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RINGENTHAL, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in 

 the circle of Erzgebirg ; l mile N. oi Mitwcyda. 



RINGERIKE, a town of Norway ; 24'miles N.N.E. 

 of Chriftiania. 



RINGES, in Rural Economy, a provincial term, figni- 

 fying rows of hay, mown corn, quicks, &c. 



RINGKIOBING, in Geography, a town of Denmark, 

 on the coaft of a large gulf of the North fea, to which it 

 gives name. The inhabitants are almoft wholly employed 

 in trading to Holland and Norway. The bay affords 



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In the church-yard is a plain (tone, 10 the memory of dame 

 Alicia Lifle, whom the blood-thinly Jeffreys condemned to 

 be executed in her old age, on ir charge of harbouring 

 known rebels in her manfion at Moyles-Court. This manfion 

 is ftill (landing, furrounded by a very pleafant, but fmall, 

 park. Its former polfeffors, the Lifles, were originally 

 (ettled in the I lie of Wight, where they had large eftates, 

 and whence they derived their name. Colonel John Lide 

 hufband to the above-mentioned Alicia, was one of the 

 judges who pafl'ed fentence on king Charles I. and alfo 



plenty of good fifli, particularly oyfters. It is of a good one of the lords commiflioners of the great feal during the 



protectorate of Cromwell. On the eve of the reftoration 

 he fled to the continent, was profcribed by the parliament of 

 Charles II., and aflaflinated at Laufanne, in Switzerland, by 

 three villains, hired for that purpofe by fome of the royal 

 family, or their friends. Beauties of England and Wale6, 

 vol. vi. by John Britton, F.S.A. and E. W. Braylc y, 

 Lond. 1805. 



depth, and fecure, except at the entrance, which is rendered 

 dangerous by fand-banks ; 48 miles N.W. of Ripen. N. lat. 

 56= 2'. W. long. 8° 18'. 



RINGLEBEN, a town of Saxony, in the principality 

 of Eifenach ; 6 miles N. of Erfurt. N. lat. 5i°6'. E. long. 

 II 2'. 



RINGO's Town, a town of America, in Hunterden 

 county, New Jerfey ; 15 miles N.W. of Princeton. 



RINGSTED, a town of Denmark, in the ifland of 

 Zealand, anciently a large city, but reduced by fires into 

 a fmall town : but it is Itill famous for its court of judica- 

 ture, to which lies an appeal from almoft all the courts of 

 Zealand, whereas no appeal lies from this but to the fu- 

 preme court at Copenhagen ; 29 miles S.W. of Copenha- 

 gen. N. lat. 55 28'. E. long. 1 1° 4.8'. 



RINGWOOD, a town of America, in Hunterden 

 county ; 25 miles N. of Morriltown, containing 2605 inha- 

 bitants. 



Rikgwosd, a market-town and parifh in the hun- 



RINGWORM, in Medicine, a popular appellation, ap- 

 plied to various fuperficial affections of the (kin, which 

 aflume fomewhat of a circular form. But the fact is, that 

 almoft all the partial cutaneous difeafes have more or Iefs a 

 tendency to the annular figure, and rife in fomewhat irregu- 

 lar patches, approximating to the oval or the circle, which 

 isfometimes perfeft, and fomctimes broken. It is only by 

 referring to an intelligible nomenclature, fuch as that pro- 

 pofed by the late Dr. Willan, that any difcrimination can b? 

 clearly made in the varieties of thefe eruptions. If we ex- 

 amine thefe ringworms according to this fyltem, we (hall 

 find, that there are feveral difeafes, to which the term is 



dred of Ringvvood, New Foreft, weft divifion, county of applicable, and daily applied, and confequently the fame 



Southampton, England, is fituated on the eaftern bank of 

 the river Avon, at the diftance of 14 miles W. by S. from 

 Southampton, and 90 miles S.W. by W. from London. 

 This town is of great antiquity, and is fuppofed by Cam- 

 den to have been the Regnum of the Romans, which others, 

 however, have fixed, with greater probability, at Chichefter, 

 in Suffex. But whatever it may have been during the Ro- 

 man government, it unqueftionably attained confiderable im- 

 portance in the time of the Saxons ; and in Domefday book, 

 it is eltimatcd at a higher value than Thuinam, or Chrift- 

 church. 



remedies recommended for their cure, which are, neverthe- 

 lefs, very different in their nature, and therefore require 

 very different modes of treatment. Thus there is a circular 

 eruption, which confills of patches of pimples, the lichen 

 circumfcriptus of Dr. Willan ; even the fcaly lepra occurs 

 in circles of various fizes, and is fometimes called ringworm: 

 the pujlular difeafe, called impetigo figurata, or moift tet- 

 ter, and the veficulir eruption termed herpes circinatus, 

 (fee Dr. Bateraan's Praft. Synopf. of Cutau. Difeafes,) are 

 alfo diitinguifhed by their circular form, and it is to thefe 

 two laft that the term ringworm is mod popularly applied. 



Ringwood is noted for its breweries of ftrong beer and And above all, the contagious difeafe of the fcalp, the por- 



ale. A market is held here on Wednefday, weekly ; 

 and there are iairs on the loth of July, and nth of De- 

 cember. The petty fefiions for New Foreft, weft divifion, 

 are holden in this town. The unfortunate duke of Mon- 

 mouth is very generally dated to have been taken in a field 

 near Ringwood, after his defeat at Sedgemoor ; but this 

 (tatement is erroneous, that prince having been actually 

 lerzed in the woodlands in DorfetfTiire. According to the 

 parliamentary returns of 181 1, the town and parifh con- 

 tain- d 658 houfes, and a population of 3269 perfons. 



North from Ringwood is the village of Ellingham, where 

 formerly was a religious houfe, founded by William de Sa- 

 lariis, in the reign of Henry II., and appropriated as a cell to 

 the abbey of St. Saviour le Vieompte, in Normandy. When 

 the alien priories in this country were difiolved, Henry VI. 

 granted Ellingham and its pollellions to the college at Eton. 

 Some remains of the buildings of this eftablifhment are 

 fuppofed to form the nave of the prefent church, and the 

 opinion is certainly not improbable, as it is more ancient 

 than the reft of the fabric. The altar-piece here is a painting 

 of the Day of Judgment, prefented to the parifh by the late 

 lord Windfor, whole ancellor, brigadier Windfor, brought 

 it from Port St. Mary, in the bay of Cadiz, among the 

 trophies of an expedition againlt that city in the year 1702. 



rigo fcutulata, is Go diftiuctly circular in its form, as to be 

 diitinguifhed from the other fpecies of the fame diforder, bv 

 the appellation of ringworm, or by fome the ringworm of 

 the fcalp. See the fame Synoplis, ord. v. gen. 2. See alfo 

 Pokrigo, Lichex, Herpes, &c. above. 



The general treatment recommended for ringworms bv the 

 vulgar, is the application of common ink ; and this, by its 

 aftringency, which is (light, may be partially ufeful in the 

 decline of the herpetic ringworm, above-mentioned, or in 

 the mildeft forms of that of the fcalp : but it will be cer- 

 tainly injurious if applied to the moill letter, or to the lichen 

 in its early flage ; and the (time effect can be produced by 

 fimilar aflringents, in a more manageable and lei's dirty 

 form ; as by folutions of the fulphate of iron or zinc in 

 rofe-watcr or other dillilled water. But in fad, the ring- 

 worm of the fcalp requires much more active remedies, on 

 the one hand; and on the other, the herpetic ringworm dif- 

 appears in a (hort time fpontaneoufly ; fo that the remedy 

 may be deemed in both cafes nfelefs. It is obvious, then, 

 that difeafes, which are puflular, Icaly, veficular, and pa- 

 pular refpectivcly ; fome of which are inflamed, and others 

 not ; fome contagious, and others not ; iomc difappearing 

 fpontaneoufly, and others refilling the molt ar/t.ve applica- 

 tions ; fome connected with difurdcr «f the cenltitution, and 



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