PUR 



Hurlborn, in Hampfhiie, about the beginning of the i8th 

 century. His education was extremely limited, but he 

 exhibited a flriking proof ot his capacity for learning while he 

 was very young ; for, being prevented by illnefs from attend- 

 ing fchool almoft fix weeks, he applied, by himfelt, during 

 that time, with luch diligence and luccefs to the (tudy ot 

 arithmetic, that upon his return to fchool he was able to 

 explain the procefles of evolution to his mailer, whofe at- 

 tainments had not carried him fo far. At this time of life 

 he exhibited great powers of memory, by committing to 

 it ^welve of the longeft chapters in the bible in as many 

 hours. He was put apprentice to a (hoe-maker, who 

 was alfo a dealer in (heep, and employed Anthony a 

 good deal in looking after his flock. Tiiis was not by any 

 means an irkfome bufinefs, as it afforded him an opportU!ilty 

 for reading the fcriptures, to which he was particularly 

 attached. As he advanced in years, he found tliat his 

 favourite book contained dodtrines that weie very differently 

 interpreted by different perfons, and he was refolved to 

 lludy the Old and New Tellament in their original lan- 

 guages. Having renounced the occupation for which he 

 was originally intended when he was about twenty years 

 of age, he commenced teacher in a fchool, but afterwards 

 removed to London, for the fake of more eaiily acquiring 

 the means of profecuting his iludies. Here he probably 

 refided in 1727, when he publiflicd his work, entitled " The 

 Youth's Delight." While at London he became a Quaker, 

 and officiated among the friends in the charafter of a 

 minifler. He returned to Hurfborn, and refumed his 

 fchool in 1727, and probably continued it for fome time, 

 during which he began to tranflate the books of the Old 

 Teilament, from the original Hebrew. While thus em- 

 ployed, he felt it his duty to become a milTioiiary, and 

 travelled through feveral counties of tlie kingdom, till he 

 came to Stambrook, near Briftol, towards the latter part 

 of the year 1738. Here he refided at the houfe of a 

 maltller, whofe fon he inltruftcd in claffical learning, while 

 he devoted his leifiire to his favourite employment of tranf- 

 lating the fcriptures. In 1 746 he made an attempt to 

 publifh his tranflation of the Old Teftament in numbers ; 

 but for want of encouragement he did not proceed beyond 

 two or three numbers. When he had completed the 

 tranflation of the whole bible, he could find no bookfeller 

 who would embark in the publication. Thus was the 

 labour of thirty years likely to be loll, till Dr. Fothergill 

 made him a prefent of 1000/. for the copy, and took upon 

 himfelf the expence of printing the work. Under his 

 aufpices, it made its appearance in the year 1764, with the 

 title of " A new and literal Tranflation of all the Books 

 of the Old and New Teftament, with Notes critical and 

 explanatory," in 2 vols, folio. It was the author's inten- 

 tion to have publifhed a fecond edition, with various cor- 

 reftions and alterations, but he did not live to accontplifh 

 the defign. He died in 1777, about the age of 75. 

 Purver was defcribed by Dr. Fothergill as " a man of great 

 fimplicity of manners, regular conduft, and a modefl re- 

 ferve : he is fteadily attentive to truth, hates falfehood, and 

 has an unconquerable averfion to vice ; and to crown the 

 portrait, he is not only greatly benevolent to mankind, but 

 has a lively fenfe of the divine attributes, and a profound 

 reverence of, and fubmiflion to, the Supreme Being." 

 Gent. Mag. 



PURVEYANCE. SccPourveyance. 



PURVEYOR. See PouRVEVoK. 



PURVIEW, from the French, pourveu, a gift, grant, 

 provtfion, &c. a term frequently ufed, by iir Edward Coke, 



PUS 



for the body of an adl of jjarliament, or that part which 

 begins with £e it etiaSccl, 8:c. as contradillinguiflied from 

 the preamble. 



The fhitute of 3 Hen. VII. ftand^ upon a preamble and 

 a purview. i 2 Rep. 



PURULENT, PORULRNTUS, in Medidue, fomething 

 mixed with, or partaking of, pus or matter. 



Phthifical people frequently fpit a purulent matter. In 

 a dyfcntery, the ftools are purulent : when there is an 

 ulcer in the reins or bladder, the urine is purulent. 



PURUSHA, in Mythology. See Paku.siia. 



PURUZ, in Geography, a river of La Plata, which rifes 

 about S. lat. 17° 20', taking the name of " Rio Beni," 

 and afterwards called " Aniaru-Mayu," or " I'he Serpent :" 

 from S. lat. 1 2- its coiirfe is not afcertained till it comes 

 to S. lat. 6°, after which it affumes the name of Puruz, 

 and runs into the river of the Amazons, or Maranon, 

 S. lat. 3' 44'. W. long. 45° 6'. Its whole courfe is 

 northerly about 800 miles. 



PUR WAR, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore ; 14 

 miles S. of Sealcot. 



PURYSBURG, a handfonie town of South Carolina, 

 in Beaufort diflrift, which diftrift contains 25,887 in- 

 habitants, on the E. fide of Savannah river, 37 miles from 

 the ocean, and 20 from Savannah. It derives its name 

 from a Swifs, John Peter Pury, who fettled a colony of 

 his countrymen here about the year 1735, with a view to 

 the culture of filk. The mulberry-trees are Hill ftanding, 

 and fome attention is paid to the raifing of filk. The town 

 contains between 40 and 50 dwelling-houfes, and an epif- 

 copal church ; 64 miles W.S.W. of Charleftown. N. lat. 

 32° 23'. W. long. 81° 12'. 



PUS, from -avov, matter, the fluid contained in ab- 

 fceffes, and difcharged from ulcerated furfaces, and fome- 

 times from membranous furfaces which are merely inflamed, 

 and quite free from ulceration, as is illullrated in cafes of 

 gonorrhea, empyema, &c. Pus is formed by a peculiar 

 procefs, which is termed fuppuration, of which we fliall have 

 occafion to fpeak in a future volume of this work. 



In the prefent place, we (hall content ourfelves with in- 

 ferting a few obfervations on the qualities and ufes of pus, 

 chiefly taken from the writings of Mr. Hunter. 



True pus has certain properties, which, when taken 

 fingly, may belong to other fecretions, but which, con- 

 jointly, form the peculiar character of this fluid, -viz. 

 globules iwimming in a fluid, which is coagulable by a 

 folution of fal ammoniac, which no other animal fecretion is, 

 and, at the fame time, a confequence of inflammation. 



The colour and the confidence of pus are the two 

 qualities which tirfl attradl the notice of every, the mofl 

 fuperfjcial, obferver. The colour arifes from the largeft 

 portion of this fluid being compofed of very fmall round 

 bodies, very much like thofe little globules which, fwim- 

 ming in a fluid, make cream. The fluid in which the 

 globules of pus fvvim, we might at firll fuppofe to be the 

 ferum of the blood, for it coagulates with heat, Like the 

 latter fluid. Pus is alfo probably mixed with a fmall quan- 

 tity of coagulating lymph ; as it partly coagulates after it is 

 fecretcd. 



The fluid part of pus, however, is known to have pro- 

 perties which ferum has not. There being a fimilarity be- 

 tween pus and milk, experiments have been made to afcer- 

 tain whether the fluid of pus could be coagulated with the 

 gaftric juice of animals ; but no coagulation could be 

 effefted in this manner : a folution of fal ammoniac made 

 the fluid part of pus coagulate ; but not any other fecretion, 



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