SUPPLEMENT 



TO THE 



POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA. 



[Those articles in the Supplement which have an Italic a within parentheses after the catchword, are additional to wticiM 

 in tlic body of the Encyclopedia under the corresponding titles. Where the articles have no such distinction, they are to 

 be considered as in themselves new and entire.] 



ABANO ABBOTT. 



ABANO; a village in the neighbourhood of 

 Padua, celebrated of late years for its mud-baths, 

 and long ago as the birth-place of the celebrated 

 physician Abano, who takes his name from this the 

 place of his birth. The mud-baths are taken out 

 of the hot basins in which they are found, and are 

 nothing more than warm mud richly impregnated 

 with sulphur and certain other salts, especially lime, 

 common salt, and soda. This mud is applied either 

 generally or partially, as the case of the patient 

 may demand. So valuable is the mud considered, 

 that it is kept after having been used, and at the 

 conclusion of the season, returned to the hot foun- 

 tains, where it is left till the ensuing spring, that 

 it may be impregnated anew with the mineral vir- 

 tues which they contain. The muds on being taken 

 out are intensely hot, and must be kneaded or 

 stirred some time before they can be borne. When 

 applied, the operation very much resembles taking 

 a stucco cast. They retain their heat, without 

 much sensible diminution, for three quarters of an 

 hour, producing the appearance of a slight rubifa- 

 cient having been applied to the part, and produc- 

 ing a profuse perspiration from the whole body, a 

 disposition which continues more particularly in the 

 part to which they have been applied, when un- 

 checked by cold. Hence heat is considered as so 

 essentially seconding their operations, that this 

 watering place, or rather mudding place, is nearly 

 deserted by the end of August. The baths, though 

 sometimes considered a remedy in themselves, are 

 most gent rally held to be mere auxiliaries to the 

 muds, and usually serve only as a prologue and in- 

 terlude to the dirty performance, they being sup- 

 posed to open the pores, and dispose the skin to 

 greater susceptibility. The warm sulphureous 

 water and mud baths cannot fail of being powerful 

 remedies in obstinate rheumatic, hepatic, and cu- 

 taneous affections of a chronic character; and those 

 who labour under these affections, and can find no 

 relief at home by warm sulphureous baths, and the 

 internal use of the Harrowgate, Moffat, or the 

 Donegal sulphureous waters, may perchance find 



relief from the mud-baths of Abano. These springs 

 and muds do not appear to have been known to 

 Peter de Abano. 



ABANO, PETER DE, a celebrated physician, was 

 born at Abano, near Padua, in the year 1250. After 

 studying Greek at Constantinople, he repaired to 

 Paris, where he took his degree of medicine and 

 philosophy. Before returning to his native land, 

 he visited England and Scotland. In 1302, he was 

 appointed professor of medicine at Padua, but he 

 soon relinquished it, and went to practise physic at 

 Bologna, where his reputation rose very high. The 

 philosophical studies and the liberal sentiments of 

 Abano, however, drew upon him the notice of the 

 inquisition. In 1306, he was denounced before the 

 inquisitorial tribunal, as guilty of necromancy and 

 divination. He was, however, by the powerful 

 intercession of his friends, freed from these charges, 

 but jot long after, he was again dragged before the 

 inquisition, and accused of the more popular crimes 

 of heresy and atheism. The health and spirits of 

 Abano sunk under this persecution, and death re- 

 scued him from the grasp of his enemies, in 1315. 

 As the only display remaining of their impotent 

 fury, the inquisition burned his effigy in the market 

 place at Padua. The principal work of Abano is 

 entitled, Conciliator differ eHtiarum philosophorum 

 et precipue Medicorum, which was first published 

 at Venice in 1471, and though it has passed through 

 many editions, is now scarce. He wrote a variety 

 of other works, particularly three on Astrology, 

 which science was a favourite study of Abano's. 



ABBOTT, CHARLES, Lord Tenterden, an 

 eminent lord chief justice of the court of queen's 

 bench, was born at Canterbury on the 7th Oct. 

 1762. His education commenced at the free gram- 

 mar school of that city, and he was afterwards sent 

 to Oxford, where he soon obtained both a fellow- 

 ship and tutorship. The tutorship was in the 

 family of Mr Justice Buller, by whom he was advised 

 to apply to the study of the law, with an encourag- 

 ing prediction that he would rise high in that pro- 

 fession. He accordingly entered at thu Inner Tern- 



