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SYLVA SYLVARUM; OR A NATURAL
Of sympathy and antipathy......
HISTORY.
Of the spirits or pneumaticals in bodies .... 23
CENTURY I.
Of the power of heat..
23
24
Of straining or percolation, outward and in- Of impossibility of annihilation
ward ......
7
of motion upon pressure .
CENTURY II.
8
Of separations of bodies liquid by weight ..
Of music......
24
Of infusions in water and air .......
9 Of the nullity and entity of sounds .... 26
Of the appetite of continuation in liquids .. 10 Of production, conservation, and delation of
Of artificial springs........
10
sounds....
28
Of the venomous quality of man's flesh... 10 Of magnitude, exility, and damps of sounds 29
Of turning air into water
10 Of loudness and softness of sounds .... 32
32
Of helping or altering the shape of the body. 11 Of communication of sounds. .....
32
Of condensing of air, to yield weight or nour-
Of equality and inequality of sounds..
ishment.....
11 Of more treble and base tones
33
Of flame and air commixed
11 Of proportion of treble and base..
34
Of the secret nature of flame
12
34
Of exterior and interior sounds.
Of flame, in the midst, and on the sides .... 12
35
Of articulation of sounds
Of motion of gravity ....
12
Of contraction of bodies in bulk
13 CENTURY III.
Of making vines more fruitful.
13 of the lines in which sounds move ........ 36
Of the several operations of purging medicines 13 Of the lasting and perishing of sounds.... 36
Of meats and drinks most nourishing
14
Of the passage in interception of sounds 37
Of medicines applied in order
17 Of the medium of sounds
37
Of cure by custom
17
Of the figures of bodies yielding sounds.... 38
Of cure by excess ....
17 Of mixtures of sounds
38
Of cure by motion of consent.
17 Of melioration of sounds
39
Of cure of diseases contrary to predisposition 17 Of imitation of sounds.
39
Of preparation before and after purging 18 Of reflection of sounds.
40
Of stanching blood
18 Of consent and dissent between audibles and
Of change of aliments and medicines
18
visibles..
41, 42
Of diets. ...
18 Of sympathy and antipathy of sounds 43
Of production of cold ...
18 Of hindering or helping of hearing
44
Of turning air into water..
19 Of the spiritual and fine nature of sounds 44
Of induration of bodies
20 Of orient colours in dissolutions of metals.. 45
Of preying of air upon water
21 Of prolongation of life ......
45
Of the force of union.
22 Of the appetite of union in bodies .... 45
Of making feathers and hairs of divers co-
Of the like operations of heat and time..... 45
lours..
22 Of the differing operations of fire and time.. 45
Of nourishment of young creatures in the egg,
Of motions by imitation..
45
or womb.....
Of infectious diseases
46
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