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,) scemeth 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 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 archheretics; for the introducing of new doctrines is likewise an affectation of tyranny over the understandings and beliefs of

men.

1 jaundies in the original.-J. S.

2 See Pliny, xxiv. 20.

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TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS.

CENTURY I.

Page

Of Straining or Percolation, outward and inward
Of Motion upon Pressure

Of Turning Air into Water

Of Separations of Bodies liquid by weight
Of Infusions in Water and Air

Of the Appetite of Continuation in Liquids
Of Artificial Springs

Of the Venomous Quality of Man's Flesh

Of Helping or Altering the Shape of the Body

Of Condensing of Air, to yield Weight or Nourishment

Of Flame and Air Commixed

Of the Secret Nature of Flame

Of Flame, in the Midst, and on the Sides

Of Motion of Gravity

Of Contraction of Bodies in Bulk

Of Cure by Custom

Of Cure by Excess

Of Making Vines more Fruitful

Of the Several Operations of Purging Medicines

Of Meats and Drinks most Nourishing

Of Medicines applied in Order

Of Cure by Motion of Consent

Of Cure of Diseases contrary to Predisposition

Of Preparation before and after Purging

Of Stanching Blood

Of Change of Aliments and Medicines
Of Diets

Of Production of Cold

Of Turning Air into Water

Of Induration of Bodies

Of Preying of Air Water

Of the Force of Union

Of Making Feathers and Hairs of divers colours

Of Nourishment of Young Creatures in the Egg, or Womb

Of the Nullity and Entity of Sounds

Of Production, Conservation, and Delation of Sounds

Of Magnitude, Exility, and Damps of Sounds

Of Loudness and Softness of Sounds

Of Communication of Sounds

Of Equality and Inequality of Sounds
Of more Treble and Base Tones
Of Proportion of Treble and Base

Of Exterior and Interior Sounds
Of Articulation of Sounds

CENTURY III.

Of the Appetite of Union in Bodies
Of the like Operations of Heat and Time
Of the differing Operations of Fire and Time
Of Motions by Imitation

Of Infectious Diseases

Of the Incorporation of Powders and Liquors

435

437

437

Of Exercise of the Body, and the Benefits or Evils thereof
Of Meats soon Glutting, or not Glutting

CENTURY IV.

Of Clarification of Liquors, and the Accelerating thereof

Of Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof; and of the Maturation of Drinks and Fruits

Of Congealing of Air

Of Congealing of Water into Crystal

Of Preserving the Smell and Colour in Rose Leaves
Of the Lasting of Flame

Of Infusions or Burials of Divers Bodies in Earth
Of the Affects of Men's Bodies from Several Winds

Of Winter and Summer Sicknesses

Of Pestilential Years

Of Epidemical Diseases

Of Preservation of Liquors in Wells, or deep Vaults
Of Stutting

Of Sweet Smells

Of the Goodness and Choice of Waters

Of Temperate Heats under the Equinoctial

Of the Coloration of Black and Tawny Moors
Of Motion after the Instant of Death

CENTURY V.

Of Accelerating or hastening forward Germination
Of Retarding or putting back Germination

Of Meliorating, or making better, Fruits and Plants
Of Compound Fruits and Flowers

Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants

Of Making Herbs and Fruits Medicinable

CENTURY VI.

Page

442

445

Of Curiosities about Fruits and Plants
Of the Degenerating of Plants, and of their Transmutation

one into another

501

506

Of the Procerity and Lowness of Plants, and of Artificial
Dwarfing them

Of the Rudiments of Plants, and of the Excrescences of Plants, or Super-plants

Of producing Perfect Plants without Seed

Of Foreign Plants

Of the Seasons of several Plants

Of the Lasting of Plants

Of several Figures of Plants

Of some principal Differences in Plants

Of all manner of Composts and Helps for Ground

CENTURY VII.

Page

509

510

516

Of the Affinities and Differences between Plants and Bodies
Inanimate

528

Of Affinities and Differences between Plants and Living
Creatures, and of the Confiners and Participles of both
Of Plants, Experiments Promiscuous

529

531

Of Pilosity and Plumage

- 550

Of the Hiccough

Of Venus

Of the Quickness of Motion in Birds

Of the Clearness of the Sea, the North Wind blowing

Of the Different Heats of Fire and Boiling Water
Of the Qualification of Heat by Moisture

Of Yawning

Of Sneezing

Of the Tenderness of the Teeth

Of the Tongue

Of the Mouth out of Taste

Of Some Prognostics of Pestilential Seasons

Of Special Simples for Medicines

Of the Insecta, or Creatures bred of Putrefaction

Of the Pleasures and Displeasures of Hearing, and of the other
Senses

557

561

561