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Of the nature of appetite in the stomach,
Of the sweetness of odour from the rainbow,
Of sweet smells,
Of concoction and crudity,
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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 concretion and dissolution of bodies,
Of bodies hard and soft,
Of ductile and tensile,
Of several passions of matter, and characters of bo-
Of the finer sort of base metals,
Of certain cements and quarries,
Of the altering of colours in hairs and feathers,
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Of the difference of living creatures, male and female,
Of the comparative magnitude of living creatures, 23
Of producing fruit without core or stone,
Of the melioration of tobacco,
Of swelling and dilatation in boiling,
Of the dulcoration of fruits,
Of flesh edible and not edible,
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Of the salamander,
VOL. II.
Of the contrary operations of time on fruits and liquors,
Of the eyes and sight,
Of the colour of the sea, or other water,
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Of shell-fish,
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Of the return of saltness in pits upon the sea-shore,
Of maleficiating,
Of the rise of water by the means of flame,
Of vinegar,
Of the influences of the moon,
Of creatures that sleep all winter,
Of the generations of creatures by copulation, and by
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putrefaction,
CENTURY X.
Of the transmission and influx of immateriate virtues,
and the force of imagination,
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Of the emission of spirits in vapour, or exhalation,
odour-like,
Of emission of spiritual species which affect the
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Of emissions of immateriate virtues, from the minds and
spirits of men, by affections, imagination, or other
impressions,
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Of the secret virtue of sympathy and antipathy,
Of secret virtues and proprieties,
Of the general sympathy of men's spirits,
New Atlantis,
Mr. Bacon in praise of knowledge,
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Valerius Terminus of the interpretation of nature: a
few fragments of the first book,
Filum Labyrinthi, sive Formula inquisitionis,
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Sequela chartarum, sive inquisitio legitima de Calore
et Frigore,
PHYSIOLOGICAL REMAINS.
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Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals, 187
Questions touching minerals, with Dr. Merevel's solu-
tions,
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Of the compounding, incorporating, or union of metals
or minerals,
Compound metals now in use,
Of the separation of metals and minerals,
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Of the variation of metals into several shapes, bodies, or
natures,
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Of the restitution of metals and minerals,
Inquisition concerning the versions, transmutations,
multiplications, and affections of bodies,
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A speech concerning the recovering of drowned mineral
works,
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Experiments about weight in air and water,
Certain sudden thoughts of the lord Bacon, set down by
him under the title of Experiments for Profit, 212
Experiments about the commixture of liquors only, not
solids, without heat or agitation, but only by single
composition and settling,
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A catalogue of bodies, attractive and not attractive, to-
gether with experimental observations about attrac-
Wine for the spirits,
The preparing of saffron,
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Wine against adverse melancholy, preserving the senses
and the reason,
Breakfast preservative against the gout and rheums,
The preparation of garlick,
The artificial preparation of damask roses for smell,
A restorative drink,
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Against the waste of the body by heat,
Methusalem water: Against all asperity and torrefac-
tion of inward parts, and all adustion of the blood,
and generally against the dryness of age,
A catalogue of astringents, openers, and cordials, 220
An extract by the lord Bacon, for his own use, out of
the book of the prolongation of life, together with
some new advices in order to health,
MEDICAL RECEIPTS.
His lordship's usual receipt for the gout,
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His lordship's broth and fomentation for the stone, 226
A manus Christi for the stomach,
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A secret for the stomach,
WORKS MORAL.
A Fragment of the colours of good and evil,
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28 of expense,
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29 Of the true greatness of kingdoms and estates, 322