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, 348 ANNOTATIONS UPON RELIGIO MEDICI _Nec satis est vulgasse fidem._-- Pet. Arbit. fragment. 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_.