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RUE 



goddefs Parvati, confidered then as the fakti or energy 

 of her lord Siva, in his form of Rudra. ( See thofe feveral 

 articles; alfo R.AUDRI.) In this character ihe is fometimes 

 called the patronefs of pregnant women. (See Idita, 

 Ilita, andlnTHYA.) She is invoked under the appellation 

 of " Rudrani the beloved of Siva," in the article Lakshmi 

 of this work. 



RUDSTAKES, in Agriculture, a provincial term ap- 

 plied to the itakes to which cattle are tied in the ftall. 



RUDTSDORF, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in 

 the circle of Chrudim ; nine miles E. of Leutmifchl. 



RUE, Pierre de la, in Biography, an ecclefiaftical 

 compofer in the firft (lage of correct counterpoint. He was 

 contemporary with Jofquin, and one of the compofrrs for 

 the papal chapel during the pontificate of Sixtus IV. who 

 reigned from 147 1 to 1484. De la Rue, or as he is called 

 by writers in Latin, Petrus Platenfis, was one of the molt 

 voluminous compofers of this early period. What country 

 gave him birth, is now difficult to afcertain ; Walther calls 

 him a Netherlander ; Glareanus, a Frenchman ; others fup- 

 pofe him to have been a Spaniard. It is, however, certain 

 that he was in high favour with prince Albert, and princefs 

 Ifabella, of the Low Countries ; that a work under his name 

 was publifhed at Antwerp, with this title : " El Parnaffo 

 Efpanol de Madrigales y Villancicos a quatro, cinco y feis 

 voces ;" beiides maifes and motets to Latin words ; and that 

 he was a very learned contrapuntift. 



Many of his compofitions for the church are flill extant 

 in the mufeum collection of mafles and motets, fome of which 

 were publifhed as early as the year 1503, immediately after 

 the invention of mufical types. 



Rue, Charles de la, a learned French Benedictine 

 monk, was born at Corbie, in Picardy, in the year 

 1684. He took the vows at the age of 19, in the 

 abbey of Meaux, having already given evidence that he 

 pofleffed a ftudious difpofition, by the progrefs which he 

 had made in the languages, and in the belles lettres. In 

 17 1 2 the learned Montfaucon admitted him into his friend- 

 (hip, became the guide of his fludies, and freely communi- 

 cated to him the flores of knowledge which he poffeffed. 

 So well did the pupil avail himfelf of thefe advantages, that 

 he foon became a very ufeful afliftant to his mailer in his 

 learned labours. In 17 13, Montfaucon had publifhed the 

 remains of Origen's " Hexapla," and de la Rue was fixed 

 on to give a complete edition of that learned father's works, 

 with the exception of the Hexapla. In 1733 he publifhed 

 the two firlt volumes, with proper prolegomena, and many 

 ufeful as well as very learned notes. The other volumes 

 were publifhed by his nephew Vincent, whom he had affoci- 

 ciated with himfelf in his work, after the death of Charles, 

 which happened in 1739. The manner in which the third 

 and fourth volumes of this great work were executed, fhews 

 that the nephew was fully adequate to the talk confided to 

 him. This edition is entitled " Origenis Opera omnia, 

 qua; Groece vel Latine extant, et ejus nomine circumferentur, 

 ex variis Editionibuset Codicibus Colle&a, recenfita, Latine 

 verfa at Annotationibus illullrata." Vincent de la Rue died 

 in the year 1762. Moreri. 



Rue, in Botany. See Ruta. 



Rue, in the Materia Medica, the ruta graveolens, or com- 

 mon rue, has a ftrong, ungrateful odour, and a bitter, hot, 

 penetrating tafte ; the leaves are fo acrid as to irritate and 

 inflame the {kin, if they be much handled ; and in its natural 

 and uncultivated (late, it is faid to poflefs thefe qualities 

 more powerfully. Its virtues are extracted both by water 

 and rectified fpirit, but more powerfully by the latter. On 

 .^nfpill'ating the fpirituous tin&ure, very little of its flavour 



rifes with the menftruum ; moll of the aftive parts of the 

 rue being concentrated in the extraft. In diflillat on with 

 water, an elfential oil feparates, which is ot a yello.vifh or 

 brownifh colour, a moderately acrid talte, and penetrating 

 fmell ; the decodtion, infpiflated, yields a moderately >varm, 

 pungent, and bittenlh extract. The feeds and capfules 

 contain more oil than the leaves. From the experiments of 

 Beaune it appears, that the recent plant contains but a very 

 fmall portion of eflential oil : thus, from 21 lbs. of the leaves 

 he fcarcely obtained a drachm, while 10 lbs. of the feeds 

 yielded two ounces. 



Rue was much ufed by the ancients, who afcribed to it 

 many excellent qualities. Hippocrates commends it as a 

 refolvent and diuretic, and attributes to it the power of refill- 

 ing contagion, and the action of other kinds of poifons ; fo 

 that it was employed with this intention by Mithridates (fee 

 Plin. N. Hilt. 1. 28. c. 8. ) : this quality, though allowed by 

 Boerhaave, is now generally difcredited. (Cullen's Mat. 

 Med. vol. ii. p. 365.) According to Bergius, it is " akxi- 

 teria, pellens, emmenagoga, fudorifera, rubefaciens." It is, 

 however, acknowledged to be a powerful aftringent, and, 

 like other medicines of the fetid kind, to poflefs attenuating, 

 deobflruent, and antifpafmodic powers, and to be peculiarly 

 adapted to phlegmatic habits, or weak and hyflerical conlli- 

 tutions, buffering from retarded or obttrutted fecretions. A 

 ftrong infulion of it, exhibited per anum, has been found of 

 great fervice in relieving the convulfions of infants, arifing 

 from flatulenca and other iirteflinal irritations. It is em- 

 ployed by fome as a tea, and alfo externally in difcutient and 

 antifeptic fomentations. Among the common people, the 

 leaves are fometimes taken with treacle, on an empty ito- 

 mach, as anthelmintic. A conferve, made by beating the 

 frefh leaves with thrice their weight of fine fugar, is the 

 molt commodious form for ufing the herb in fubilance. The 

 dofe of the powdered leaves may be from grs. xv to yjj, 

 given twice or thrice a day. 



The officinal preparations are oleum ruta, and extrac- 

 tum rutiz graveolentis. The " oleum hevbae florefcentis 

 rutre" of the Dublin pharmacopeia, or oil of rue, is pro- 

 cured in the quantity of 59 grains of oil from 2 I pounds 

 of rue, which oil has the ftrong ungrateful odour and 

 tafle of the plant. When recently drawn the colour is 

 yellow, but by age it deepens to a brown, and depofits a 

 brownifh refinous fedimeut. It congeals at 40^ Fahren- 

 heit. This oil is Itimulant, and antifpafmodic : it is 

 fometimes given in hylleria, and the convuliive affec- 

 tions of infants attendant on dentition, and is fometime-. 

 ufed as a rubefacient in palfy. The dole is from ill ij to 

 lit v < triturated with fugar or mucilage. The " extractum 

 foliorum rutae graveolentis," Edin. " extractum foliorum 

 rutx," Dub., or extract of rue, is prepared by the former 

 difpenfatory in the fame manner as the extract, and by the 

 latter, like other fimple extracts : and by whichever pro- 

 cefs it is prepared, it is inodorous, but has a bitter acrid 

 tafle. The medicinal properties are different from thofe 

 of the plant, the llimulant and narcotic powers of which 

 depend on the volatile oil it contains, which is diflipated 

 during the infpifiation of the extradl. The dofe is 

 from grs. x to 3j, in pills. Lewis. Woodville. Thomp- 

 fon. 



Rue, Dog's. See Scrophulaiua. 



Rue, Goat's. See Gaxega. 



Rue, Meadow. See Thalictrum. 



The leaves of meadow-rue, mixed with other greens, are 

 fomewhat laxative, according to Dodonseus ; but a decoc- 

 tion of the root is more fo, and may be well fubitituted for 

 rhubarb. 



Rue, 



