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CONTENTS.
| Of the incorporation of powders and liquors | 47 | ||
| Of exercise of the body, and the benefits or evils thereof | 46 | ||
| Of meats soon glutting, or not glutting | 46 | ||
| Century IV. | |||
| Of clarification of liquors and the acceleration thereof | 47 | ||
| Of maturation, and the accelerating thereof: and of the maturation of drinks and fruits | 48 | ||
| Of making gold | 49 | ||
| Of the several natures of gold | 50 | ||
| Of inducing and accelerating putrefaction | 50 | ||
| Of prohibiting and preventing putrefaction | 51 | ||
| Of rotten wood shining | 52 | ||
| Of acceleration of birth | 53 | ||
| Of acceleration of growth and stature | 53 | ||
| Of bodies sulphureous and mercurial | 53 | ||
| Of the chameleon | 54 | ||
| Of suhterrany fires | 54 | ||
| Of nitrous water | 54 | ||
| Of congealing of air | 54 | ||
| Of congealing of water into crystal | 54 | ||
| Of preserving the smell and colour in rose leaves | 55 | ||
| Of the lasting of flame | 55 | ||
| Of infusions or burials of divers bodies in earth | 56 | ||
| Of the effects on men's bodies from several winds | 57 | ||
| Of winter and summer sicknesses | 57 | ||
| Of pestilential years | 57 | ||
| Of epidemical diseases | 57 | ||
| Of preservation of liquors in wells, or deep vaults | 57 | ||
| Of slutting | 57 | ||
| Of sweet smells | 58 | ||
| Of the goodness and choice of waters | 58 | ||
| Of temperate heats under the equinoctial | 59 | ||
| Of the coloration of black and tawny Moors | 59 | ||
| Of motion after the instant of death | 59 | ||
| Century V. | |||
| Of accelerating or hastening forward germination | 60 | ||
| Of retarding or putting back germination | 61 | ||
| Of meliorating, or making better, fruits and plants | 62 | ||
| Of compound fruits and flowers | 66 | ||
| Of sympathy and antipathy of plants | 67 | ||
| Of making herbs and fruits medicinal | 69 | ||
| Century VI. | |||
| Of curiosities about fruits and plants | 70 | ||
| Of the degenerating of plants, and of their transmutation one into another | 72 | ||
| Of the procevity and lowness of plants, and of artificial dwarfing them | 73 | ||
| Of the rudiments of plants, and of the excrescences of plants, or super-plants | 74 | ||
| Of producing perfect plants without seed | 76 | ||
| Of foreign plants | 77 | ||
| Of the seasons of several plants | 77 | ||
| Of the lasting of plants | 78 | ||
| Of several figures of plants | 78 | ||
| Of some principal differences in plants | 79 | ||
| Of all manner of composts and helps for ground | 79 | ||
| Century VII. | |||
| Of the affinities and differences between plants and bodies inanimate | 81 | ||
| Of affinities and differences between plants and living creatures, and of the confiners
and participles of both |
81 | ||
| Of plants, experiments promiscuous | 82 | ||
| Of the healing of wounds | 89 | ||
| Of fat diffused in flesh | 89 | ||
| Of ripening drink speedily | 89 | ||
| Of pilosity and plumage | 89 | ||
| Of the quickness of motion in birds | 90 | ||
| Of the clearness of the sea, the north wind blowing | 90 | ||
| Of the different heats of fire and boiling water | 90 | ||
| Of the qualifications of heat by moisture | 90 | ||
| Of yawning | 90 | ||
| Of the hiccough | 90 | ||
| Of sneezing | 90 | ||
| Of the tenderness of the teeth | 91 | ||
| Of the tongue | 91 | ||
| Of the mouth out of taste | 91 | ||
| Of some prognostics of pestilential seasons | 91 | ||
| Of special simples for medicines | 91 | ||
| Of Venus | 91 | ||
| Of the insects, or creatures bred of putrefaction | 92 | ||
| Of leaping | 93 | ||
| Of the pleasures and displeasures of hearing, and of the other senses | 93 | ||
| Century VIII. | |||
| Of veins of earth medicinal | 94 | ||
| Of sponges | 91 | ||
| Of sea-fish in fresh waters | 91 | ||
| Of attraction by similitude of substance | 94 | ||
| Of certain drinks in Turkey | 94 | ||
| Of sweat | 95 | ||
