class="tdlpl4">7. Of Authority,

161 8. A brief enumeration of Authors, 168 9. Of the Same, 178 10. Of the last and common Promoter of false
       Opinions, the endeavours of Satan, 182 11. A further Illustration, 193 The Second Book: 1. Of Crystal, 202 2. Concerning the Loadstone, 216 3. Concerning the Loadstone, 233 4. Of Bodies Electrical, 254 5. Compendiously of sundry other common
       Tenents, concerning Mineral and Terreous
       Bodies, 262 6. Of sundry Tenets concerning Vegetables or
       Plants, 285 7. Of some Insects, and the Properties of
       several Plants, 299 The Third Book, Chapters I.-X.: 1. Of the Elephant, 308 2. Of the Horse, 314 3. Of the Dove, 317 4. Of the Bever, 321 5. Of the Badger, 326 6. Of the Bear, 328 7. Of the Basilisk, 331 8. Of the Wolf, 338 9. Of the Deer, 340 10. Of the King-fisher, 340

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ANNOTATIONS UPON
RELIGIO MEDICI

Nec satis est vulgasse fidem.—
Pet. Arbit. fragment.

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THE ANNOTATOR TO THE READER

A. Gellius (noct. Attic. l. 20. cap. ult.) notes some Books that had strange Titles; Pliny (Prefat. Nat. Hist.) speaking of some such, could not pass them over without a jeer: So strange (saith he) are the Titles of some Books, Ut multos ad vadimonium deferendum compellant. And Seneca saith, some such there are, Qui patri obstetricem parturienti filiæ accersenti moram injicere possint. Of the same fate this present Tract Religio Medici hath partaken: Exception by some hath been taken to it in respect of its Inscription, which say they, seems to imply that Physicians have a Religion by themselves, which is more than Theologie doth warrant: but it is their Inference, and not the Title that is to blame; for no more is meant by that, or endeavoured to be prov'd in the Book then that (contrary to the opinion of the unlearned) Physitians have Religion as well as other men.

For the Work it self, the present Age hath produced none that has had better Reception amongst the learned; it has been received and fostered by almost all, there having been but one that I knew of (to verifie that Books have their Fate from the Capacity of the Reader) that has had the face to appear against it; that is Mr. Alexander