BAG 



of being himfelf too much addifted to theory; his credulity 

 is alfo cenfured, for fufTenng himfelf to be impofed on by 

 vagabonds, pretending to labour under various nervous affec- 

 tions, in confoquence of having been bitten by a tarantula, 

 a fpecics of fpidcr common in fome parts of Italy, and that 

 they could only be cured by certain mufical founds. lV.:t 

 we fhall be difpofed to moderate our cenfure of Baglivi, 

 when we tind our countryman Dr. Mead (who, though born 

 about the fame time, lived nearly fifty years after him) at- 

 tempting to account for thtfe extraordinary eifcCts of the 

 bite of the infect, attributing them to the temperature of 

 the climate, and of the inhabitants of Apulia, where the 

 fpider is .moft frequent, and explaining, on philofophical 

 principles, the manner in which mufic operates in allaying 

 the tumult in the conditution occafioned by the poifon. 

 Mead feems to think it not improbable that Pythagoras firll 

 introduced this mode of practice, in curing the cffedts of the 

 bite of the tarantula. See his Medical Works, 4to. p. 66, 

 &c. The fame year, viz. 1696, Baglivi p>ibh(hcd his differ- 

 tation " De Anatome, morfu, et effcdtibus Tarantula ;" then 

 followed his treatife " De Fibra motrice et morbofa." In 

 this work is contained the author's theory, borrowed from 

 Pachioni (to whom, however, he fays. Op. Om. p. 258, he 

 communicated his lucubrations), of the origin of the motion 

 ofthefolids; which he attributes, cap. iv. to a corifent be- 

 tween the heart and the dura mater. In 1704 he publidied 

 at Rome " De Medicina foLdo-um ad rectum ftatices ufum 

 Canones ;" and in 1705, " De progreffione Terra motus." 

 Thefe, with various other differtations, have been collected 

 and publi(hed under the title of " Opera Omnia," which 

 has paffl-d through ntmierous editions; and t'lough his 

 theory has long fince given place to others, in their turn to 

 yield to theories perhaps equally fallible, the work will al- 

 ways deferve the attention of the medical lludents, for the 

 numerous and valuable obfervations with which it abounds. 

 Baarl'vi died in the year 1707, aged only 38 years. Haller. 

 Bib. Med.Pi-acl. and Bib. Anatom. 



BAGNA, in Geography, a town of Servia, twenty miles 

 rortlT-eaft of Parnkin. 



BAGNACAVALLO, a town of Italy, in the ftate of 

 the church, and duchy of Ferrara, on the river Seno, forty 

 miles Weft of Ravenna. 



BAGNAGAR. See Hvdrabad. 



BAGNALET, a town of France, one league eaft of 

 Paris. 



BAGNARA, a fea-port town of Italy, in the kingdom 

 of Naples, and province of Calabria Ultra, deftroyed by an 

 earthquakein the year 1783; fourteen miles weft of Oppido. 

 N.lat. 38° 15'. E.long. 16-8'. 



BAGNAREIA, a town of Italy, in the ftatc of the 

 church, and province of Patrimonio, with a bifliop's fee; 

 fix miles fouth of Orvieto. N.lat. 42° 36'. E.long. 12° 

 10'. 



BAGNERES De Luchon, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Upper Garonne, and chief place of a 

 canton in the diftrift of St. Gaudens, near the fource of 

 the river Garonne, at the foot of tlie Pyrenees, poflTefling 

 fome medicinal fprings ; feven leagues louth of St. Gau- 

 dens. 



Bagseres en B'lgore, a town of France, and principal 

 place of a diilriit in the department of the Higher Pyrenees, 

 feated on the Adojir ; celebrated for its baths, which are 

 much frequented in fpring and autumn, a fmall but neat 

 town ; ten miles fouth of Tarbcs. N. lat. 43° 3'. E. long. 

 0° I z'. 



BAGNEUX, a town of France, li league S.S.W. of 

 Paris. 



Vol.. III. 



BAG 



BAGXI, a town of European Turkey, in Romania, 

 forty miles weft of Filippopoli.— Alfo, a town of Italv, in 

 the kingdom of Naples, and country of Lavora, eight mile, 

 fouth of Sezza — Alfo, a town of Eurcpean Turkey, in llie 

 province of Macedonia, on the river Vardar, forty-four mileg 

 N.N.E. of Akrida. ' 



BAGNIALACK, a town of European Turkey, in the 

 province of Bofnia. N. lat. 44". E. long. 18" 10'. 



BAGNIO, an Italian term fignifying a b'tih ; it is ufcd 

 by us lor a houfc with conveniences for bathing, fwtating, 

 and otherwife cleanfing the body ; and fo.-nctimts for worfe 

 purpofes. 



Bagnio is alfo become a general name in Turkey for the 

 prifons where their flavcs arc inclofed; it being ufual in thofc 

 prifons to have baths* 



BAGNOLENSES, or Bagnolians, in Eccleftapcal 

 Hijlary, a feft in the eighth century, who were thought 

 Manichees, though they denied their errors. — They rejected 

 the Old Teftament, and part of the New; held the world to 

 be eternal; and affirmed, that God did not create the foul 

 when he iiifufed it into the body. 



They derive their name from Bagn'Js, a city in Larguedoc, 

 whe'ie they were chicfiy found. 



BAGNOLS, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Gard, and chief place of a canton in the 

 diftrid of Pont St. Efpiit, two leagiJes fouth of Pont 

 St Efprit. 



Bagnols, Us Bains, a town of France, in the depDrtment 

 of the Lozerrc, and chief place of a canton ia the dillrict of 

 Mende, eight miles eaft of Mende. 



BAGNUOLO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 

 Naples, and Principato ITltra, twelve miles weft of Conza. 



BAGOI, among the Ancient Petfians, were the fi.iie 

 with thofe called by the Latins, Jpadones, viz. a fpc- 

 cies of eunuchs, in whom the canal of the penis was fo 

 contorted by a tight vinculum, that they could not emit 

 the femcn. 



BAGORODITZ, in Geography, one of the twelve 

 diftrifts of the government of Tula, in Ruflia, feated on 

 the river Upa. 



BAGOUS, in yfnrien/ G<fOgraphy, a name given to a 

 ridge of mountains which were part of mount Imaus, towards 

 the fource of the river Ii;;hiS. 



BAGPIPE, a mufical in(\rument of the wind kind, 



chiefly lile-d in country places, cfpecially in the No:th It 



confiils of two principal parts; the hrft a Itatbem bsg, 

 which is blown up like a foot-ball, bv means of a port 

 vent, or little tube, fitted to it, and ftopped by a valve. 



The other part confifts of three pipes or flutes; the firll, 

 called the great pipe, or drone ; and the fecoud, the little one, 

 which pafles thewmd only out at the bottom; the third has 

 a reed, and is played Ciii by comprefTing the bag under the 

 arm when full, and opening or Hopping the holes, which are 

 eight, with the fingers. The little pipe it ordinarily a 

 foot long, that played on thirteen inches, and the port 

 vent fix. 



The bagpipe takes in the compafs of three oftavcs. 

 This inftrument was not unknown to the ancients. It 

 was called by the Greeks arxaeAo;; by the Romans tibia 

 ulricuiaris. The Italians call it y>;V<7, for/;«mryj ; the French 

 mufelte and chalumeau. In the liilt edition of the French 

 Encvclopcdie, there is a minute and elaborate defcription of 

 the inftrument, its conftiuClion, fc.ile, &c. By the orna- 

 ments mentioned, it muft have been admitted into good 

 company. 



The invention of it is derived by fome from Tubal; others 



afcribe it to Panj others to Mercury, to Faunus, to Mar- 



3 N fyas. 



