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children were 3eftroyed." His work is \'e\j full on tlie 

 fubjoi-t, giving rules for the management of women before, 

 during, and after parturition. He has left formulse for a 

 variety of ointments, with which he direfts the pudenda of 

 the women to be anointed, and which he thought conduced 

 much to accelerate the birth of the child. When thefe 

 failed, lapis xtites was to be tied to one of the thir^rhs of the 

 woman, and polipody of the oak to the feet. But thcfe, 

 he gravely admonillies, are to be taken away as foon as the 

 child is born, left they fhould draw away the womb alfo. 

 Such mighty power was attributed to thtfe trifles ! It is 

 probable, however, that the author only meant by thefe 

 proceffcs to gain time, and to prevent the too hafty interfer- 

 ence of the midwivts, furgcons, &c. ; and as there was no- 

 thing in the remedies that could injure the woman, who 

 ■would fiequtntly be delivered by the natural pains, during 

 their ufe, he might nux. be forry to find the attendants attri- 

 buting the lafety of the woman and child, and the happy 

 termiiiation of the labour, to them. Whatever his real opi- 

 nion might be, it is certain, that, among the people, thefe 

 kinds of remedies acquired great credit, and the ufe of them 

 was continued for near a century after his time. Among 

 other objects that engrofled the attention of this writer, we 

 find him giving formulx for ointments for fmoothing the 

 wrinkles of the abdomen, and for preventing the breafts of 

 women who had borne children from becoming large and pen- 

 dulous. " Ne venter rugis indscoru ,"he fays, "ct llatens, eas 

 viris fuis ingratas, parum amabiles, ct abominar.das reddat ; 

 lie mamniK in majorem molem extendantur." His book ap- 

 pears to have been in great requeft, as it paflcd through 

 many editions, and isinferted in the " Colleftion of Treatifes 

 on diforders attending pregnancy and child-birth," by Caf- 

 arWoltius, pubh(hed in 1586, re-edited by If. Spachius, 

 "ol. 1597, under the title of " Gynecia, five de mulierum 

 morbis," from which the above quotations have been taken. 

 Haller. Bib. Med. 



Bon, John Philip, probably of the fame family with 

 John le Bon, publifhed, at Padua, " De Concordantiis Phi- 

 lofophis et Medicince," 4to. 1573 ; he was alfo author of 

 feveral poetical works, which were much efteemed in their 

 time. Eloy. Dift. Hift. 



Bon, in Botany, {Affirms). See Coffea. 

 Bon, Ca/ie, in Geography, called by the Moors Ras- 

 Addar, and the promontory of Mercury, or Hermes, of the 

 ancients, is a cape of Africa, in the kingdom of Tunis, 

 in the Mediterranean fea, diftant 11 leagues E.S.E. from 

 that of Zibeeb, and forming the eaftcrn point, as Zibceb 

 does the weftern, of the gulf of Tunis. It is fo high, that 

 from its fummit the mountains of Sicily, diftant more than 

 20 leagues, may be difcovered i.:i fair weather. See JKci- 

 MURVS, and Dakhul. Cape Bon is fituated about N.N.E. 

 from Tunis. N.lat. 36=50'. E.long. 1 1° ij'. 



Bon, in Modern hijiory, the name of a feaft celebrated 

 annually by the Japanefe in honour of the dead. On this 

 occafion they ufe a great number of lights, and run with 

 cagernefs to the tombs of their departed relations with fuch 

 choice meats as they conceive to be fuited to the tafte and 

 jiourilhment of the dead. 



Bon, Fr. ; Buono, Ital. ; as terns Ion, and tempo luono, 

 ufed, in Mufic, to exprefs the accented parts of a bar. It 

 is the firft note of binary meafure of two minims or two 

 crotchets in a bar ; the firft note of the ternary meafure of 

 I or |, and the firft and third notes of common time. It 

 is oppofed to terns mama'is and tempo cut/ivo, the unaccented 

 part of a bar. The French, at prefent, diftinguifh thefe 

 portions of a bar by the terms terns fort and terns faille, ftrong 

 and weak, and almoft loud and foft parts of a bar. It is on 



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the accented part of a bar that a difcord regularly prepared 

 is ftruck, and refolved on the unaccented part. 



BONA, John, Cardinal, in Biography, was born at 

 Mondovi, in Piedmont, in 1609, and entered at an early 

 age into a reformed congregation of Cillertians. After 

 having ftudied philofophy and theology at Rome, he re- 

 turned to his own country, and became, in 1 65 1, general 

 of the congregation ; and he was, at length, viz. in 1669, 

 nominated a cardinal by pope Clement IX. Upon the 

 death of this pontiff, he was thought of as a fit perfon to 

 fucceed him ; but another was eledted. The cardinal fpent 

 the remainder of his days in ftudy and pious exercifes, and 

 died at Rome in 167+. He was the author of feveral works, 

 chiefly of a devotional kind ; fuch as, " De Divina Pfalrao- 

 dia, deque variis ritibus omnium ecclefiarum in pfallendis di- 

 vinis ofRciis," 4to. containing an hillorical account of the 

 praftice of pfalmody in theChriilian church ; and " Rerum 

 Liturgicarum libri duo," 4to. giving a fimilar account of 

 the celebration of the niafs. Both thcfe works have been 

 often reprinted ; and of the latter an edition much enlarged 

 was publifhed at Turin, in 1747, by father Salas, in 4 vols, 

 fol. Gen. Dift. 



Bona, John de, profefTor of medicine at Padua, pub- 

 lifhed, 1758, " Hiftorine aliquot curationum, mercurio fab- 

 limato corrodente, perfeftarum," Veronae, 410. This me- 

 dicine was much commended by baron Van Swieten, and 

 forms probably the bafis of moft of our uoftrums celebrated 

 for their power of removing pimples, blotches, &c. from 

 the face and other parts of the fliin. It was intended by 

 the author to fuperfede falivation in the cure of lues vene- 

 rea, and in fome cafes it has been ufed with complete fuc- 

 cefs ; but it too often difappoints the expcftation of the 

 prefcriber, to be entirely depended on. " Traflatus de 

 Scorbuto," 4to. 1761. The author fhcws that this difeafe, 

 though moft frequent in cold marfhy places, is not unfre- 

 quent in warm countries. " Dell ufo e dell abufo dell 

 caffe," Venet. 1761. Coffee, which is hot and drying, 

 fliould only be ufed, he fays, by perfons of cold phlegmatic 

 conltitutions. In the quantity it is iiTually taken in this 

 country, it will fcarce be hurtful to any habit or conflitu- 

 tion. " Obfervationes medicje ad praxim in nofocomio. 

 anno," 1765, 8vo. Patav. 1766. Haller Bib. Anat. 



Bona, in Botany, [Dodoens). See Vicia Narlonenfts, 

 and Faba. 



Bona Nox. See Smilax. 



Bona, in Geography, a fea-port' town of Africa, in the 

 eaftern or Levantine government of the kingdom of Algiers,, 

 and province of Conftantina ; known to the Moors by the 

 name of Blaid el Ancb, or the town of ju'iebs, from the 

 plenty of fruit which is gathered in the neighbourhood. 

 Bona, fays Dr. Shaw (Travels, p. 46.), is, without doubt, 

 a corruption of Hippo, or Hippona, though the rivers of 

 the ancient Hippo-regius are fituated fomewhat more than a 

 mile to the fouth, and furnifhed materials for theeredlion of 

 Bona, which is the Aphrodifium of Ptolemy, and placed bv 

 him 15' to the north of Hippo. Bona was formerly rich and 

 populous, but is now poorly built and thinly inhabited. 

 Bona, bcfides its capacious harbour to the eaft, had for- 

 merly a convenient little port under its walls towards the 

 fouth ; but by the conftant difcharge of ballaft into the one, _ 

 and a negleft of cleanfing the other, both are rendered 

 unfafe and incommodious. However, a great quantity of 

 corn, wool, hides, and wax, are every year permitted to be 

 fhipped off from this place ; and, by proper management, 

 it might be rendered the moft: flourifhing city in Barbary ; 

 and, by introducing a fupply of frefh water, it would alfo 

 become one of the moft convenient and delightful. The 



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