CENTURY I. Of Straining or Percolation, outward and inward Of Separations of Bodies liquid by weight Of Infusions in Water and Air Of the Appetite of Continuation in Liquids 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 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 Making Feathers and Hairs of divers colours Page 378 Of Nourishment of Young Creatures in the Egg, or Womb 379 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 Exterior and Interior Sounds Of Articulation of Sounds CENTURY III. Of the Lines in which Sounds move - 414 Of Hindering or Helping of Hearing Of Orient Colours in Dissolutions of Metals Of the differing Operations of Fire and Time Of Reflexion of Sounds Of Consent and Dissent between Visibles and Audibles Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Sounds Of the Spiritual and Fine Nature of Sounds Of Prolongation of Life Of the Appetite of Union in Bodies Of the like Operations of Heat and Time Of Motions by Imitation Of Infectious Diseases Of the Incorporation of Powders and Liquors 425 Of Exercise of the Body, and the Benefits or Evils thereof CENTURY IV. Of Clarification of Liquors, and the Accelerating thereof Of Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof; and of the Ma 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 Pestilential Years Of Epidemical Diseases Of Preservation of Liquors in Wells, or deep Vaults Of Sweet Smells Of the Goodness and Choice of Waters Of Temperate Heats under the Equinoctial Of the Coloration of Black and Tawny Moors CENTURY V. Of Accelerating or hastening forward Germination Of Meliorating, or making better, Fruits and Plants Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants X 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 Of the Procerity and Lowness of Plants, and of Artificial Of the Rudiments of Plants, and of the Excrescences of Plants, or Super-plants Page 509 510 Of the Affinities and Differences between Plants and Bodies 528 Of Affinities and Differences between Plants and Living 529 531 Of the Clearness of the Sea, the North Wind blowing 551 Of the Pleasures and Displeasures of Hearing, and of the other 561 Of the Impressions upon the Body from several Passions of the Mind 567 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 Of Teeth, and Hard Substances in the Bodies of Living 580 Of the Generation and Bearing of Living Creatures in the Of Prohibition of Putrefaction, and the long Conservation of |