List of Subjects

Broad earth, left behind by the others, fills the space; it provides duration and mass to things. page 13. Certain combinations of the principles: spirit and sulfur cohere easily, as do salt and sulfur. page 14. Sulfur is pulled, as it were, between spirit and salt. page 15. Salt is most tightly united to earth. page 16. Analysis, whether natural or violent meaning chemical breakdown through heat or force, clearly demonstrates these principles of things. in the same place original: ibid.; referring to the same page.

CHAPTER III.

What fermentation is, its division according to subjects, and how it behaves in minerals. page 17.
What fermentation is: in the same place. It is seen either in natural things, which are minerals and vegetables, or in the works of art referring to human-made chemical processes or alchemy. in the same place. The movement of fermentation is more hidden in minerals. page 18. Their generation is properly called freezing or coagulation; it is compared to the making of glass original: vitrificationi. in the same place. Meteors atmospheric phenomena such as lightning, rain, and wind depend on mineral fermentation. page 19. The origin of acidic springs and hot baths. page 20.

CHAPTER IV.

On fermentation as it is observed in vegetables. page 20.
Fermentation is conspicuous in vegetables; in them, there is a various blending of the principles. page 21. How the germination of plants occurs. page 22. Their growth, maturity, and decline are weighed according to the turns of the year original: tropos; referring to the seasonal cycles of the solstices and equinoxes. pages 23, 24.

CHAPTER V.

On the observations of fermentation concerning animals. page 25.
Animals consist of fermentative principles, and they have the ferments themselves hidden in various places: namely, in the heart, in which the blood is ignited as if by fire. page 26. In the stomach, by whose help the chyle a milky fluid produced during digestion is prepared. in the same place. In the brain. page 27. In the seminal vessels. page 29. In the spleen. page 30. In the gall bladder. page 31. Diseases and their cures depend on ferments. in the same place. The entire world is full of fermentative particles. page 32.