Plants . -^ 239 

 Of the Degenerating of Plants, and of their Transmu 

 tation one into another - - 246 



