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Milt?. The PrufTmns lakl (le^e to this fortrefs in i;+j, 

 hilt were obliged to ab?.mlon tlie enterprifc. In the town 

 are fix cloilters, the bilhop's palace, a collegiate church, and 

 a college of Jefiiits. The cloiller of Augulline hennits is 

 famous for an image of the vi-gin Mary, pivtended to have 

 been made by St. Luke, and a foundation for young ladies. 

 13runn is dillaiit about 32 miles S.W. of Ol iitz, <oo S.E. 

 of P ague, and 156 «.E. of Dlcfdcn. N. lat. 49° 10', 

 E- long. l6~' i5'. 



r.RVNN, a circle of Moravia, bounded on the north by 

 Bohemia, on the ck!1 by the circle of Olmiitz ai:d Ilradilh, 

 on the foiith by Aullria, and on tiie well by the circle of 

 Iglau and Znayin. In this circle are many iron-mines and 

 forges, medicinal fpriiigs, quaVries of marble, glafshoufes, 

 and alum-workj. It is laid to contain 70 towns, and above 

 20,781 houfcs. The capital is ISrunn. 



BRUNNEA, in Entonoh^y, a name given to a fpccies 

 of MusCA, tlvit is entirely of a brown colour. L'.nn. This 

 J3 a native of Europe. 



Bri^nnea, an Ead Indian fpscies of Vespa of the larger 

 kinds. The prevailing colour is dull, ferruginous ; firft. and 

 fecond fegment black at the bafe. Fabr. 



The legs and antennx of this infcft are ferruginous. 

 Brvnnea, a fpecies of Piial;ena, having brown wings, 

 wich a large tranlVerfe yellow fpot in the middle ; margin 

 chcfiiut brown. This is of the Noclua family, and inhabits 

 Germany. 



Brunnea, a fpccies of Chrysomfla, of a fmall fize, 

 that inhabits New Holland. It is teilaceous, with the fu- 

 ture of the elytra, and- a fmall hne in the middle, fufcous. 

 Fabr. &c. 



Brlnnea, m Nalur/il Hi/lory, a fpecies of Planaria, 

 of an oblong (Impe, and brown colour, with a longitudinal 

 black line. 'Miill. Hift. Verm. Its habitat unknown. This 

 is nearly alli'.i'; to nigra, another fpecies of Planaria. 

 X BRUNNEARIA, in Enlomolosy, a fpecies of Ph al^-ena 

 {G,ci):elra), the wings of which are deep yellow, with a 

 black margin above, and two black flrcaks beneath. This 

 is a native of Italv. 



BRUNNEATA, a fpccies of Phal;ena [Geomeira), 

 ■with ferruginous wings, and four abrupt brown bands. In- 

 habits Upfal. Borgilr. Inf. 



BRUNNF.N, in Geography, a populous village of Swif- 

 fcrland, in the canton of Schweitz, iituate in the midll 

 r.f a bay formed by a branch of the lake Luctrn, or lake of 

 the four cantons ; celebrated for the treaty concluded in 

 1311;, between Uri, Schwcitz, and Undcrwalden, which 

 gave birth to the Helvetic confederacy. It was again dif- 

 titiguiflicd in April )7'yS, by being the place where deputies 

 from the cantons of Uri, Schwcitz, Undcrwalden, and Gla- 

 rus, unanimoufly determined to maintain their independence, 

 and to refill the innovations of the French. Brunnen is fe- 

 parated from Schwcitz by a pleafant and fertile plain, laid 

 out in meadows, and planted with fruit trees, and diftant 

 from it about 2^ miles S.W. N. lat. 46° 56'. E. long. 

 8° 26'. 



BRUNNEOLUS, in Entomology, a Linns:an fpccies of 

 Ichneumon, peculiar to Europe. The pervading colour is 

 black ; abdomen and legs reddifh ; antennx reddilh, with 

 the biife black ; pofterior brown. 



BRUNNER, Balthazar, \n Biography, born at Hall, 

 in Saxony, the n-.iddle of the l6th century; addi£ling him- 

 fclf to t!;e ftudy of medicine, was fent to the univerlity at 

 Erford, and altcrwards to Leipfic, where he was admitted 

 to the degree of doftor in that faculty. He then travelled 

 over part of Italy, France and England, and having paffed 

 three years in thofe countries, returned to Hall, where he 

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acquired much reputation for his learning and for his flcill'in 

 his prof^nion. He died in 1604. A few years after his death, 

 were pubhihcd, coUedled fiom his paper?, " Confilia nxdi- 

 ca, fuinmo lludio collecla et revifa, a Laurentio Hnffman, 

 Hal^ Sax." 1617,410. " De Scorbuto T-aftatus duo," 

 8vo. : fince printed with the treatife of Engalenus, written 

 in a irethodical manner, and giving an accurate account of 

 the difcafe. Among other remedies, he recommends the 

 juice of water crefTes taken in milk-whey. Though attach- 

 ed to chymillry, in which he was allowed to be expert, he 

 left no written documents on that fubjecl. Haller Bib, 

 Med. Eloy.Dift. Hill. 



Brunser, John Conrad, a Swifs phyfician and ana- 

 tomill of eminence, was born at DiefTenhofen, the iCth of 

 January 165J. After paffing through the ulual fchool edu- 

 cation, he was fent, at the age of 16, to Stralbiirg, where, 

 applying afliduoufly to the (iudy of phylic, and anatomy, 

 he was created doftor in medicine in 1672. For his theiis, 

 he gave the anatomy of a child with two heads, which it 

 was his fortune to meet with. He now went to Paris, and 

 attended the fchools and hofpitals there, with fuch affiduity, 

 as to attraifl the notice, and gain him the intimacy of Di- 

 onis and du Verny, who were prefent while he made the 

 experiments on the pancreas, which enabled him, fome 

 years after, to publilh a more accurate defcription of that 

 vifcus, than had been before given, under the title of " Ex- 

 perimenta nova circa Pancreas. Accedit Diatribe de Lym.- 

 pha et gcnuino Pancreatis ufu," 8vo. 1682, Leida;. He 

 proved that the fluid fecrcted by the pancreas is not necef- 

 fary to digcllion, and that an animal may live after that vif- 

 cus is taken out of the body, having tried the experiment 

 upon a dog, which pcrfeflly recovered from the operation. 

 On quitting Paris, he came to Jjondou, and was introduced 

 to Dr. Willis, Lower, and Henry Oldenburg, fecretary 

 to the royal fociety. From England, he paffed to Holland, 

 and ftudied for fome months at Leyden. At Amilerdam, 

 he vifited Swammerdam and Ruyfch, with whom he after- 

 wards correfponded. Returning home, he was made pro- 

 feflor ot medicine at Heidelberg, and full phyfician to the 

 eleftor palatine, who conferred on him the title of baron 

 de Bninn in Hamerdein. About the fame tirne, he married 

 one of the daughters of the celebrated Wepfer, and was 

 eleCled honorary member of the academia naturas curiol. in 

 return for fome ingenious differtations which he had com- 

 municated to them. In 16SS, he publiihed " Differtatio 

 Anatomica de Glandula pituitaria," 410. Heidelbr From 

 this time, he became in fuch grea: requeft, for his know- 

 ledge and fuccefs in pratlice, that he was, in fucccfTion, con- 

 fultcd by mod of the princes in Germany. Among others, 

 in 1720, he was ftnt for to Hanover, to attend tlie prince 

 of Wales, afterwards king George II. In 17 15, he pub- 

 liihed at Heidelberg, " Glar.dula Duodeni feu Pancreas fe- 

 cundum deteftum," 4to. which was only an improved edi- 

 tion of his " De Glandulis in Duodeno Inteftino detctlis," 

 which had been before twice printed. There are fome other 

 leffer works, the titles,' and accounts of which are given by 

 Haller, in his Bib. Anat. In the later edition of Wep- 

 fer's works are given diifeftions by our author, of the heads 

 of fome perfons who died of apoplexy, of whom he had had 

 the care. Though early afflifted with gravel, and in the 

 latter part of his life with gout, he continued to attend to 

 the calls of his patients, though living a great dillance from 

 his relidence. When, in his 74th year, he went in great 

 hafte to Munich, to attend the cleftor Maximilian Emanuel, 

 on his return, he was feized with a fever, which, in a {&\v 

 days, put an end to his exiftence, on the 2d of Oftober 

 J727. Haller Bib. Anat. Eloy. Did. Hift. 



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