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The h\\lk'-i\ is faid to have been firll introduced by ^fchy- 

 liK : It was of a quadiangtilar form, and mi-rlit be worn ui- 

 diffrently on eillier leg. Its fok was made fo thick, as, by 

 means of it, men of ordinary Ibture mi^ht be raifid to the 

 pitch and ckvation of the heroes tliey perfonated : in which 

 it was dilUnguilhed from the foclc, worn in comedy ; which 

 was a low, popular (hoe. By aid of this appendage, the lla- 

 ture of the liajjic aclors was frequently increafed to four cu- 

 bits, or about" fix Enirhdi feet and half an inch, the height 

 of Hercules and the moll ancient heroes. The bu(l<i!is raifcd 

 ihcm four or five inclus ; while gauntlets lengthened their 

 arms ; and their brea'l, fides, and every part of the body, 

 vcrc rendered apparently thicker in propovticjn. 



Dempller obferves, that the buflcin was not confined to 

 aflors only, but girls likewife ufed it to raife their height ; 

 and travellers and hunters to defend themfelvts fiom the 

 mire, &c. 



As tlie bu.liin w?s the dillinguilliing mark of trajjcdy on 

 the ftage, we find it in clatT.c authors frtquenlly ufed to fig- 

 nify " tragedy itfclf," and to exprefs Hrong aid vehement 

 declamation or lofty llile, which was ufually affefted by thefe 

 attora of culofTal figure, 



BUSKY, in G«?ra/.Z.j. See Buck. 



BUSLEIDEN,' John, in Biography, a native of Arlon, 

 in Luxemburg, became mailer of the requells in the court of 

 CharUsV. and counfellor to the fovereign council of Mechlin. 

 He was alfo employed in tmbafiies to pope Julius II. and 

 the kings I'rancis I. and Henry VIII. As a man of litera- 

 ture he was dillingniflied, and he was an intimate friend of 

 feveral learned men, particularly of Erafmus and fir Thomas 

 More. He founded, in the Univerfity of Louvain, the col- 

 lege of the three tongueF, for teaching Latin, Greek, and 

 Hebrew. On his journey to Spain, in 1517, he fell fick, 

 and died at Bourdeaux. The only piece of his writing is a 

 letter prefixed to More's Utopia. Gen. Di£l. 



BUSODRA, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 

 in the Arabian Irak; 90 miles N. W. ofBaflora. 



BUSS, in Navigal'wn, a fmall fliip, ufed by the Englifh 

 and Dutch in the herring-fifliery, which fee. 



The word is originally Flemifh, luis, or buys, which fig- 

 nifics the fame. 



The fliip has three (hort mads, each in one piece. On each 

 iscarrieda fquare fail, and fometimes a top-fail above the main- 

 fail. In fine weather are added a fort of ftudding fail to the 

 lower fails, and a driver. Occafionally is alfo added a jib for- 

 ward, upon a fmall bowfprit or fpar. To (hoot their nets, the 

 feamen lower the main and fore-mafts, which fold on deck 

 by large hinges, and (low aft upon crotches. The bufs is 

 commonly from forty to feventy tons burthen. It has two 

 apartments, one forward, and the other aft ; the former of 

 which is ufed as a kitchen. Every bufs has a mailer, an 

 aflirtant, a mate, and feamen in proportion to the fize of the 

 veffel. The mader commands in chief, and without his ex- 

 prefs orders the nets can neither be cad nor taken up ; the 

 affiftant has the command after him ; and the mate is next 

 in order, whofe bufinefs is to fee the feamen manage their 

 rigging in a proper manner ; to attend to thofe who draw in 

 their nets, and thofe who kill, gut, and cure the herrings, 

 as they are taken out of the fea. The feamen generally 

 engage by the voyage ; and their provifions confid com- 

 monly of bifcuit, oat-meal, and dried or fait and frefh fi(h. 



Buss, Btijfa, is alfo the name of a large fort of veflel of 

 war, in ufe in the middle age, fpoken of by antiquaries and 

 hidorians under the feveral denominations of buja, btifcia, 

 burcia, iutza, lucca, and buc'ia. 



BUSSCHOFF, Herman, m Biography, a Dutch phy- 

 fician, was born at Utrecht, in the beginning of the 15th cen- 



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tury, and rcfided many years at Batavia, in the Ead Indies ; 

 and while in that country, was induced, he fays, fo make 

 ufe of an Indian doMrefs, to cure him of the gout, by burn, 

 ing little conical pellets of moxa (the pith of a fpecies of 

 artemifia,) on the parts affcaed ; a mode of treatment in 

 that and various other complaints, in great repute in China 

 and Japan. Tae operation lalls, he fays, about half an 

 hour, and is attended with very little pain. It leaves fmall 

 fears on the parts, which in a few days are digedid out, and 

 the little ulcers that remain heal under any common nppli- 

 cations. As foon as the operation was over, he fell into a 

 profound deep, which laded twenty-fo.ur hours. On waking 

 he was entirely free from the pain of the gout, and the 

 fwelling and tcndernefs of the parts which remained were 

 diffipated in a few days. A fecond attack of the gout, 

 which occurred fome years after, was cured in the fame man- 

 ner. He had known, he fays, fchirrous tumours, nodes, and 

 lethargies relieved by the fame application. Having col- 

 leflcd accounts of a fuffi-.-ient number of cures effefted in 

 this way, he wrote a fmall treatife on the fubjetl, in the 

 Dutch language, and fent the manufcript to Holland to be 

 printed. He alfo fent a parcel ut the moxa, and of matches 

 made of fandlcwood, which the Indians ufe to light the pel- 

 lets with. The book was printed in 1675, at which time 1 

 fir William Temple was ambafl"ador at the Hague, and on 

 his being attacked with the gout (it was his fird fit) he was 

 eafily induced to try the remedy, which procured him the 

 promifcd cafe. The following year he pubhdied an eday on 

 the cure of the gout by moxa, with an accoimt of the me- 

 thod of nfing it, and the benefit he had received from it. 

 The fame year Buffchoff's book was tranflated into Englidi, 

 on the recommendation, fir William fays, of the profcdbrs 

 of Grediam College, but no notice is taken of them in the 

 title or preface to the tranflation. It was pubiiflied in i 2mo. 

 with chirurgical obfcrvations by Henry Van Roonhuyfen. 

 The remedy became for a time extremely popular here ; but, 

 not being found to anfwer the expeflations that had been 

 raifed, it is long fallen into difufe. It is probable, however, 

 that in recent cafes, and in conditutions not broken by in- 

 temperance, fome benefit mi;fht accrue from the application. 

 Haller. Bib. Med The Author's Preface, &c. ^ 



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

 partment of the Allier, and didridl of La Palifle ; 5 miles 

 S. E. of Cad'el. 



BUSSETTO, a town of Italy, and capital of a fmall dif- 

 trift in the duchy of Placenza ; 8 miles S. E. of Cremona. 



BUSSI, Bussis":!, or Boississi, an iHand of Africa, in ■ 

 the Atlantic, near the idand of BilTao. 1 



BUSSIERE-.5ar//7, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton in the 

 didrift of Nontron ; 8 miles N. of it. The place contains 

 1,230, and the canton 7,049 inhabitants: the territory in- 

 cludes 150 kiliometres, and 9 communes. 



BussiERE-Ga/(2«</t', a town of France, in the department 

 of the Upper Vienne, and didrifl of Limoges; j leagues 

 S. W. of it. 



BussiERE-Purffu/Hf, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Upper Vienne, and didrift of Bellac ; io miles N.W. 

 of it. 



BUSSIERES, John de, in Biography, a diftinguiflied 

 writer of France, was born in 1607, at Ville-Franche, in 

 Beaujolois, and entered among the Jefuits. His poems, 

 written in French, are forgotten ; but his Latin poems, firft 

 printed at Lyons, in 1658, i 2mo, arc (till read. Of thefe 

 the principal is " Scanderbeg," an heroic poem in 8 books ; 

 befides which there are '' Rhaea Delivered," fome Idylls and 

 Eclogues. Buflieres likewife wrote a " Hiftory of France," 

 6 2 vols. 



