X1Y -CONTENTS. 



PAftE 



Of the Healthfulness or Unhealthfulness of the 



Southern Wind 415 



Of Wounds Made with Brass, and with Iron ib. 



Of Mortification by Cold - 416 



Of Weight - ib. 



Of Super-natation of Bodies - 417 



Of the Flying- of Unequal Bodies in the Air ib. 



Of Water, that it may be the Medium of Sounds - 418 



Of the Flight of the Spirits upon Odious Objects - 419 



Of the Super-reflection of Echos - 420 

 Of the Force of Imagination Imitating that of the 



Senses - ib. 



Of Preservation of Bodies 421 



Of the Growth or Multiplying of Metals ib. 

 Of the Drowning the more Base Metal in the more 



Precious 422 



Of Fixation of Bodies 423 

 Of the Restless Nature of Things in themselves, and 



their desire to Change 424 



CENTURY IX. 



Of Perception in Bodies Insensible, tending to Natu 

 ral Divination or Subtile Trials - 426 

 Of the Nature of Appetite in the Stomach - 436 

 Of Sweetness of Odour from the Rainbow - 437 

 Of Sweet Smells - - 438 

 Of the Corporeal Substance of Smells 439 

 Of Fetid and Fragrant Odours - ib. 

 Of the Causes of Putrefaction - 446 

 Of Bodies unperfectly Mixed - 447 

 Of Concoction n nd Crudity - ib. 

 Of Alterations, which may be called Majors 449 

 Of Bodies Liquefiable, and not Liquefiable 450 

 Of Bodies Fragile and Tough - 451 

 Of the two kinds of Pneumaticals in Bodies 452 

 Of Concretion and Dissolution of Bodies ib. 

 Of Bodies Hard and Soft 453 

 Of Ductile and Tensile 454 

 Of Several Passions of Matter^ and Characters of 



Bodies - ib. 



Of Induration by Sympathy 456 



Of Honey and Sugar ib. 



Of the Finer son of Base Metals 457 



Of Certain Cements and Quarries 458 



Of the Alienng of Colours in Hairs and Feathers ib. 

 Of the Difference of Living Creatures, Male and Female 459 



Of the Comparative Magnitude of Living Creatures - 46 1 



