ascribing them to secret and hidden virtues and proprieties; (for this hath arrested and laid asleep all true inquiry and indications ;) yet I do not understand but that in the practical part of knowledge, much will be left to experience and probation, whereunto indication cannot so fully reach: and this not only in specie, but in individuo. So in physic, if you will cure the jaundice, it is not enough to say that the medicine must not be cooling; for that will hinder the opening which the disease requireth: that it must not be hot; for that will exasperate choler: that it must go to the gall; for there is the obstruction which causeth the disease, &c. But you must receive from experience, that powder of Chamæpitys, or the like, drunk in beer, is good for the jaundice. So again, a wise physician doth not continue still the same medicine to a patient; but he will vary, if the first medicine doth not apparently succeed: for of those remedies that are good for the jaundice, stone, agues, &c., that will do good in one body which will not do good in another; according to the correspondence the medicine hath to the individual body.

Experiment solitary touching the general sympathy of men's spirits.

1000. The delight which men have in popularity, fame, honour, submission and subjection of other men's minds, wills, or affections, (although these things may be desired for other ends,) seemeth to be a thing in itself, without contemplation of consequence, grateful and agreeable to the nature of man. This thing (surely) is not without some signification, as if all spirits and souls of men came forth out of one divine 1 jaundies in the original. — J. S. 2 See Pliny, xxiv. 20.

limbus; else why should men be so much affected with that which others think or say? The best temper of minds desireth good name and true honour: the lighter, popularity and applause: the more depraved, subjection and tyranny; as is seen in great conquerors and troublers of the world; and yet more in arch-heretics; for the introducing of new doctrines is likewise an affectation of tyranny over the understandings and beliefs of men.

Of Veins of Earth Medicinal

Of Sea-fish in Fresh Waters

Of Attraction by Similitude of Substance

Of Certain Drinks in Turkey

Of the Glow-worm

Of the Impressions upon the Body from several Passions of

Of the Hurt or Help of Wine, taken moderately

7

7

8

9

10

10

12

13

Of Casting the Skin, and Shell, in some Creatures

23

Of the Postures of the Body

25

Of Pestilential Years

25

Of some Prognostics of Hard Winters

Of certain Medicines that Condense and Relieve the Spirits

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Of Teeth, and Hard Substances in the Bodies of Living
Creatures

Of the Generation and Bearing of Living Creatures in the
Womb

Of Species Visible

Of Impulsion and Percussion

31

36

38

40

Of Bitumen, one of the Materials of Wild-fire

51

Of Water, that it may be the Medium of Sounds

Of the Flight of the Spirits upon Odious Objects

Of the Super-reflexion of Echoes

Of the Force of Imagination imitating that of the Sense

52

53

53

54

54

55

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Of Preservation of Bodies

Of the Growth or Multiplying of Metals

58

58

Of the Drowning the more Base Metal in the more Precious

Of Fixation of Bodies

Of the Restless Nature of Things in themselves, and their
Desire to Change

61

CENTURY IX.

Of Perception in Bodies Insensible, tending to Natural Divination and Subtile Trials

63

Of Concretion and Dissolution of Bodies

Of the Corporeal Substance of Smells

Of Fetid and Fragrant Odours
Of the Causes of Putrefaction

Of Bodies unperfectly Mixed

Of Concoction and Crudity.

Of Alterations, which may be called Majors

Of Bodies Liquefiable, and not Liquefiable .
Of Bodies Fragile and Tough

Of the two Kinds of Pneumaticals in Bodies

Of Bodies Hard and Soft

Of Bodies Ductile and Tensile

Of several Passions of Matter, and Characters of Bodies

Of the Differences of Living Creatures, Male and Female

90

Of the Comparative Magnitude of Living Creatures
Of Producing Fruit without Core or Stone.

92

93