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the part of the Dulparians, and repeated defeats and fccere 

 loITcs rjllaincd bv llie Komans, Adriaiiople was iKfitged 

 :;3d taUtn, A. 1). 9-'2 ; ard prepaiatior.s were made Or 

 befi-j^ing Coiiftaiiliiuiple. But, before the clofe of llie fol- 

 lowi.g year, a.i interview took place btlwecn Simeon the 

 king of the Bnlj^aii-iiis, and Romanus the eallcrn emperor, 

 and" a peace was concluded bct«-<:tn them. In the year 

 070 l';e Ruin or RofTi, who inhabited the prefcnt Podoha, 

 invaded Bulgaria and ravaged the cour.try ; but havmg m- 

 veiled Adrianople with a powerful army of more than 

 3c8,:co men, they were defeated ard cut to pieces by 

 a body of 1 2,oco Romauj. I'he Btilgariaus fuhmittcd to 

 Zimifcer, their deliverer ; but upon his death, A. D. i;;^, 

 they revolted from tlie Romans and renewed tlitir ufual ra. 

 vages of their provinces. After a long and doubtful llnig- 

 gU between the Bjlgarians and the emperor Biilil, he at kill 

 pievailed, and, in the 44th year of his reign, A. D. iCiS, 

 reduced Buljaria into ihe form of a Roman p-ovmee. Fiom 

 this time t1:e'BuIgarians remained in fubj .-flion to the emperors 

 of ConllantinooL-, whom th.-y powerfully affilled both agai:.ft 

 the Latins and the Turks, and were, on that account, al- 

 lowed to chufe a king of their own nation, who neverthe- 

 Icfs owned himfclf a 'vaffal of the empire. The Bulgarians, 

 l-.owtver, revolted again in the reign of If.ac Angelus, 

 A.D. 11S6. In 127^, Stephen, the fourth ki;itg of 

 Hingary, having vanquidied the prince of Bulgaria and 

 cut his whole army in pieces, obliged the BulgaHans to 

 acknowledge him as their fovcreign. Vv -th the affiaaiice 

 of the Greek emperors they fhook off the Hungarian yoke ; 

 but allLmpting, in l ^6g, to recover Adrianople, which 

 had bee« taken by the Turks, they were totally defeated 

 by Amurath I. ; and Bajazet, who fixceeded Amurath, 

 made an abfolute couqueit of the whole country in Ijn^ 

 ;i:id reduced it to a province of the Turkldi empire, in 

 which Hate it has continued ever fincc. Anc. Un. Hi!L 

 vol. xvii. Gibbon's liift. Decl. and Fall of the Roman 

 Emp. vol. vii, ix, x, xi. 



BULGARIAN L^i/^^ua^e, the fame with the Scla- 

 TONMC, which fte. 



BULGNEVILLE, in Geography, a town of France, m 

 the department of the Vofges, and chief place of a canton 

 in the diiliici of Neufchateau, .5? leagues fouth of it. The 

 town contains 9^5, and the canton lO.aSj inhabitants. 

 The territory comprehends 262 i kiliometres and 27 com- 

 munes. . . 



BULIA, orBuLis, in jliideM Geography, a maritime 

 town of Greece, in the Plioeide, lituate towards the gulf 

 of Corinth, near the frontiers of Bccotia. It had two tem- 

 ples, ovc of Bacchus and another of Diana ; the ilatues of 

 which were formed ot wood. 



BULIMIA, in JlLificine, a term fignifying excelTiie 

 hunger, from fey, a particle denoting cxcefs, and Xi/zi;, 

 hu"ger. It is alfo called fames canina, f^imes lupina, dog's 

 appetite, wolf's appetite, &c. This fymptom occurs in 

 cafes where the food is not retained long c-.'ough i-.i the 

 rtomach to be digelled, as in cafes of habitual vomiting, and 

 in lieutery ; alfo where the aliment, duly prepared or coii- 

 cofted in the llomach, is neverthclcfs but I'eantily conveyed 

 into the circulation, as in the cafe of worms, and obllructiou 

 of the mefenteric glands ; and it is faid that this fymptom 

 occurs where much acidity is prefent in the alimentary canal. 

 Sauvages, with his ufual fecundity, has enumerated fcven 

 different fpecies of bulimy ; but in moll of the inllauces 

 which he has mentioned, it is rather to be regarded as a 

 concomitant of other diford^rs, than as a dillindl and fpecific 

 affettion. Ruyfeh gives an inllance of this complaint, 

 which was conoetfied sviih a dilatation of the pylorus, in 



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confrquence of which the food (lipped through the llomach 

 into the inn ftines, before there wa^* time fordigelHon to take 

 place ; and it is recorded by Lieutand, that upon opening 

 the body of a patient who had died of a difordtr, in which 

 a voracious appetite was a leading fymptom, he difojvered a 

 preternatu:al termination of the dudus chokdochus in the 

 llomach. In this cafe the bile effufed into tlie ftomach 

 feems to have kept up a conilant irritation in that organ, 

 and to have Simulated tlie llomach to exptl the ingella be- 

 fore they could be duly afted upon by the principal agent 

 in the work of digTilion, the gallric fluid. 



From thefe obfervalions it is evident that the plan of 

 treatment mull be varitd, according to the diverlity of the 

 morbid conditions with which it is conuccled. Ttins, when 

 it rs the confequeuce of an immediate rejtct'on of the food 

 by vomiting, the irritability of the llomach Hiculd be coun- 

 tcrafted by mild gelatinous food, by opiates, tonics, &c. 

 aided by ftimv.lant ep'thems, and other topical applications. 

 At the fame time nutritive enemata ftiould be injefted into the 

 intelUnes. In like manner, when it is the confiqntnce of 

 the food pafFing off too rapidly by (lool (as in lieutery), the 

 remedies adapted to that condition of the body fhould be 

 reforted to. (See Lientery.) If it proceed from worms, 

 calomel, jalap, cowitch, and other anthelmintics, fhould be 

 prefcribed ; if from mefenteric obllruition, rhubarb, neutral 

 falts, and afterwards chalybeatts ; and, laltly, when it arifcs 

 from acidity in the llomach and inteftines, bitters and ab- 

 foibents fliould be given. 



After this view of the various caufes of bulimy, and of 

 the treatment as adapted to each of tliofe caufcs, we fhall 

 proceed to notice fome remarkable aud well-authenticated 

 inllances of this affetlion. In 1700 there lived at Stanton, 

 feven miles from Bury, a labouring man of middle age, who 

 for many days together had fuch au inordinate appetite that 

 he would eat up an ordinary leg of veal, roalled, at a meal. 

 He would eat fow-thilUes, and various other herbs, as 

 greedily as cattle are wont to do ; and all he could get was 

 little enough to fatisfy his hunger. He voided feveral long 

 worms. This cafe is related by Dr. Burroughs, in the 2 2d 

 vol. of the Phil. Tranf. Two other cafes are recorded iu 

 the 43d vol. of the fame Tranfaftions, one by Dr. Mortimer, 

 the other by Dr. Cookfon. The fubjefts of this affeflion 

 were in both inftances boys. The firil of them was 12 

 years old, and lived at Blade Barnfley, in Yorklhire. His 

 appetite was fo ravenous, that if he was not fupplied with- 

 food when he craved it, he would gnaw the very flefh off his 

 own bones. When awake he was conllantly dcvouriiig. 

 Nothing paffcd his ilymach ; it was always thrown up again. 

 In the fpace of fix days he devoured 3S4 lbs. of liquid and 

 folid food. The other boy was 10 years old, and had been 

 ftized with a fever about ij months before, which continued 

 for a fortnight, and was followed by conilant vomitings. 

 As in the former cafe, fo in this, the food was no fooner 

 fwallowed than thrown up again. In the fpace of fix days 

 this boy devoured 371 lbs. of meat and drink, befides I lb. 

 10 oz. of fait. After more than a twelvemonth from the 

 firll attack, he died greatly emaciated. 



In the third vol. of the Memoirs of the Medical Society 

 of London, is inferted the hillory of a cafe of bulimy, ac- 

 companied with vomiting, wherein 379 lbs. of meat and 

 drink were fwallowed in the fpace of fix days, yet the patient 

 loft flefh rapidly. A cure was cffefted by giving food boiled 

 down to a jelly, frequently, and in fmall quantities. In this 

 form the food was retained, and the body being duly fupplied 

 with nourifliment, the llomach and rell of the fyllem reco- 

 vered their proper tone and energy. But the moll extra- 

 ordinary inftance of bulimy which perhaps ever occwred, i» 



