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trfeans of incarnation, called granulations. That if fuch an 

 attempt is ever made it produces a fungus, called by Mr. 

 Hunter neiv jlejh-, which will not heal, and which requires 

 the application of cauftic before any attempt at (kinning 

 will commence. After this application, Mr. H. remarks the 

 readinefs with which the whole will Jk\n over. In this lan- 

 guage, the furgicai reader will obferve the caution with 

 which Mr. Hunter avoids the common terms oi granulation 

 and cicatrization, by fubllituting for the firft netv jlejli, 

 which will not heal, and for the iecond,Jiinniiig, whicli rapidly 

 takes place over the whole fore, whereas it is well known 

 that cicatrization is the moll tedious part of the healing 

 procefs in all other ulcers. In this manner the writer of 

 this article conceives we are to reconcile ourfelves to that 

 remark on the granulating property of chancres mentioned 

 under the article Lues Venerea ; which fee. See alfo 

 Morbid Poijons. 



VENERIA, or Aphrodisium, Faradeefe, in Ancietit 

 Geography, a town of Africa, iituated on the fea-coaft, 

 N.N.AV. of Adrumetum. Ptolemy. 



VENERIE, La, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Po, which took its name from a royal 

 palace built by Emanuel II. duke of Savoy, for a hunting 

 feat : in this town are carried on manufaftures of wool and 

 filk. The palace was magnificent, and the adjacent country 

 abounds with game ; 3 miles N.N.W. of Turin. 



VENERIS JEnadis Ternplum, in Ancient Geography, 

 the name of a temple built by the Trojans in honour of 

 Venus, when they landed on the coaft of Epirus, and took 

 potTeflion of the peninfula called Leucas. Dion. Halic. 

 This temple was on the promontory of A£tium. 



Veneki.s ylrfinoes Famim, a temple of Egypt, on the 

 promontory Zcpliyrium, between Canopus and Alexandria. 

 Strabo. 



Venerjs Aureit Campus, a territory of Egypt, in that of 

 Memphis. Diod. Sic. 



Veneris Injula, an ifland of the Arabic gulf, on the 

 coaft of Egypt. Pliny. 



Veneris Lacus, a lake fituated, according to Pliny, at 

 Hierapolis in Syria. It was a marfh, near a temple of 

 Juno, according to Lucian. 



Veneris Mons, a mountain of Spain, S. of the Tagus, 

 and near the country of the Carpetani, according to 

 Appian. 



Veneris Partus, a port of Gallia Narbonnenfis, on the 

 Mediterranean fea, between the promontories of the 

 Pyrenees, and N. of Cervaria. This port was famous for 



a temple of Venus Alfo, a port of Italy, in Liguria, on 



the confines of Etrnria, between Segefta and Portus 

 Delphini. Anton. Itin. — Alfo, a port of Egypt, upon the 

 Arabic gulf. It was anciently named " Myos Hormus," 

 or " Muris Statio ;" alfo called " Magnus Portus," and 

 afterwards " Veneris Portus," according to Ptolemy, who 

 fays that it was near tlie promontory Drepanum. 



Veneris JEJlrum, the Jlimulus or incentive of venery, is 

 an appellation given, by (onie anatomifts, to the clitoris. 



Veneris JEjIrum is alfo ufed, by others, for the tranfport 

 of love, or the utmoft ecftafy of defire or enjoyment in 

 coition. 



Some are of opinion, that infeflious women are the moft 

 apt to communicate the poifon when they are thus excited 

 with defire ; whereas, with indifference, they may admit 

 the fame intercourfe, without giving the infedlion. 



Veneris Ens. See Ens. 



VENERQUE, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Upper Garonne ; 10 miles S. of 

 Touloufe. 



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VENERY is ufed for the aft of copulation, or coition, 

 of the two fexes. 



It takes its name from Venus, the fuppofed deity of the 

 pafTiou of love. 



Venery alfo denotes the art or exercife of hunting wild 

 beafts ; which are alfo called beafis of -venery, and beajs of 

 the forejl. 



Such are the hare, hart, hind, boar, and wolf. See 

 Beast, Game, and Hunting. 



VENESECTION, in Surgery, the operation of opening 

 a vein, for the purpofe of taking away blood for the relief 

 ofdifeafes. See Bleeding. 



VENESS, in Geography, a cape on the S.E. coafl of 

 the ifland of Eday. N. lat. 59° i'. W. long. 2° 38'. 



VENETA Bolus, a line red earth ufed in painting, and 

 called in the colour-lhops Venetian red. See Red. 



It is improperly denominated a bole, being a genuine 

 fpecies of red ochre. It is of a fine bright, and not very- 

 deep red, approaching, in fome degree, to the colour of 

 minium, or red-lead, and is moderately heavy, and of an 

 even and fmooth texture, yet very friable, and of a dully 

 furface : it adheres firmly to the tongue, is very fmooth, 

 and foft to the touch, eafily crumbles to pieces between the 

 fingers, and very much flains the fl<in in handling. It 

 has a flight allringent tafte, effervefces confiderably with 

 aquafortis, and in water immediately breaks into a fine 

 powder. 



It is dug in Carinthia, and fent from Venice into all parts 

 of the world, being an excellent colour, and very cheap ; 

 our colourmen, however, find too many ways of adiJ- 

 terating it. Hill and Da-Cofta. 



VENETI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Italy, in 

 Venetia, of Celtic origin. According to fome hillorians they 

 were the dcfcendants of a colony of Trojans, who came to 

 eftablilh themfelves here on the ruin of tlieir own country ; 



but Herodotus fays that they were an lllyric nation Alfo, 



a people of Gallia Celtica, in Armorica, who inhabited the 

 peninfula above the Namneti, according to Caefar (De 

 Bel. Gall. lib. iii. c. 8. ) who afcribes to them the glory of 

 being the moft powerful of all the people who inhabited 

 this coaft, and who availed themfelves of their fliipping, and 

 of the fcience and pradlice of navigation. Ptolemy calls 

 their capital Dariorigum. Ca;far denominates their terri- 

 tory Venetia, although the Veneti, who inhabited that pro- 

 montory of Gaul which is now called Britanny, excelled, 

 as Casfar fays, all the nations on the continent in their 

 knowledge of maritime affairs, and in the number and 

 ftrength of their fliips; yet, when they were prepainng to 

 fight a decifive battle againft the Romans by fea, they 

 afked and obtained anxiharies from Britain ; which they 

 certainly would not have done, if the Britons could have 

 affifted them only with a few wicker-boats, covered with 

 fliins. It is therefore probable, that the people of Britain 

 had fhips much of the fame form and conftrudlion with 

 thoie of their friends and allies the Veneti, with which they 

 joined their fleet on that occafion. Thefe fhips of the 

 Veneti are defcribed by Cxfar as very large, lofty, and 

 flrong, built entirely of thick planks of oak, and fo fohd, 

 that the beaks of the Roman fhips could make no impreffion 

 upon them. The combined Heets of the Veneti and Britons, 

 in the famous fea-fight off the coaft of Armorica, now 

 Britanny, againft the Romans, confifted of two hundred 

 and twenty of thefe large and ftrong fhips, which were 

 almoft all dellroyed in that unfortunate engagement ; by 

 which the naval power both of Gaul and Britain was en- 

 tirely ruined. This great difafter is beheved, by fome of 

 the bell of our antiquaries and hiftorians, to have been the 



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