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many, by the agitation into whicii they have thrown the 

 fpirits, already too much diforjord. We have alfo accounts 

 of perfons abfolutely killed by terrors, when in pcrfed health 

 at the time of receiving the fhock from them : people ordered 

 to be executed, but with private orders for a reprieve, have 

 expired at the block without a wound. 



The general efFeds of terror are a contraftion of the fmall 

 vefiels, and a rcpulfion of the blood in the large and internal 

 ones ; hence proceed the fuppreflion of perfpiration, the ge- 

 neral opprefilon, trembling, and anguifh of heart and lungs 

 overcharged with blood, &c. 



When a perfon is affefted with terror, the principal endea- 

 vour fhould be to reftore the circulation to its due order, to 

 promote perfpiration, and to allay the agitation of the patient- 

 For thefe purpofes he may drink a little warm liquor, as 

 chamomile tea, &c. ; the feet and legs may be put into warm 

 water, the legs rubbed, and the chamomile tea repeated every 

 fix or eight minutes; and when the flcin is warm, and there 

 is a tendency to perfpiration, fleep may be promoted by a 

 gentle opiate. 



TERRYA, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 30 miles 

 S. of Beyhar. 



TERSA, a fmall river of RufTia, which runs into the 

 Medveditza, in the country of the Coffacs. N. lat. 50° 30'. 

 E. long. 44.° 34'. 



TERSCHUEREN, a town of Guelderland ; 7 miles E. 

 of Amersfort. 



TERSEKAN, a river of RufTia, which runs into the 

 Ifchim, N. lat. 52° 50'. E. long. 67° 34'. 



TERSHIZ. See Turshish. 



TERSION, Tersio, formed of teroi I tvear, the aft of 

 wiping or rubbing a thing. See Abrasion. 



TERTA, in Ancient Geography, a town fituated, accord- 

 ing to Ptolemy, in the interior of Thrace, between Sardica 

 and Philippolis. 



TERTHRON, a word properly fignifying the extreme 

 part of the fail-yard in (hipping. Hippocrates ufes it in a 

 metaphorical fenfe, to exprcfs the extremity of a difeafe. 



TERTIAN, in Medicine, a fpecies of intermitting fever, 

 of which the fimilar paroxyfms occur at an interval of about 

 forty-eight hours. See Fever. 



Tertian is alfo an old meafure, containing eighty-four 

 gallons, fo called becaufe it is the third part of a tun. i R. III. 

 c. 13. 2 H. VI. c, II. 



TERTIANARIA, in Botany, a name given by fome 

 authors to the fcutcllaria, or hooded willow-herb. J. Bauhin, 

 vol. iii. p. 435. 



TERTIARY Canons. See Canons. 



TERTIAS, a word ufed very frequently in the writings 

 of phyficians, with the addition of ad; but it is capable of 

 a double fignification. Ad tertias is often ufed to exprefs 

 how far the liquor is to be boiled away in the medical de- 

 coftions ; yet it may in this cafe fignify either the boiling 

 to two-thirds, or to one-third part, of the whole. The more 

 ufual fenfe, however, is to boil away one -third part of the 

 original liquor ; and in the fame manner to fill a vefTel adteriias, 

 does not fignify to fill a vefiel one-third part full, but two- 

 thirds, leaving only one empty. 



TERTIATE, in Guniury. To tertiate a great gun, is 

 to examine the thicknefs of the metal at the muzzle, whereby 

 to judge of the ftrength of the piece, and whether it be fuf- 

 ficisntly fortified or not. 



This is ufually done with apairofcJliper compafiTes. 



The term is alfo applied to any piece of ordnance for find- 

 ing whether it has its due thicknefs at the vent, trunnions, 

 and neck : if the trunnions and neck are in their due order, 

 <-.r.d the cnafe (Iraight, &c. 



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TERTII internodi: poUicis extenfor, in Anatomy. See 

 Extensor. 



TERTIO adjacente, Propofitio de. See Proposition. 



TERTIVERI, in Geography, a town of Naples, in Capi- 

 tanata ; 7 miles N.W. of Troja. 



TERTIUM Sal, a third fall, a tei-m ufed in Chemifry 

 to exprels a fait refulting from the mixture of an acid and an 

 alkali, which partakes fo of the nature of both, as to be itfelf 

 neither acid nor alkali, but neutral. 



TERTRE, John Baptist du, in Biography, a nailfion- 

 ary and writer of hillory, was born at Calais in 1610 : 

 and having fervcd in the army in early life, he joined the 

 Dominicans at Paris, and made his profeffion in 1635, affum- 

 ing the name of John-Baptift inftead of James. About five 

 years afterv/ards, he was fent as a miffionary to the Frencli 

 American iflajids, where he collefted materials for the work 

 which engaged his attention after his return to France in 

 1658 : that was his " Hiftoire Generale des Antilles habitees 

 par les Francois;" 4 vols. 410. 1667 — 71. After having 

 filled various pofts in the houfes of his order, he died at Paris 

 in 1687. Moreri. 



TERTUA, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, v.\ 

 Bahar ; ^4 miles E. of Bahar. 



TERTULLIAN, Quintus Septimius Florens Ter- 

 TULLIANUS, in Biography, generally reckoned the raoft an- 

 cient Latin father extant, was born at Carthage, not long 

 after the middle of the fecoad century. He tvas the fon of 

 a proconfular centurion, or military officer under the pro- 

 conful of Africa, and well acquainted with the Roman laws, 

 though he does not fecni to have praftifed the law as a pro- 

 feflion. He was alfo intimately converfant with the Greek 

 and Roman poets, hiftorians, orators, and philofophers, and 

 other heathen writers of every defcription. His (kill in Greek 

 was fo confiderable, that he wrote feveral books in that lan- 

 guage. It has been inferred from, his parentage, and from 

 fome expreflions in his works, that he was once a Heathen ; 

 but the time and circumftances of his converfion to Chrifti- 

 anity are not known. Cave fuppofes that he embraced Cbrifli- 

 anity about the year 185, and was made a prefbyter of the 

 church of Carthage about the year 192. According to Du 

 Pin, he flourilhed chiefly from about the year 194 to 216. 

 Tillemont is of opinion that he was bom in 160, and that he 

 died about the year 245, when he was between 80 and 90 

 years of age, having lived, as St. Jerom fays, to an extreme, 

 or decrepit, old age. Cave conjeftures that he died about 

 the year 220. It is faid that he was married, probably after 

 his converfion to Chriftianity. Having been a member of 

 the Catholic church for many years, he feparated from it 

 and became a Montanift, as Cave fays, about the year 199, 

 but about 205, according to Tillemont. Different accounts 

 have been given of this change ; but the moft probable feems 

 to be, that the fpecious pretences of the Montanifts to greater 

 mortification in fafts and continence had an influence on his 

 temper, which was fevere. But whatever might have been 

 his reafons for adopting the principles of Montanifm, they 

 feem to have made fo little alteration in him as an author, 

 that there are feveral of his pieces, concerning which it is not 

 eafy to detemiine, whether they were written by Tertullian 

 a Montanift, or Tertullian ftill aCathohc. AltJiough, in con- 

 fequence of this change, his reputation funk in the church, 

 yet it produced no feparation between him and other Chrif- 

 tians, except in point of difcipline, which, agreeably to his 

 temper, he wifhed to be har(h and rigorous. His doftrine 

 remained the fame with that of the Catholics. In procefs of 

 time, however, he beheved the divine infpiration of Mon- 

 tsDus and his two propheteffes, Prifcilla and Maximilla, and 

 that they were thus enabled to make further difcovcries than 



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