THE

WORKS

OF

FRANCIS BACON,

Lord Chancellor of England.

WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR

BY

BASIL MONTAGU, ESQUIRE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

PARRY & MCMILLAN,

SUCCESSORS TO A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART.

1859.

Lybe
Oct.1859
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1994.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

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Of helping or altering the shape of the body. 11

Of condensing of air, to yield weight or nour-

ishment.....

Of the venomous quality of man's flesh.....

Of turning air into water......

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 cure by exce

xcess

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13 CENTURY III.

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Of making vines more fruitful....

Of the several operations of purging medicines

Of meats and drinks most nourishing ...... 14

Of medicines applied in order.

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Of cure by custom

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Of cure by motion of consent......

Of cure of diseases contrary to predisposition

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Of production of cold.....

Of turning air into water..

Of induration of bodies

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Of preparation before and after purging....

Of stanching blood .......

Of change of aliments and medicines.

Of diets. ....

Of preying of air upon water

Of the force of union...

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Of sympathy and antipathy....

Of the spirits or pneumaticals in bodies.... 23

Of the power of heat.......

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Of impossibility of annihilation

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CENTURY II.

Of music.....

Of the nullity and entity of sounds...

Of production, conservation, and delation of

sounds......

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Of magnitude, exility, and damps of sounds 29

Of loudness and softness of sounds

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Of communication of sounds.....

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Of equality and inequality of sounds..

Of more treble and base tones

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Of proportion of treble and base..

Of exterior and interior sounds....

Of articulation of sounds

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Of the lines in which sounds move........

Of the lasting and perishing of sounds.....

Of the passage in interception of sounds...

Of the medium of sounds

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Of the figures of bodies yielding sounds....

Of mixtures of sounds.

Of melioration of sounds.

Of imitation of sounds.

Of reflection of sounds.

Of consent and dissent between audibles and

visibles.......

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Of sympathy and antipathy of sounds

Of hindering or helping of hearing .....

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Of the spiritual and fine nature of sounds.. 41

Of orient colours in dissolutions of metals.. 45

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Of the like operations of heat and time..... 45

Of prolongation of life .......

Of the appetite of union in bodies......

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