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fuperior, and in having remarkably albuminous feeds, wliereas 

 the Cucurbitacea ufually have no albumen. We would re- 

 mark, with due deference to this juftly celebrated carpolo- 

 gift, that the partial cells of the pulp appear to be merely 

 what mutt occur, in the drying up of any fuch berry, and 

 probably have no exiftence in a recent ftate of the fruit. 

 Tiiey are therefore fcarcely entitled to be mentioned in the 

 eflential charafter. 



VAREILLES Som.\(Ieres, in Geography, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Vienne ; 7 miles N.N.E. 

 of Civray. 



VAREL, a town of Germany, in the county of Olden- 

 burg ; 22 miles N. of Oldenburg. 



VARELLE, a fmall ifland in the Chinefe fea, near the 

 E. coaft of Malacca. N. lat. 3° 18'. E. long. 104°. 



VAREN, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Aveiron ; 18 miles N.N.W. of Alby. 



VARENA, a town of Italy, on the lake of Como ; 15 

 miles N.N.E. of Como. 



VARENNE, a tcwn of Canada, on the right bank of 



the St. Laurence. N. lat. 45° 41'. W. long. 73° 10' 



Alfo, a town of France, in the department of the AUier ; 

 lo miles N. of CuflTet. — Alfo, a town of South Carolina ; 

 20 miles S.E. of Queenborough. 



Varenne k Grand, a tcwn of France, in the department 

 of the Saone and Loire ; 6 miles S. of Chalons. 



VARENNES, a town of France, and feat of a tribunal, 

 in the department of the Meufe. In this town the king and 

 queen of France, with the daunhin, the princefs royal, and 

 the princefs Elizabeth, were flopped in their journey to 

 Montmedy, when they attempted to efcape, in the month of 

 June 1 791 ; 7 miles N. of Clermont en Argonne. N. lat. 

 49'^ 14'. E. long. 5° 7'. — Alfo, a town of France, in the 

 department of the tJppfr Marne ; 6 miles S.W. of Bour- 

 bonne. 



VARENTANUM, VarenTUM, in Ancient Geography, 

 a town of Italy, in Etruria, according to the Itinerary of 

 Antonine. 



VARESA, in Geography, a town of Genoa; 10 miles 

 N.N.W. of Brugneto. 



VARESIO, a town of It.iJy, capital of the department 

 of the Verbano ; 24 miles N.N.W. of Milan. N. lat. 

 45° 50'. E. long. 8= 49'. 



VARGAS, Luis de, in Biography, a Spanifh painter of 

 celebrity, was born at Seville in 1528. He went to Italy 

 to improve his talents, and palTed feven years in Rome, where 

 he principally direfted his attention to RafFaelle and P. Peru- 

 gino's works. When he returned to Seville, he found a formi- 

 dable rival in Pedro Campanna, and he therefore returned to 

 Italy to cultivate his powers dill farther ; and on returning a 

 fecond time to his native city, obtained reputation, and em- 

 ployment. He painted for the cathedral two piAures, viz. 

 Chrift bearing his Crofs, and Adam and Eve ; the latter 

 of which is regarded as his mafter-piece. He executed 

 feveral other works for the churches in Seville, both in oil 

 and frefco ; and he was no lefs diilinguifhed for his fltill in 

 portraiture, particularly in his portrait of Donna Juana 

 Cortes, duchefs of Alcala. He died at Seville in 1590, 

 aged 62. 



Vargas Mexia, Fb.\ncesco de, a Spanifh lawyer, who 

 occupied feveral polls in the judicature under Charles V., 

 and became advocate-fifcal in the fupreme council of Caf- 

 tile, was fent by Charles, in 1548, to Bologna, to proteft 

 againll the trandation of the council of Trent to that city. 

 After the diflblution of this council, he fpent feven or 

 eight years in a public capacity at Venice. Being ordered 

 by Phflip II. to aft as refident deputy to the Spanifh am- 



baflador at Rome, his known learning and integrity caufed 

 him to be much confulted by the cardinals on the fubjeft of 

 epifcopal jurifdiftion. On his return to Spain, he was 

 nominated a counfellor of ftate ; but at length retired from 

 the world to tbe monailery of Cillos near Toledo. He was 

 author of feveral works ; particularly " De Epifcoporura 

 Jurifdiftione, et Pontificis Maxinii Authoritate," Venet. 

 4to. 1563 ; " Commentaries upon Waragainft the Infidels," 

 S:c. &c. In 1700, Le Vaffor pubh(hed in French, at Amfter- 

 dam, " Letters and Memoirs of Vargas," relative to the 

 council of Trent, which are faid not to be very refpeftful 

 to that aflembly. Moreri. 



Vargas, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the pro- 

 vince of Bifcay ; 1 1 miles S.S.W. of Santander. 



V ARGEL, or Vargula, an ancient town of Germany, 

 in the territory of Erfurt ; 10 miles N.W. of Erfurt. 



VARGO, a town of Spain, in Catalonia; 14 miles N. 

 of Solfona. 



VARHELY, a town of Tranfylvania, built on the ruins 

 of Sarmizagethufa, the ancient capital of Dacia, afterwards 

 named by Trajan, Ulpia Trajana ; 60 miles E. of Te- 

 mefvar. 



VARI. Perfons were formerly fo termed, when their- 

 legs were deformed, and their toes turned in an unufual de- 

 gree inwards. 



Vari, in Medicine, hard, inflamed tubercles, occurring 

 on the face and neck of young people, of both feices, after 

 the commencement of the period of puberty. 



This eruption, which disfigures the countenance at that 

 period of life when perfonal appearance is ufually of the 

 greateil importance in the eftimation of the perfons affefted, 

 has been therefore the obieft of medical attention ffora the 

 earlieft ages, though in itfelf but a trivial complaint. Celfus 

 obferves, that the Roman ladies in his time were fo fohcitous 

 of maintaining their beauty, that he desmed it neceffary to 

 mention the remedies for this affeftion of the llcin, which 

 otherwife he confidered as too trifling for the notice of the 

 phyfician. " Pene ineptiae funt, curare -varos et lenticulas 

 et ephehdes (freckles and fun-fpots) ; fed eripi tamen foemi- 

 nis cura cultus fui non poteli." (De Medicina, Lb. vi. 

 cap. 5.) The circumifance of this eruption occurring at 

 the age of puberty has given rife to the appellations given to 

 it by the Greek phyficians, namely, ionthos and acne. The 

 term ionthos fignifying the lanugo, or firft down of the beard, 

 during which it begins ; and oiyj.-r, quajt a-x^'^y implying that 

 it appears at the acme, or period of full growth and evolution 

 of the body. ( See Juhus Pollux, Onomafticon, hb. iv. cap. 25. 

 Aetius, Tetrabile ii. ferm. iv. cap. 13, &c.) Under this 

 term acne. Dr. Willan arranged the difeafe in the order of 

 tubercles, and defcribed four varieties of the eruption, with 

 the epithets Jimplex, punSata, indurata, and rojacea. See 

 Dr. Bateman's Praftical Synopfis of Cutaneous Difeafes, 

 according to the Claffification of Dr. Willan, p. 275. 



The acne, then, confills of an eruption of thefe 'uari, or 

 diftinft, hard, inflamed tubercles, which are fometimes per- 

 manent for a confiderable length of time, and fometimes 

 fuppurate very flowly and partially, forming only a little 

 matter at the top. They ufually appear on the face, efpe- 

 cially on the forehead, temples, and chin, .ind not unfre- 

 quently on the neck, flioulders, and upper part of the breaft, 

 to the extent that might be covered by a tippet ; but sever 

 defcending to the lower parts of the trunk, or appearing on 

 the extremities. This, however, does not depend on the 

 parts being uncovered ; for the limitation is the fame in both 

 fexes. As the progrefs of each tubercle is flow, and they 

 appear in fucceffion, they are generally feen at the fame 

 time in their various ftages of growth and decline ; and, in 



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