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509

510

516

518

519

520

522

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.

Of the Affinities and Differences between Plants and Bodies
Inanimate

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

Of Pilosity and Plumage

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

Of the Impressions upon the Body from several Passions of

Of the Hurt or Help of Wine, taken moderately

Of Caterpillars

· 573

Of the Flies Cantharides

573

Of Lassitude

Of Casting the Skin, and Shell, in some Creatures

Of the Postures of the Body

Of Pestilential Years

Of some Prognostics of Hard Winters

Of certain Medicines that Condense and Relieve the Spirits 576

Of Paintings of the Body

Of the Use of Bathing and Anointing

574

574

575

576

576

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

Of the Generation and Bearing of Living Creatures in the
Womb

Of Prohibition of Putrefaction, and the long Conservation of

Of Plaster growing as hard as Marble

Of the Correcting of Wines

Of Bitumen, one of the Materials of Wild-fire

Of the Cure of some Ulcers and Hurts

Of the Healthfulness or Unhealthfulness of the Southern Wind 594

Of Super-natation of Bodies

Of the Flying of Unequal Bodies in the Air -
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
Of Preservation of Bodies

Of the Growth or Multiplying of Metals

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595

595

Of the Drowning the more Base Metal in the more Precious
Of Fixation of Bodies

599

600

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

600

CENTURY IX.

Of Perception in Bodies Insensible, tending to Natural Divi

Of Bodies Ductile and Tensile

Of several Passions of Matter, and Characters of Bodies

Of Induration by Sympathy

Of Honey and Sugar

Of the Finer sort of Base Metals

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Of the Altering of Colours in Hairs and Feathers

Of the Differences of Living Creatures, Male and Female
Of the Comparative Magnitude of Living Creatures

Of Producing Fruit without Core or Stone
Of the Melioration of Tobacco

Of several Heats working the same Effects

Of Swelling and Dilatation in Boiling

Of the Dulcoration of Fruits

Of Flesh Edible and not Edible

Of the Salamander

Of the Contrary Operations of Time on Fruits and Liquors 626 Of Blows and Bruises

626

Of the Working of Water upon Air Contiguous
Of the Nature of Air

Of the Rolling and Breaking of the Seas

Of the Dulcoration of Salt Water

Of the Return of Saltness in Pits by the Sea-shore

Of Attraction by Similitude of Substance

Of Attraction

Of Heat under Earth

630

630

631

631

632

632

Of Flying in the Air

634

Of the Scarlet Dye

Of Maleficiating

Of the Rise of Liquors or Powders by Means of Flame

Of the Influences of the Moon

Of Vinegar

637

Of Creatures that Sleep all Winter

638

Of the Generating of Creatures by Copulation, and by Putrefaction

638

CENTURY X.

Of the Transmission and Influx of Immateriate Virtues, and

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645

651

Of the Emission of Spirits in Vapour, or Exhalation, Odour-
like

Of Emissions of Spiritual Species which affect the Senses
Of Emission of Immateriate Virtues, from the Minds and
Spirits of Men, by Affections, Imagination, or other Im-
pressions

Of the Secret Virtue of Sympathy and Antipathy

Of Secret Virtues and Proprieties

Of the General Sympathy of Men's Spirits

652

660

671

672

NOTE.

I have not been able to procure a copy of the first edition of the Sylva Sylvarum, which was published in 1627. Wherever therefore I speak of "the original," I must be understood to refer to the second edition, which appeared in 1628. The same remark will apply to the New Atlantis, in the next volume.-J. S.