PREFACE 



PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL EEIAINS. 



THE following pieces were first published by Teni- 

 son in 1679, in a single volume entitled " Baconiana, 

 or certain genuine Remains of Sir Francis Bacon 

 Baron of Verulam and Viscount of St. Alban's ; in 

 arguments Civil, Moral, Natural, Medical, Theologi- 

 cal, and Bibliographical ; now for the first time faith- 

 fully published ; " with an introduction professing to 

 give " an account of all the Lord Bacon's works." 



Tenison was intimate at college with William Raw- 

 ley the Doctor's son, and afterwards with John Raw- 

 ley his executor. Through them he had access to the 

 Bacon manuscripts which had been left in the Doctor's 

 hands, and may therefore be considered as an original 

 authority in the matter. He was not a man of much 

 sagacity or intellectual vigour ; and there is reason to 

 believe that he sometimes took leave to alter the text a 

 little, when it contained expressions which he thought 

 undignified. But he was a great venerator of Bacon, 

 and upon the whole a careful, conscientious, and scholar- 

 like editor. He assures us that he has printed nothing 

 as Bacon's which he did not find either written in his 

 own hand or transcribed by Dr. Rawley ; and though 



