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Of Sweat - - 373 

 Of the Glow-worm - - 375 

 Of the Impressions upon the Body from Several Pas 

 sions of the Mind - - 376 

 OfDrunkenness 382 

 Of the Hurt or Help of Wine, taken moderately 384 

 Of Caterpillars ib. 

 Of the Flies Cantharides 385 

 Of Lassitude * : 386 

 Of Casting the Skin, and Shell, in some Creatures - ib. 

 Of the Postures of the Body 387 

 Of Pestilential years 388 

 Of Some Prognostics of Hard Winters 389 

 Of certain Medicines that Condense and Rarify the 



Spirits - ib. 



Of Paintings of the Body 390 



Of the Use of Bathing and Anointing 391 



Of Chambletting of Paper 392 



Of Cuttle Ink - - ib. 



Of Earth increasing in Weight ib. 



Of Sleep - 993 

 Of Teeth, and Hard Substances in the Bodies of Living 



Creatures 394 

 Of the Generation, and Bearing of Living Creatures in 



the Womb - 398 

 Of Species Visible 401 

 Of Impulsion and Percussion - - 402 

 Of Titillation - 403 

 Of Scarcity of Rain in Egypt - 404 

 Of Clarification - - 405 

 Of Plants without Leaves ib. 

 Of the Materials of Glass 406 

 Of Prohibition of Putrefaction, and the long Conser 

 vation of Bodies - ib. 

 Of Abundance of Nitre in certain Sea-shores - 40S 

 Of Bodies borne up by Water 409 

 Of Fuel consuming little or nothing ib. 

 Of Cheap Fuel 4lO 

 Of Gathering of Wind for Freshness - ib. 

 Of Trials of Air - 411 

 Of Increasing Milk in Milch Beasts ib. 

 Of Sand of the Nature of Glass - 412 

 Of the Growth of Coral ib. 

 Of the Gathering of Manna 413 

 Of the Correcting of Wines - ib. 

 Of Bitumen, one of the Materials of Wild-fire 414 

 Of Plaster growing as hard as Marble &quot;. ibl 

 Of the Cure of Ulcers and Hurts - - - T * 



