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medicine into which bezoar enters, or one that refembks the 

 bczoar in its fuppofcd power of coiuiteiading poilons, or 

 afterwards, fimply, a cordial. A /evv metallic preparations 

 have had this appellation. 



BEZOARDICA Ca?r/i, Syrt. Nat. Hlrais bezoarJi- 

 cus, Aldr. y/iilmal iczoarlktim. Raj. Bezoiir Antelope, 

 Pennant, &c. ns.mcs oi xhe Antilobc Cazeila. Ginclin. 



Bezoardica term, a name ufed by fume authors for a 

 medical earth dug in the pope's territories, and more Ire- 

 quentlv called terra itoicriana. 



BEZOARDICUM Miniraif, or Rp.ncral Eezoar, 

 is a perfect oxyd of antimony, made by adding nitrous acid 

 to the butter of antimony, and dtfcribed under the article 

 Antimony. 



Bezoardicum fovlalc, is a mixed oxyd of antimony and 

 tin, formed by fufiiig i- gethor thefe metals, dillilling vyith 

 corrofivc fublimatc to convert both metals of the alloy into 

 a butler, or muriated oxyd, and adding nitrous acid to reduce 

 them both to a ptrfecl limple oxyd. It is entirely difufcd. 



BEZOLA, in Ichthyology, the name of a kind ot S.ilmo, 

 called by Gcfner, Albula caerulea, and fuppofed to be in no 

 rcfptct different from Sahno Lavaretus. 



BEZOUT, Stkphen, in Biography, a celebrated ma- 

 thematician of France, was born at Nemours, March 19, 

 1736, O. S. and iiotwitlillanding oppofition on the part of 

 his father, devoted himfelf to th.e affiJuous profecution of tlie 

 mathematical fciences, to whieli his tallc flrongly inclined 

 him. In 175^, he was appointed adjundl mechanic to the 

 Paris academy of fciences, af.er having communicated two 

 memoirs on the integral calculus, and affording other proofs 

 of his proficiency in the miithematics ; in 1763, he was no- 

 minated examiner to the marine ; alTociate to the academy 

 in 1 76?'! ; and, in the fame year, member of the academy of 

 marine ad'a'rs, and examiner of the pupils of the royal corps 

 of artillery ; and, in 1 776, royal ccnfor. His particular at- 

 tention was directed to the folution of algebraic equations, 

 and he had t'le ho.iour of lirft difcovcring a method ol refoh-- 

 iag a particular clafs of equations of all degrees. In this 

 work of invelligating the roots of fuch ecjuations, he was oc- 

 cafi-onally engaged from 1762 till 1779, when he publlhed 

 his treatife on the fubjecl. To dillinguillied talents, and ela- 

 borate refearches '\\\ the abllrufer parts of mathematics, Be- 

 zout added an affiduous difcharge of the duties of the public 

 ftations which he occupied, and a private charadler which 

 was dcfervedly cfteemed. The following anecdote furniihes 

 a plcafing fpecimen of liis regartl Ui jiilbce in the excrcife 

 of his ofiic?, and at the fame time of the benignity and con- 

 d,;fcenfiGn of his temper. When two at his pupils were con- 

 fi'.iid by the fmallpox, and incapable of attending for the 

 purpofc of an examination, the want of which would have de- 

 layed their advaiKemcnt for a whole year, he ventured, 

 ihouih he had never had that diforder, to vifit them in 

 perfon, and to-afcertain their proficitncy, by which he was 

 enabled to make a report in their favour. His conllitution 

 was at length impaired by his unremitting application, the 

 fatigues of his various offices, and fome pcrfonal chagrins ; 

 and he fell a facrifice to a malignant fever, September 27, 

 1783, in the 54t!i year of his age. His publications were 

 " A Courfe of Mathematics for the Ufe of the Marine, with 

 a Treatife on Navigation," 6 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1764; a 

 " Courfe of Mathematics for the Coi-ps of Artillery," 

 4 vols. 8vo. 1770 ; " General Theory of Algebraic Equa- 

 tions," 4to. 1779 ; with a confidcrable number of Memoirs, 

 chiefly mathematical, in the volumes of the French Aca- 

 demy. Montuclp, Hill, des Mathem. vol. iii. p. 47. 298. 

 Hulton's Math. Did. Art. Bezoi't,. 



BEZOZZI, Alexajjder and Jbko.m, brothers in the 



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fervlce of the king of Sardinia, at Turin, the moft cele- 

 brated performers of their time ; the one on the hautbois, 

 and the other on the baffoon. Thefe kindred inllruments 

 were rendered famous all over Italy during the middle of the 

 lall century, not only by the exquifite performance, but by 

 the amiably fuigular charaftcr of thefe two brothers. Their 

 long and uninterrupted affccl^lon and refidence together, were 

 ai remarkable as their performance. They were brothers; 

 the cldeft, when we heard them in 177O, was 70,_and the 

 youngell 60. The i(fem velle et iiltm nolle were as perfectly in 

 tune as their inilruments ; fo that they had always lived to- 

 gether in the utmoft harmony, carrying their fimilarity of 

 lalle to their very drcfs, which was the lame in every parti- 

 cular, even to buckles and buttons. They had lived fo long-, 

 and in fuch a cordial manner together, that it was thought, 

 wheneverone of them died, the other would not long furvive 

 him ; which was exaftly the cafe, both dying in 1780, within 

 a few months of each other. 



The compolitions of thefe exquifite performers generally 

 confided of felcdl and detached pafiagcs, yet fo highly po- 

 lilhed, that like apophthegms or maxims in literature, each 

 was not a fragment but a whole ; their pieces being in a 

 peculiar manner contrived to difplay the genius of their ie- 

 veral inllruments and powers of perforrrance. The eldeit 

 played the hautbois, and the youngell the baffbon ; but it 

 is difficult to defcrlbc their peculiarities of expreilion. Their 

 conipofitions, when printed, gave but an imperfect idea of 

 its fwettnefs and delicacy: fuch a perfect acquiefcence and 

 agreement together, that maiiy of the paiTages ieemed 

 heart-felt fighs breathed through the fame reed. No bril- 

 liancy of execution was aimed at ; all were notes of mean- 

 ing. The imitations were txaft; the melody equally divided 

 between the two inllruments; each yir/c, piano, crcjlendo, 

 tli-iiinueiu'o, and appogialura (fee all thefe terms in their 

 places), were oblcrved with a minute exaftnefs that could 

 be attained only by a long refidence and fludv together. The 

 eldcll brother had loll his under fro:it-tecth, and complained 

 of age; and it was natural to fnppofc tti;!t the performance 

 of each had been better ; however, to me (fays Dr. ijurney), 

 who heard them now, for t!ie firll time, it was delightful I If 

 there was any thing to lament in fo exquifite performance, 

 it arofe from the equal perfeclion of the ttco parts ; which 

 diilracled the attention, except when in dialonuf, fo much 

 as to render it impoffi.ble to liften to both, when both had 

 diffimilar ir.elodies equally plcafing. 



They were born at Patnia, and had been upwards of 40 years 

 in the fcrvice of his Sardinian majellv, without everquittiag 

 Italy, (except one fliort excurfion to Paris, in 1755,) *"" ^^^^ 

 Turin, but for that journey, and another to vifit the place 

 of their nativity. They were men of a fobcr, regular, and 

 moral charafter ; in eafy circun.ftances ; had a town and 

 country houfe, and in the former many good pidlurcs by the 

 firll mailers. 



The Bezozzi fam.ily has furniflied many adinirable muii- 

 cians to Italy, and other parts of Europe. Gaetano Be- 

 zozzi, a celebrated performer on the hautbois in the king of 

 France's fervicr, was born at Parma, in 1727, entered into 

 the fervice of the king of Naples in 1736, and into that of the 

 king of France in 1765. We heard him perforin a concerto 

 at the concert fpiriltial at Paris in 1770, with great pleafure; 

 and thought him fuperior to all whom we had then heard 011 

 the hautbois, except Fifcher. His father, Jofeph Bezozzi, 

 had taught the celebrated brothers at Turin, Alexander 

 and Jerom, his brothers, to play on the hautbois and baf- 

 foon. « M. Bezozzi of Paris," fays Laberde, " in 1780, 

 had during 25 years merited and enjoyed the highell reputa- 

 tion, 33 well as the elleem of all who knew him. His fon 

 ^ was 



