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Egypt is divided by the Turks into thirty-nine cachef- 

 iccls, or governments. 



CACHEMIRE, in Geography. See Cashmere. 



CACHEO, a town of Negroland in Afriea, featcd on the 

 river St. Domingo, or Cacheo, and belonging to the Por- 

 tugucfe, who have three forts, and carry on a great trade there 

 in flaves and wax. N. lat. 12° j;'. W. h)ng. 16° 20'. Tlie 

 river divides into feveral large branches before it falls into the 

 ocean. 



CACHET, Christopher, mB'iography, born at Neiif- 

 chateau in Lorraine, tiie 26th of November 1572, received 

 the rudiments of his education among the Jefnits. To im- 

 prove himlelf further, he vifittd the principal ftates of Italy, 

 hut purpofing to pradife medicine, he fi>;ed his refidence at 

 Padua, and after finiOiing his (Indies there, he fettled at 

 Nancy, where he arrived at the highcft honours in his pro- 

 felTion, being phyfician and aulic counfellor to four of his 

 fovereigns, as appears by his epitaph, under his portrait, in 

 the houfe of the Cordeliers at Nancy, where he was buried 

 Sept. JO, 1624. 



Ut erat bono publico natus, 



Lucem hteris, nomcn libris, laud'in fuis, Patrice gloriam, 



famam fibi, 



Principibus fxpe fahitem pepcrit. 



Sereninimis ducibus 



Carolo jtio. Henrico 2do. Francifco 2do. Carole 4to. 

 Archiater et confdiarius. 

 He was author of feveral works : " Controverfia: Theoricos 

 Prafticae, in primam Aphorifmorum Hippocratis Seilio- 

 nem. Opus in duas partes divifum, Philofopliis ac Medi- 

 cis perutile et pcrjucundum. In quo quscumque ad Ve- 

 nsefedlionem, Purgationem, et Vidtus Rationcm perti- 

 nent, enodantur, &c." Tulli Leucorum, 161 2, Svo. " Pan- 

 dora Bacchica furens, Medicis Armis oppugnata ;" Tulli, 

 1614, i2mo. " Apologia dogmatica in Heruietici cujufdam 

 anonymi fcriptum de curatione Calculi, in qua Chymi- 

 carum Ineptiarum vanicas exploditur ;" Tull. 1615, Svo. 

 " Vrai etaifure Prefervatif dela Petite Veroleel Rougeole;" 

 1617, Svo. The only art here taught is to keep children 

 carefully from all infecied places. Haller. Bib. Med. Eloy. 

 Dia. Hift. 



CACHETUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Afia, in 

 the kingdom of Pontns, near the town of Heraclea, accord- 

 ing to Diodorus Siculus. 



CACHEXIA, a term applied by the older writers in 

 Med'tc'im, to denote thofe conditions of the body, from what- 

 ever caufes they may arife, in which the funftions are im- 

 perfeclly performed, and the complexion unhealthy. It is 

 derived from xaxn,-, lad, and ifi'--, haUi. The cachectic Rate 

 of the conilit'.ition was fuppofed to depend upon an acrimo- 

 ny, or fome other morbid change in tlie fluids of the body ; 

 and this feems to have been chiefly inferred from the change 

 of complexion. Hence Van Swieten obferves, that " expert 

 phyficians always examine carefully into the appearance of 

 the fliin, in thole parts where the integuments are thin, and 

 the veiTels he expofed, when they wi(h to know the condi- 

 tion of the blood and humours." } 1170. Thefe hypo- 

 thefes, however, are now confidered as unfounded. But 

 upon whatever circumftances the cachedlic flate depends, it 

 is obvious, that it occurs in all inftances of flow convalef- 

 cence from acute and chronic difeafes in general, and ac- 

 companies all lingering affeiflions of the vifcera and other 

 parts ; and therefore that it is efTentially different in its na- 

 ture in different inftances. Hence it is itnpofTible to give a 

 general hiftory of it, as of a fpecific difeafe ; or to enumerate 

 the remedies which may be fnccefsfully employed for its 

 cure. V/here it is merely a debility, confequent on forae 



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fevcre difeafe, moderate cxercife, a light nutritious diet, 

 and tonic medicines are indicated. But where it is a con- 

 comitant of fome organic afTeflion, the nature of that muft 

 determine the nature of the remedy to be adeptcd. 



In the more accurate language of the prefent day, this 

 vague and indefinite term is feldom employed. But it has 

 been ufed with great propriety by Sauvages and Cullen to 

 denote a particular clafs of difeafes, in their rcfpeftive fyf- 

 terns of nofology ; including thofe complaints in which the 

 general habit is affeded, and a change of coinplcxioii, with 

 emaciation or morbid enlargement, are chara£lerifl.ic fymp- 

 toms. Such are dropfy, jaundice, rickets, &c. 



CACHIBONA, or Clyde, in Geography, a river of the 

 ifland of Dominica, which runs into the lea on the eaft 

 coaft, a little to the north of Halifax bay. 



CACHICAME, in Zoology, Buffon's name of the Pig- 

 headed Armad'tUo ; Dafyptis no-veincindus of I-.inni\is. 



CACHIMAYO, ni Geography, a large river of South 

 America, in Peru, which falls into the ocean within 2 

 leagues of I^a Plata. 



CACHIQITE Toiver and Bay, are fitnated on the coa!t 

 of Barbary, m the Mediterranean, nearly W. from Algiers 

 6 or 7 leagues. 

 CACHOLONG, in Mineralogy. See Chalcedony. 

 CACHOPS Sands, \nGeDgraphy,dire tworemarkable banks, 

 ■which contradt the channel of the mouth of the Tagus, at 

 its influx into the fea, below Lifbon. 



CACHORRODOMATO, in Zoology, the rame by 

 which the Portuguefe in America call the Taiibi ; a crea- 

 ture faid to refenible the OpoflTum in many refpeds, and by 

 fome fufpedted to be the male of that creature. 



CACHRUS, ill Entomology, a fpecies of Papilio, {Pleif 

 Jus) with entire yellowifh wings, and a common fnfcous border 

 fpotted with white. Fa'br. &c. This inhabits South America. 

 CACHRYS, in Botany, nsc^fv?, Gr. The word is ufed 

 in various fenfes by different authors, and has been the oc- 

 cafion of great perplexity to the grammarians and commen- 

 tators. In Theophraftus (lib. iii. cap. 7.) it feems to de- 

 note the catkins of the oak, wallnut, pine, &c. by other 

 writers it is ufed, fometimes for the root, fometimes for the 

 feed of the plant to which modern botanifts have given the 

 fame name, and fometimes for the plant itfelf. It alfo figni- 

 fied the feeds of roailed barley ; and fome have fuppofed that 

 the plant derived its name from the refemblance of its feeds 

 to thofe of barley. (See the notes on Theophraftus by Con- 

 ftantine and Bodeus a Stapel, p. 139, 140.) Tournef. Inil. 

 p. ,325. P/j/c 127. Raii Melh. Plant. 47. Linn. gen. ^4^. 

 Schrcb. 474. A¥illd. 538. Gxn. 808. PI. 140. JufT. 

 p. 223. Vent. vol. iii. p. 2'). Libanotis Cachryophorus, 

 Raii Hift. Plant, p. 424. ChCs and order, pen/andria digj- 

 nia. ' riat. ord. Umbellat.t, Linn. Umbcllifer.e, JufT. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. univcrfal and partial umbels manifold : 

 univerfal and partial involucres, many-leaved, linear-lanceo- 

 late : perianth proper, fcarcely difcernible. Cor. flowers all 

 uniform : petals five, lanceolate, almoft upright, equal, flat- 

 tifh. Slam, filaments five, fimple, the length of the corolla: 

 anthers fimple. P//?. germ top-(haptd, inferior : fiyles two, 

 inferior, the length of the corolla. Peric. fruit fomewhat 

 egg-fliaped, obtufe, very large, fplitting in two. Seeds Iw/o, 

 very large, very convex on one fide, flat on the other; of a 

 fungous or fpungy fubftance, each enclofing a fohtary ovate- 

 oblong kernel. 



EfT. Ch. fruit fomewhat egg-(haped, with a thick inteo-u- 

 njent of a fpungy fubftance. 



Sp. I. C. odonlalgica, Linn. Sup. iSr. Pallas It. vol. iii. 



p. 270. t. g. f. I, 2, j. Vol. V. p. io5. PI 4. French 



tranflation. Gaert. vol. ii. p. 274. PL 140. f. j. " Ra- 



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