INDEX. 0.37 



Diets, experiment salutary touching, 44. 

 Diseases infectious, different kinds of, 146. 

 Disease, epidemical, 190. 

 Drink, a nourishing, SO. 



ripening of, 353. 



Drinking glass, experiment with, 102. 

 Drums, 88. 



Drunkenness, experiment touching, 882. 

 Earth, increase of weight in, 892 



burials of divers bodies in, 187. 

 Earths, medicinal, 370. 

 Echoes, 126. 



will not express certain letters, 180. 



super-reflexion of, 4iO. 



at Port Charenton, 128, 129. 

 Egg petrified, 58. 

 Eggs, yolks of, 33. 

 Egypt, scarcity of rain in, 404. 



Equinoctial, causes of temperate heat under the, 196. 

 Exercise, benefits of, 147. 

 Eyes and sight, 470. 

 Fat, method of turning flesh into, 352. 

 Feathers and hairs, production of, 58. 

 Feathers of birds, 3. 



Felum medicinale, experiment solitary touching 38. 

 Fire, and boiling water, 855. 



and time, differing operation of, 145. 

 Fires, subterrany, 179. 

 Flame, experiment touching the secret nature of, 20. 



force of, 21. 



and air, commixture of, 18. 



experiment touching the continuance of, 181. 

 Flesh, edible and not edible, 465. 

 Flies cantharides, 385. 

 Flour, potent virtue of astriction in, 35. 

 Flowers, odours of, 193. 

 Flying, experiment touching, 478. 

 Freshness, devices to procure, 410. 

 Frictions, experiments touching, 474. 

 Fruits, trees, and plants, melioration of, 209. 



and flowers, compound, 227. 



experiments touching the making them medicinable, 386. 



and plants, curiosities about, 238. 



dulcoration of, 464. 



and liquors, operations of time upon, 466. 



exossation of, 461. 

 Fuel, experiment on, 409. 



cheap, 410. 

 Germination, acceleration of, 200. 



various experiments relating to, 202, 203. 



retardation of, 206. 

 Glass, nature of, 412. 



materials of, 406. 

 Globes, appear flat afar off, 475. 

 Glow-worm, experiment touching the, 375. 

 Gold, experiment touching the making of. 158. 



experiment touching the nature of, 168. 

 Gravity, decrease of the natural motion of, 22. 



