The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV

H. G. Bohn, 1852

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PAGE	v

PREFACE PAGE	ix

SUPPLEMENTARY MEMOIR BY THE EDITOR	xxxvii

MRS LYTTLETONS COMMUNICATION TO BISHOP KENNET	lxviii

The Author to the Reader	1

THE FIRST BOOK containing the general part	7

Of the second cause of common errors the erroneous	16

Of the more immediate causes of common errors both	26

Of the amphisbæna	294

That young vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam	297

That hares are both male and female	305

That moles are blind	312

That lampreys have many eyes	316

That snails have no eyes	318

That the chameleon lives only upon air	321

That the ostrich digesteth iron	334

viz credulity	33

Of authors who have most promoted popular conceit	59

Of others indirectly effecting the same	72

A further illustration of the same	86

THE SECOND BOOK beginning the particular part Of popular	94

Concerning the loadstone of things particularly spoken	112

Concerning the loadstone a rejection of sundry common	133

Of bodies electrical	157

Compendiously of sundry other common tenets concern	166

Of sundry tenets concerning vegetables or plants which	192

Of some insects and the properties of several plants	210

THE THIRD BOOK the particular part continued Of popular	219

That the horse hath no gall	232

a Chap 4 That a beaver to escape the hunter bites off his testicles	240

That a bear brings forth her cubs informous or unshaped	247

That a wolf first seeing a man begets a dumbness in him	261

That a kingfisher hanged by the bill showeth where	270

Of the phenix	276

That a salamander lives in the fire	284

Of the unicorns horn	337

That all animals of the land are in their kind in the sea	344

Concerning the common course of our diet in making choice of some animals and abstaining from eating others	346

Of the spermaceti whale	353

that storks will only live in republicks and free states of the noise of a bittern by putting the bill in a reed that whelps are blind nine days of the anti...	357

That the chicken is made out of the yolk of the egg that snakes sting of the tarantula the lamb of Tartary the swiftness of tigers with sundry queries	373

THE FOURTH BOOK the particular part continued Of many popu lar and received tenets concerning man Chap 1 That only man hath an erect figure	379

That the heart is on the left side	383

That pleurisies are only on the left side	385

Of the right and left hand	391

On swimming and floating	402

That men weigh heavier dead than alive and before meat than after	405

That there are several passages for meat and drink	408

On saluting upon sneezing	410

That Jews stink	413

Of pigmies	421

Of the great climacterical year that is sixtythree	425

Of the canicular or dogdays	446

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Title	The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV Bohn's antiquarian library Volume 1 of The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Thomas Browne
Author	Sir Thomas Browne
Editor	Simon Wilkin
Contributor	Woodward's Gardens (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher	H. G. Bohn, 1852
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	22 May 2007

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