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ther, the Rev,/ Thomas Huntingford, he succeeded 

 him in the mastership of Warminster school ; and 

 continued there for some years. In 1781, he first 

 confided himself to the press, in a private edition 

 of fifty copies of some Greek monostrophic odes. 

 These compositions, not only exhibited his know- 

 ledge of the beautiful language in which they are 

 written, but ranked him high as a man of poetical 

 genius. In the following year they were printed 

 by Mr Nichols, at the expense of Mr Burdon, the 

 bookseller at Winchester. They were reviewed 

 in the Monthly Review, by Dr Charles Burney ; 

 who, with some warm and well-deserved compli- 

 ments, combined a series of elaborate remarks on 

 some supposed lapses of correctness, which were 

 afterwards defended in an "Apology" annexed to 

 a second collection, published in 1784. A " Trans- 

 lation of Huntingford's First Collection of Monos- 

 trophics," by the Rev. P. Smyth, was printed in 

 1785. In 1782, Mr Huntingford published the first 

 part of his " Introduction to the Writing of Greek, 

 after the manner of Clarke's Introduction to 

 Latin." This work has been adopted in the higher 

 forms of almost all the classical schools in the 

 kingdom. The second part, consisting of select 

 sentences from Xenophon, is now united to it. 

 He also published, in 1788, " Ethic Sentences, by 

 writing of which Boys may become accustomed to 

 the Greek Characters." Another classical work 

 was a Latin interpretation of Milan. In 1785, he 

 was chosen a Fellow of Winchester college. In 

 1789, he published a sermon preached in the cathe- 

 dral church of Salisbury, at the triennial visita- 

 tion of the lord bishop. In the same year he was 

 appointed Warden of Winchester college ; and in 

 1793, he accumulated the degrees of B. and D.D. 

 In the latter year he published a sermon preached 

 before the House of Commons; in 1795 and 1797, 

 two volumes, each containing twelve discourses ; 

 and in the last-named year, also, a discourse preached 

 before the Hampshire Fawley volunteers. In 1800, 

 he published " A Call for Union with the Estab- 

 lished Church, addressed to English Protestants ; 

 being a Compilation of Passages from various 

 Authors " (reprinted in 1808). It was dedicated 

 to Mr Speaker Addington, who had been his pupil 

 at Winchester ; and who, after becoming prime 

 minister, in the following year, advanced him to 

 the bishopric of Gloucester. From Gloucester, 

 Dr Huntingford, after he had previously declined 

 translation, was, in 1815, promoted to the See of 

 Hereford. His publications, whilst on the bench, 

 were almost entirely professional : their titles are 

 as follows : "A Sermon for the Royal Humane So- 

 ciety, at St James's," 1803, 8vo.; " Thoughts on 

 the Trinity," 1804, 8vo.; " A Sermon before the 

 House of Lords," May 25, 1804, 4to. ; " A Ser- 

 mon at St Martin's-in-the-Fields, before the Go- 

 vernors of the Benevolent Institution for deliver- 

 ing poor Married Women," March 9, 1806, 4to. ; 

 " Preparation for the Holy Order of Deacons, or 

 the first Question proposed to Candidates for the 

 Holy Order of Deacons elucidated, a Charge," 

 1807; " Preparation for the Holy Order of Priests, 

 or the Words of Ordination and Absolution ex- 

 plained, a Charge," 1809; " The Petition of the 

 English Roman Catholics considered, in a Charge 

 delivered at his Triennial Visitation in 1810;" 

 " A Protestant Letter, addressed to the Right 

 Hon. Lord Somers," 1813, 8vo. The bishop 

 died, unmarried, on the 29th April, 1832, leaving 

 a high character as a scholar and a man of worth. 

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HYDRATE ; a term used in chemistry to de- 

 signate a definite compound of water. Thus, 

 caustic potash is composed of dry potash KO, and 

 water HO, and is called the hydrate of potash. 

 Slaked lime is a compound of lime with water, a 

 hydrate of lime. Oil of vitriol is a hydrate of 

 sulphuric acid, or a compound of the dry acid with 

 water. Alcohol is a hydrate of ether, &c., &c. 

 Many metallic oxides, when precipitated, combine 

 with water, and form solid hydrates. Peroxide of 

 iron and alumina, for example, when precipitated, 

 contain twenty-five or twenty-six equivalents of 

 water for one of the dry oxide. 



HYDRIODIC ACID; a powerful acid gas, 

 composed of iodine and hydrogen. It is very ana- 

 logous to hydrochloric or muriatic acid gas, from 

 which it is distinguished by containing iodine in- 

 stead of chlorine. 



HYDROBROMIC ACID; an acid gas analo- 

 gous to the preceding, and to the following ; com- 

 posed of bromine and hydrogen. 



HYDROCHLORIC ACID; the systematic 

 name of the acid, long known as muriatic acid, or 

 spirit of salt. It is composed of chlorine and hyd- 

 rogen, and is the type of the class of hydracids. 

 When these acids are placed in contact with me- 

 tallic oxides, they do not combine with them, but 

 mutual decomposition occurs, the hydrogen of the 

 acid uniting with the oxygen of the oxide to form 

 water, while the metal combines with the radical 

 of the acid to form a salt. Thus, when hydro- 

 chloric acid, (Cl H) acts in oxide of silver (Ag O) 

 there are formed water (HO) and chloride of silver, 

 (Ag Cl). See Muriatic Acid. 



HYDROCYANIC ACID; a hydracid, com- 

 posed of cyanogen and hydrogen. It has long been 

 known as prussic acid. It is a most virulent poi- 

 son, acting, in a full dose, with greater rapidity 

 than any other poison known to physiologists. Of 

 the pure acid one or two drops will cause death in 

 a few seconds, if introduced into the mouth of a 

 large animal. When a dose insufficient to cause 

 instant death has been administered, the proper 

 antidotes are ammonia, chlorine, and the cold affu- 

 sion, which sometimes prove effectual after life 

 appears extinct. See Prussic Acid. 



HYOSCYAMINE; a vegetable alkali, extracted 

 from the hyoscyamus niger, or henbane, by Geiger 

 and Hesse. It is liquid, volatile, has a strong nar- 

 cotic odour, like oil of tobacco, dilates the pupil 

 powerfully, and is a virulent narcotic poison. 



HYPOCHONDRIASIS AND HYSTERIA, 

 (a.) Among the parts of medical study which would 

 seem particularly to recommend themselves to gene- 

 ral readers, we should be disposed to place that 

 melancholy malady to which physicians give the 

 name of hypochondriasis ; and that changeful dis- 

 order which vexes the female constitution, and 

 baffles the medical practitioner, under the compre- 

 hensive appellation of hysteria. Both these affec- 

 tions, whilst they grievously disturb the body, 

 either take their origin, or derive aggravation from, 

 or induce, in different examples, great disturbance 

 or impairment of mind ; insomuch that the most 

 zealous writer of prescriptions can hardly promise 

 deliverance from either disease, unaided by some 

 general mental regimen. Although the identity of 

 these diseases has been maintained by many authors, 

 there is not only, in the symptoms, the causes, and 

 the treatment of the maladies, little like an approach 

 to identity, but there actually appears to be no kind 

 of resemblance. In the symptoms of the two disor- 



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