Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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262A Table of the chief Matters11
Poyſoning of air # 201
Poyſoning by ſmells, ibid. 202. Caution
# touehing poyſoning # ib.
Poyſonous Creatures love to lie under Odo-
# rate Herbs # 138
Precious ſtones comfort the ſpirits # 208
Preſervation of bodies from corruption # 28
Preſervation of Fruits in Sirrups, 129.
# Alſo in powders, ibid. when to gather
# fruits for preſervation, ibid. Alſo in
# Bottles in a well, ib. Preſerving Grapes
# long, ib. Another waythereof # 134
Prickles of Trees # 116, 117
Procreations by copulation, and by putre.
# faction, 194. The cauſe of each # ibid.
# 195
Prognoſticks for plenty or ſcarcity, 138. of
# peſtilential years, 141, 155, 172, 173.
# Of cold and long winters, 174. By Bir ds,
# 175. Of an hot and dry ſummer, ib. By
# the Birds alſo, ib. of winds, ib. Of great
# tempeſts, ib. Of rain, ib. From living
# creatures, ibid. From water fowls and
# land fowls, 176. From fiſhes, ibid. From
# beaſts, ib. From herbs, ibid. From aches
# in mens bodies, ibid. From worms, ibid.
# From the ſweating of ſolid bodies # ibid.
Proprieties ſecret # 117, 214
Purging Medicines, 5. Have their virtue
# in a fine ſpirit. Endure not boiling, ibid.
# Taking away their unpleaſant taſte, ibid.
# Several ways of the operations of purg-
# ing Medicines, 10, 11, 12. They work
# upon their proper Humors, 11. Medi-
# cines that purge by ſtool, and that purge
# by urine, 12. Their ſeveral cauſes, ibid.
# work in theſe ways as they are given in
# quantity, ib. Preparations before purg-
# ing, 18. want of preparatives, what
# hurt it doth, both in purging, ibid. and
# after purging # ibid.
Putrefaction, 73. Acceleration of it, ibid.
# The cauſe of putrefaction, ibid. Putre-
# faction, whence, 74. Ten means of in-
# ducing putrefactions, ibid. Prohibiting
# of putrefaction, 75. Ten means of pro-
# hibiting it, ibid. 76. Inceptions of pu-
# trefaction, 79. Putrefactions for the
# moſt part ſmellill, 177. The cauſe, ibid.
# Putrefaction from what cauſes it com-
# eth, 178. Putrefaction induced by the
# Moon-beams # 192
Putrefactions of living creatures, have
# cauſed Plagues # 102
Putrefied bodies moſt odious to a creature of
# the ſame kinde # ibid.
Pyrrhus had his Teeth undivided # 158
Pythagoras his Philoſophy # 197
Q
QVarries that grow hard # 183
Quick-ſilver will conſerve Bodies
# 168
Quick-ſilver fixed to the hardneſs of Lead
# 182
R.
RAcking of Wine or Beer # 68
Rain in Egyßt ſcarce, 161. The canſe
thereof, ibid. Several prognoſticks of Rain
# 175, 176
Rainbow ſaid to bring ſweetneſs of odor to
# Plants under it # 176, 177
Rams skins good to be applied to wounds
# 139
Red within ſome few fruits # 109
Red juyce in Plants # 132
Reeds # 134
Refining of Metals # 183
Refraction cauſeth the ſpecies viſible to
# appear bigger, 160. Other obſervations
# about Refractions # ibid.
Repletion hindreth Generation # 94
Reſt cauſeth Putrefaction # 75
Retardation of Germination # 92
Rew helpeth the Fig-tree # 102
Rheumes, how cauſed # 11
Rice a nouriſhing meat # 13
Right-ſide and left, 190. Senſes alike ſtrong
# on both ſides, Limbs ſtrongeſt on the
# Right, ibid. The cauſe of each # ibid.
Rooms built for health # 20
Roots of fruit trees multiplied, 93, 94.
# Root made great, 95. By applying Pani-
# cum about it, ibid. Roots potted, grow
# greater, 99, 100. Roots preſerved all
# winter, ibid. Roots of Trees that deſcend
# deep, 133, 134. Others that ſpred more,
# ibid. The cauſe of each, ibid. Roots of
# Plants of three ſorts, Bulbous, Fibrous,
# Hirſute # 128
Roſa Solis the Herb # 104
Roſes Damask how conſerved # 81
Rubarb infuſed, 4, 5. Fora ſhort time beſt,
# ibid. Repeated may be as ſtrong as Scam-
# momy, ibid. A Benedict Medicine, 5.
# caution in the taking thereof # 11
Ruſt of Metals # 74
S.
SAtiety in Meats # 66
Salamander, 186, 187. The cauſe that
# it endureth the fire # ib.
Salt a good Compoſt, 133. Salt in Plants, 132.

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