Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents

A Table of the Contents.

That Porcellane or China dishes lie under the earth an hundred years in preparation. chap. 5.
That a carbuncle gives a light in the dark; Of the Eglestone: Of Fayrie stones, with some others. ibid.

Of sundry Tenents concerning Vegetables.
That the root of Mandrakes resembleth the shape of a man.
That they naturally grow under Gallows and places of execution.
That the root gives a shreek upon eradication.
That it is fatall or dangerous to dig them up.
That Cinamon, Ginger, Cloves, Mace, are but the parts or fruits of the same tree.
That Misseltoe is bred upon trees, from seeds which birds let fall thereon.
Of the Rose of Ierico original: "Rose of Jericho" that flowreth every year upon Christmas Eve.
That Sferra Cavallo original: "Sferra Cavallo" iron-breaker hath a power to break or loosen Iron.
That Bayes preserve from the mischief of Lightning and Thunder. chap. 6.
That bitter Almonds are preservatives against Ebriety.
Of the presage of the year from the insects in oak Apples.
Of the feed of some plants.
Of the running of the sap to the root.
That Camphire causeth impotency unto venery; with many others. chap. 7.

THE THIRD BOOK.
Of popular and received Tenents concerning Animals.

That an Elephant hath no joints. Chapter 1.
That an horse hath no Gall. chap. 2.
That a Pigeon hath no Gall. chap. 3.
That a Bever, to escape the hunter, bites off his testicles or stones. chap. 4.
That a Badger hath the legs of one side shorter then of the other. chap. 5.
That a Bear brings forth her cubs informous or unshaped. chap. 6.
Of the Basilisk. chap. 7.
That a Woolf first seeing a man, begets a dumbness in him. chap. 8.
Of the long life of Deer. chap. 9.
That a Kingsfisher hanged by the bill, sheweth where the wind is. chap. 10.
Of Gryphins. chap. 11.
Of the Phenix. chap. 12.
Of the pising of Toads, of the stone in their head, and of the generation of Frogs. c. 13.
That a Salamander lives in the fire. chap. 14.
Of the Amphisbena, or Serpent with two heads moving either way. chap. 15.
That young Vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam. chap. 16.
That Hares are both male and female. chap. 17.
That Moles are blind and have no eyes. chap. 18.
That Lampries have many eyes. chap. 19.
That Snayls have two eyes, and at the ends of their horns. chap. 20.
That the Chamelion lives only by ayr. chap. 21.
That the Ostridge digesteth Iron. chap. 22.
Of the Unicorns horn. chap. 23.
That all Animals in the Land are in their kind in the Sea. chap. 24.

Compendiously of some others.
Of the musicall note of Swans before their death.
That the flesh of Peacocks corrupteth not.
That Storks will only live in Republicks and free States.