Browne, Edward, eldest son of Sir Thos.
i. xxv. xlix.; his journal, iii. 398; let-
ters from, 425, 427, 429, 438, 439, 480;
his papers in the Philosophical Transac-
tions, 441, n.

Browne, Thomas, father of Sir Thomas, i.
ix. lxviii. n.

Browne, Thomas, younger son of Sir Thos.
i. xlix.; his letters, iii. 419, 420
Browne, Thomas, grandson of Sir Thomas
Browne, i. lxvi.

Browne family, other members of, i. xxv.
liii. lxi. lxvi.

Browne, John, relates a story of Sir Thos.
Browne, in his Adenochoiradelogia, i.
Ixii. n.

Brutus wisely interprets an oracle, i. 29
Bubbles, remarks on, iii. 380

Bullets, said to melt or become red-hot in
their flight, i. 181; how explained, ib. n.
Burning, or cremation, very ancient, iii. 8;
various examples, ib.; when disused, 17
Burton, Dr. of Philadelphia, on the stupi-
fying power of several of the serpent
tribe, i. 255, n.

Bury St. Edmund's, trial of witches, i. liv.
Bush, good wine needs none, ii. 418 and n.
Butterfly, head of the canker becomes tail

of the butterfly, ii. 537; an erroneous
assertion, ib. n.

CABBALA, ii. 336, n.

Cabeus, his experiment on congelation, i.
107; his theory of electricity, 160
Cæsar's religion, what, ii. 389 and n.
Cain, whether he intended to slay his bro-
ther, i. 10

Caitiff, how explained, ii. 420, n.
Calendar, proposed plan for an historical,
iii. 3

Camel, osteology of the, ii. 537, n.

Camphor, absurd fable respecting, i. 213
Candles, burning dim or blue at the ap-
proach of a spirit, ii. 95
Canicular. See Dog-days

Carbuncle, said to flame in the dark, i. 188;
since fully proved, ib. n.

Cardanus, Hieronymus, too greedy a re-
ceiver of assertions, and therefore to be
read suspiciously, i. 70; Mr. Crossley's
account of, ib. n.

Cartes, René des, theory of electricity, i. 160
Castor and Helena, fable of, explained, i. 48
Cat's brains, destructive properties ascribed
to, i. 378

Cato Major, his three regrets, ii. 416, n.
Cedar of Lebanon, what, iii. 188; Burck-
hardt's description, 189, n.

Centaurs, origin of the fable, i. 26; similar
incident related, ib. n.
Cerumen, account of, iii. 450
Chameleon, opinion that he lives on air,
i. 321; its fabulous change of colour,321 n.

147, n.

Changelings, what, ii. 366, and n.

Charity, due to all, even Turks, infidels,
and Jews, ii. 318; should make us slow
to doubt the salvation of those who differ
from us, 414

Charles I. his murder to be expiated yearly,
iii. 400; tried the Sortes Virgilianæ, ii.
97, n.; said by Evelyn to be like one
Osburn, a hedger, iii. 272, n.

Charles II. knighted Browne, i. lviii.
Charms, amulets, &c. of Satanic origin,
i. 86

Charon, fable of, explained, i. 47; further
explanation, ib. n.

Cheek-burning, ominous, ii. 82
Cherubim, opinions on, ii. 69, n.
Chicken. See Egg

Child's caul, why prized, ii. 87
Childerick I. his monument found at
Tournay, treasures in it, iii. 24
Chinese language, iii. 225

Chiromancy, author's disposition to, ii.

419, n.

Church of England, Browne a sworn sub-
ject to her faith, ii. 322

Cicada, what? ii. 9, iii. 213; its French,

Italian, Spanish, and Saxon names, ib.
Cicero, M. T. begins Pro Archia with a
hexameter, ii. 440; not the author of
that oration, ib. n.

Cinnamon, ginger, clove, mace, and nut-
meg, said to be the produce of the same
tree; disproved, i. 199 and n.

Circles, number of, in the heavens, i. 429, n.
Clarke, Dr. Adam, on the temptation of
Eve, ii. 12, n.

Clavicles, monkeys have, iii. 400

Clay, used for coffins as well as urns, iii. 22
Cleopatra, picture of her death, ii. 39
Climacterical year, the great, i. 425; the
calendar, old and new style, 441; Wren's
calculations on the calendar, 444

Clocks, when invented, ii. 57
Clouds, remotest distance of, i. 178
Cloven hoof attributed to the devil, ii. 90
Coaches, in London and in Mexico, how
many, iii. 470; in Elizabeth's time, ib.
Coagulation, remarks on, iii. 366
Cock, the lion afraid of, i. 365
Cock's eggs, curious account of, i. 258
Colebrooke, Mr. on quinary arrangements,
ii. 527, n.

Coleridge, S. T. remarks on Quincunx,
ii. 492; on the concluding passage of
Garden of Cyrus, 563, n.

Cologne, the three kings of, ii. 232; royal
offerings at St. James's still continued,
233, n.

Comets, opinions respecting, ii. 209
Common-place books, extracts from, iii.
349

Compass, mariner's, i. 128; variation of
the ii. 62, n.

Congelation, remarks on, iii. 373
Conring, Herman, opinion of Religio
Medici and its author, ii. 301
Conscience, its conflicts with our passions,

ii. 433

Constans, his dream, ii. 98, n.
Cookworthy, Mr. Wm. of Plymouth, on the
divining, or mining rod, ii. 96
Copernican system of astronomy, Browne's
opinions respecting, i. 35; opposed by
Dean Wren, ib. n.

Coral, whether soft under water, i. 183;
its description, 185, n.; why worn by
children, ii. 95

Corn, ears of, plucked, iii. 165
Coronary plants. See Garlands

Cotton, Sir Robert, a griffin's claw in his
library, i. lxxx.

Council of the bean, what, i. 27
Coverly, Sir Roger de, Browne compared to,
i. xxxvii. n.

Crassus, that he never laughed but once,
ii. 260
Creation,

a mystery, especially that of
man, ii. 375; opinions of Plato and Aris-
totle thereon, ib.

Credulity and supinity, causes of error,
i. 33

Cremation. See Burning

Crete, labyrinth of, ii. 511; the island said
to be free from venomous creatures,
i. 273

Crevise, or crayfish, stones on the head of,

ii. 468

Crocodile, supposed never to cease growing,
ii. 258; truth of this, ib. n.
Crœsus. See Delphos

Crux ansata, what, ii. 501 and n.
Crystal, wrongly supposed to be nothing
but ice strongly congealed, i. 94; the
author's notions of its chemical nature
wrong, 105

Ctesias, accused of having said in his
Indian History what he had neither seen
nor heard, i, 61; an examination of the
charge, ib. n.; examination of his
authority on Persian affairs, 62, n.;
Strabo's censure upon him, 63, n.; his
story of a horse pismire, 169, n.; ori-
ginated the fable that an elephant has no
joints, 219, n. 221. n.

Cucumbers of Egypt, iii. 159, n.
Cummin seed, iii. 163

Curiosity, too nice, censure of, iii. 307
Cuvier, Règne Animal, quoted to show
that elephants' tusks are teeth, i.
228, n.; his account of the bear, 249, n;
his reflections on those creatures which
as connecting links between
different tribes, 273, n.; interesting
account of the rattlesnake, 299; his re-
marks on the supposed social feelings of
the dolphin, ii. 5, n.

serve

Cymbals, tinkling, an inappropriate term,
iii. 219

DEDALUS, the fable of, explained, i. 47.
Dalton, Dr. On the Effects of Atmospheric
Pressure on the Human Frame, i. 406, n.
Damps in coal-mines, safety-lamp invented
as a security against, i. 328, n.
Dandolo, Doge of Venice, conducts the
siege of Zara in defiance of the Roman
pontiff, ii. 324, n.

Daniel destroying the dragon, i. 169;

Dean Wren's comment upon, ib. n.;
in the fiery furnace, various representa-
tions of, ii. 78

Darnel, what, iii. 201
Davenport, Christopher, alias Francis de
Sta. Clara, notice of his life and works,
ii. 302

David, why he was punished for numbering
the people, ii. 241; whether the same as
Orpheus, i. 46

Davy, Sir Humphrey, his invention of
the safety-lamp, i. 329, n.; his argu
ments against the existence of mermaids,
ii. 59, n.; mistaken for one himself, 60, n.
Days, computation of, ii. 127

Days of the week, their names, whence de-
rived, ii. 99

Dead, burning of the, iii. 8
Dead Sea, iii. 250

Death, contemplations on the fear of, ii.
381; Dr. Drake's remarks on the pas-
sage, 382, n.

Death-watch, an evil omen, i. 210; what
it is, ib. n.

Dee, Arthur, M.D. son of Dr. John Dee,
account of, iii. 530

Dee, John, D.C.L. notice of, iii. 516
Deepham, lime-tree at, i. xlvii.
Deer, its longevity, i. 262; a passage from

Hesiod, 266; notes on the reproduction
of lost limbs, and new inarching of noses,
269, n.

Delphos, answers of the oracle of Apollo,

at, iii. 250

Demosthenes, whether the son of a black-
smith, ii. 267

Devil, the, generally supposed to have a
cloven foot, ii. 90; why, ib. and n.; of
Delphos, i. 24

Devonshire, Duke of, his picture of
Browne's family, i. lxviii.

Diamond, said by ancient writers to be
broke by the blood of goats, examination
of the fable, i. 166

Diet, our various choice of, i. 346; various
ancient Jewish and national dishes, 350;
a tale told, 352

Digby, Sir Kenelm, his story about the
powder of sympathy, i. 153; his cor-
respondence with the author, ii. 311;

453

Diomed, fable of his horses, i. 46
Dioscorides, to be read by medical stu-
dents, iii. 483; but not received im-
plicitly, i. 65

Diuturnity, reflections upon the desire of,
natural to man, iii. 45

Divining, by rod, ii. 96; by book, 97; by
staff, 98

Divinity, the author's, collected from two
books, the Bible and Nature, ii. 341
Dodder, quincuncial arrangement of the
rural charm against, ii. 509
Dodo, seen by L'Estrange, i. lxxx.
Dog-days, their fabled influence in medi-
cine, i. 446

Dog-star. See Dog-days
Dogs, edible, ii. 190

Dolphin, the, picture of, ii. 4; Cuvier's
account of its alleged affection to man,
5, n.; used as a device by some learned
printers, 6, n.

Dorset, Thomas, Marquis of, his body
found uncorrupted after 78 years' inter-
ment, iii. 31, n.

Dort, Synod of, not in all points right, ii.

323

Drabitius, his prophecies and fate, iii. 399
Dread, explanation of the term, iii. 241
Dreams, reflections on, iii. 342
Druids, their sepulture, iii. 19
Drunkenness, monthly, why recommended,
and with what medical and moral pro-
priety, ii. 88; Wren's remarks on, ib. n. ;
Bp. Hall's excellent observation, 89, n.
Dugdale, Wm. of Blyth Hall, letters of,
iii. 493, 496, 498, 501

Dutton, Sir Thomas, married Browne's
mother, i. x.; supposed by Birch to be
the same person mentioned in his Life
of Prince Henry, as having killed Sir
Hatton Cheke in a duel, xxxix.; Browne's
verses on that occasion, ib.
Dyers, their art, ii. 203

EAGLESTONE, i. 189

Ear, tingling of it, ominous, ii. 82; Wren
accounts for it, ib. n.

Ear of rye, fatal effect of swallowing an,
i. 168, n.

Earth, Lactantius's opinion of its figure,
i. 54; a magnetical body, 112; in what
senses it is not so, ib. n. ; in what senses
it is so, 114

Earthquake, absurd account of the cause
and nature of, i. 33; Lemery's experi-
ment respecting, 179, n.

East and west, proprieties thereof, ii. 153;
learning and arts from the east, 161
Echoes said to speak with a mouth, i. 231;
correction of this, ib. n.

Eclipse, in 1681-2, lunar, total, observa-
tions on, iii. 478

Eclipses superstitiously regarded, i. 87

26

Eels, account of some, by Dean Wren,
i. 281, n.

Effluxions, doctrine of, i. 114; note re-
specting it, ib. n.

Egg, whether the chicken proceeds from
the yolk, i. 373; Harvey's great prin-
ciple, omnia ex ovo, confirmed by modern
investigation, 374, n.; the Egyptian
and Babylonian methods of hatching
eggs compared, ib.; some odd queries
briefly disposed of, 375; unlucky not to
break its shell, ii. 81

Egypt, onions and garlic of, iii. 159;
plagues of, 183

Egyptian animal worship, i. 21
Egyptian hieroglyphics, have been the
means of advancing popular conceits,
i. 74, 75

Egyptian mummies become merchandise,
iii. 46

Egyptian papyrus, iii. 199
Egyptian sepulture, iii. 10

Elder-berries falsely supposed poisonous,
i. 217

Electrical bodies, concerning them, i. 157;
correction of the author's assertion,
159, n.

Electricity, the philosophy of its operation,
various explanations of, i. 163, n.
Elephant, popular errors respecting, i. 219;
modern prevalence of these fables, 225, n.
Elias the rabbin, his prophecy, ii. 392
Elve-locks. See Hair

Emeu, or cassowary, Charles I. had one,
iii. 469

Enoch's pillars, ii. 356
Entozoa, parasitic worms, ii. 524
Epicurus, his character and doctrines, ii. 275
Epimenides, his proverb respecting the
Cretans, ii. 425

Epitaphs, vanity of, iii. 47
Equivocations in words and phrases-the
source of delusion and error, i. 26
Erasmus, his absurd story of a toad, i.
364, n.

Escaliot, M. letter from, iii. 518
Ethiopians, their diet, ii. 414, n.
Etymology run mad, i. 194

Eusebius on the cessation of oracles, ii.
244; his account of a wonderful plant near
the statue of Christ, 283
Evangelists, emblems of the four, ii. 34, n.
Eve, from which side of Adam was she
framed, ii. 350; manner of her original
temptation, i. 8; was her sin or Adam's
the greater? 10; picture of the serpent
tempting her, ii. 9; picture of, with a
navel, 14

Evelyn, John, his intercourse with Sir
Thomas Browne, i. lix. ; letter from, iii.

488

Evening Hymn, an, ii. 446

Extracts from Common-place books, iii. 349

bertus, i. 58

FABII, story of the, ii. 278

Fables of antiquity, i. 44; used for moral
and religious illustration, may indirectly
promote error, 72

Fabritius Paduanius, on the climacterical
year, i. 438

Fairies, Paracelsus's receipt for making,
ii. 376

Fairystones, popularly commended for the
stone, i. 190; their true nature, ib. n.
Faith and reason at variance, ii. 346
Falconry. See Hawks

Fall. See Man; Temptation
Fallacy, Bentham's work on, i. lxxiii.
Fallacy and misapprehension great cause
of error, i. 26; various forms of, with
examples, ib.

Feasts, posture at, among the Jews and
Eastern nations, ii. 17

Fens of Lincoln and Norfolk, Dugdale on,
iii. 499

Ferrum equinum, absurd story concerning
it, i. 207

Field, a green, 'described as appearing
at the bottom of the Red Sea, explana-
tion of it, iii. 172

Fiery furnace, pictures of the, ii. 77
Fig-tree cursed by our Lord, explanation

of the narrative, iii. 191; brief solution
of the difficulty, 192, n.; remarks on,
387

Fig-leaves, iii. 159

Fioravanti Leonardo says that pellitory
never grows in sight of the north star, i.

499

Fire-damp, experiments on, i. 329, n.
First cause, or final cause, on, ii. 339
Fishes, their scales quincuncial, ii. 529;
did not escape the deluge, iii. 8; tract
on those eaten by our Saviour with his
disciples, 208.

Fitches, what, iii. 163

Five, mystical notions respecting, ii. 506
Flax, how smitten, when the wheat and
rye escaped, iii. 192

Flies, &c. in amber, i. 164, n.; in oak
apples, see Oak

Flint, why it strikes fire, i. 104, n.
Flood, of Noah and Deucalion, i. 352; list
of writers on, 353; whether the world
was slenderly peopled before the, ii. 136;
no rainbow before the, an absurd fancy,
219

Flos Africanus, said to poison dogs, i. 217;
several sorts of it, ib. n.
Flowers, fruits, and seeds, in which the
number five obtains, ii. 513

Fluctus decumanus. See Wave
Forbidden fruit, an apple, ii. 210

Fovargue, Rev. S. relates an incident re-
specting a bittern, i. 362, n.
Frankincense, iii. 157, n.

Freezing, of eggs, gall, blood, and marrow,
iii. 466

Friendship, its wonders, ii. 431

Frogs, toads, and toadstone, various parti-
culars concerning, i. 284; frog spawn
said to be of medical use, 289; of tad-
poles, 290; Dean Wren's observations
thereon, ib. n.

Fruits of the fourth year, iii. 189

Funeral rites, great variety of, iii. 34, 37;
urns, 7, 53

Fungus, account of various kinds of, iii.

503

GADBURY, John, his astrology charged with
treason, iii. 462

Galbanum, iii. 158, n.

Galen and Hippocrates, the fathers of me.
dicine, iii. 483; Galen's conscientious si-
lence as to poisons, ii. 289

Galileo, his system of the universe, ii. 250
Gall, said to be wanting in the horse and
pigeon, i. 232, 234; Wren's opinion as
to its office, 239, n.

Ganganelli, Pope, said to be poisoned, ii.
287, n.

Gardens, reference to several articles on,
ii. 563, n.; Evelyn's chapter on, iii. 490
Garlands and Coronary or Garland Plants,
iii. 203

Garlic, said to destroy the power of the
loadstone, i. 136; of Egypt, iii. 159
Gellius, Aulus, notes books with odd titles,
ii. 308

Gems, how many truly so called, i. 192, n.
Generation, equivocal, believed by Browne,
i. 196; Harvey's maxim destructive of
the system, ib. n.; curious note respect-
ing, 378, n.; of the phoenix, 281; of
some fishes, ib. n.

Genesis. meaning of the first chapter, ii.
353; Jews not allowed to read it till thirty
years old, ib. n.

Geographers, some elder ones have inae-
curately described the forms of several
countries, ii. 207

Geography of religion, ii. 318 and n.
George David, of Leyden, deemed the
Messias, i. 23, n.

Gerard, John, gardener to Lord Burleigh,
his Herbal referred to, iii. 456
Germany, the three great inventions of, ii.
357; what, ib. n.; the maid of, 367
Germination, examination of the process
of, ii. 517; of seeds in water and oil,
546, n.

Geryon and Cerberus, fable of, explained,
i. 46

Gestation, human, period of, i. 55, n.
Ghosts and apparitions, opinions respect-
ing, ii. 397