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t'„" tnngiie to the tip, the cdg-es remaining clean. As the 

 dirc;ife advances, a tciidornefs is felt when the epigallric region 

 i» jo.iipri-fTcd, and tho patient breathes inoiv by the ribs, and 

 l;N by the diaphragm, llian in the healthy Hate. The urine 

 i : 1 1\ quently turbid." ( Abernethy on the Conftitut. Origin 

 ct Local Dif.) In whichfocver of the organs concerned in 

 ion this morbid condition may be principally featcd, 

 ;'iers participate, and various cffefts follow, m the man- 

 iius defcribed by Mr. Abernethy. " It is generally 

 ii^.i]i itod, that difordcrsofthe chylopoietic vifcera will affeit 

 tlu- foiirce of fenfation, and confcquontly the whole body ; 

 but the variety of dlfeafes, which may rel'iilt from this caufe, 

 I'- not been duly weighed and refleiled on. It may pro- 

 , in the nervoii.< fyftem, a diminution of the functions 

 :■ brain, or a Hate of excitation, caufuiii delirium ; par- 

 .■i\-ous inactivity and infenfibility, or the oppofite rtate 

 iitation and pain It may produce, in the mufcular 

 ;r,, weaknefs, tremors, and palfy ; or the contrary af- 

 ^ ..i!.s of fpafm and convulllons. It may excite fever, by 

 dillurbing the actions of the fanguiferous fyftem ; and caufe 

 various local difeafes, by the nervous irritation which it pro- 

 duces, and by the weaknefs which is confequent on nervous 

 diforder or imperfecl chy lification. Or if local difeafes occur 

 in a conftitution deranged in the manner which I have 

 defcribed, they will become peculiar in their nature and pro- 

 grefs, and difficult of cure. AffeAions of all tliofe parts 

 which have a continuity of furface with the ilumach, as the 

 throat, mouth, lips, ikin, eyes, nofe, and ears, may be ori- 

 ginally caufed or aggravated by this complaint." When- 

 ever, therefore, local difeafes are connected with this flight 

 derangement of the digeilive organs, the firll care will be to 

 correft this derangement, as the moft important flep towards 

 the cure of the former. For while the fecretion of bile is 

 either defective, or depraved in quality, (of which the ap- 

 pearances of the alvine difcharge afford the beft index,) the 

 local or general fymptoms of diforder, connected with this 

 condition of the hepatic function, will not yield to remedies 

 that would otherwife feem to be appropriate, and readily 

 effeft a cure. 



INDIGETES, a name which the ancients gave to fome 

 of their gods. 



There are various opinions about the origin and ffgnilica- 

 tion of this word ; fome pretending it was given to all the 

 gods in general ; and others only tathe femi-gods^orgreat men 

 deined. Others fay it was given to fnch gods as were ori- 

 ginally of the country, or rather fuch as were the gods of 

 the country that bore this name ; and others again hold, it 

 was afcril-ed to fuchgodsas were patrons and protestors of 

 particular cities. 



JLaUly, others hold indigetes to be derived from inde ge- 

 nifus, or in loco dcgens, or from imU and ago, for dcgo, I 

 h-ve, J inhabit; which laft opinion feems the moil pro- 

 bable. 



In effeft it appears, i. That thefe indigetes were alfo 

 called local gods, dii /ocaks, or topical gods , which is the fame 

 thing. 2. The indigetes were ordinarily men deitied, who 

 indeed were, in efiect, local gods, being elteemed the pro- 

 tectors of thofe places where they were deified ; fothat tne 

 fecond and third opinion are very confiftent. 3. Virgd joir.s 

 paJiii with indigetes, as being the fame thing, Gcorg i. 

 ver. 4i;8. Dii patrVt, indigetes. 4. The gods to whom 'he 

 Romans gave the name indigetes were, Faunus, Vtila, 

 M.x\f •■■, li ■rnuius, all the gods of Italy; and at Aliieps, 

 Minerva, fays Scrvius ; and at Carthage, Dido It is true, 

 we meet with Jupiter indigei ; but that Jupiter ind}^es is 

 Mae&s, not the great Jupiter ; as we may fee in Livy, lib. i. 



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eap. iii. in which laft fenfc .Servius afTures in, ind^t comes 

 from t)ic Latin in diis tjgo, I am among tbegodt. 



Among thefe indigetes gods, there is none more cele- 

 brated, nor more cxtenfively worfhipprd, than Hercule'^. 



INDIGHIRKA, in G<-o»/«//.j.. a riverof RufTia, which 

 rifes in nearly 64 N. lat., in the Stanovoi-Krebct.and being 

 re.r.forcod by the Amekon and a multitude of fmaller river?, 

 falls, in four great arms, into the Frozen ocean, N. lat. 73* 

 E. long 144' 14'. 



INDIGNATORIUS, in Analnmy, a mufcle thus called, 

 as being fuppofed to draw the eye from its inner corner out- 

 wards, wl'.ich gives an appearance of fcornai:d anger. 



But this is properly a compound motion of two mufcles ; 

 for which, fee Eve. 



This mufcle is called by others the reftus exterior, and 

 ahducens ; and by Albinus, the nbdudtor. it is one of his 

 quatuor reCti oculi. 



INDIGO, or Anil, Botany. See Ixdigoff.ra. 



From this plant is extradted a dyer's drug, of a deep blue 

 colour, brought hither from the Weil Indies and Ameri- 

 ca. It is alfo made in the Ealt Indies, particularly in the 

 dominions of the Great Mogul, the kingdom of Golconda, 



The ancients were acquainted with the dye, which we call 

 indigo, under the name of " Indicum." Pliny knew that 

 it was a preparation of a vegetable fubllance, though he was 

 not jullly informed concerning the plant itfelf, and the pro- 

 cefs by which it was fitted for ufe From its colour, and 

 the country from which it was imported, it is denominated 

 by fome authors " Atramentum Indicum" and " Indicum 

 nigrum." Even at thcclofe of the i6th century it was not 

 known in England what plant produced indigo. Gcrarde> 

 in IJ97, is wholly filent about it, and fo is Johnfon in 16^2. 

 Parkinfon, however, in 1 640, treats largely of it. He 

 calls it " Indico or Indian woade,'' and gives a figure of the- 

 leaf from De Laet. He then defcribec it, tirit from Fran- 

 cis Xii f nes in De Laet's defcription of America ; and fe- 

 condly, from Mr. William Finch, a I>ondon merchant, in. 

 Purohas's Pilgrims. Even in 16S8 Mr Ray fays it was 

 not agreed among botanifts what plant it is frorn which 

 indigo is made ; but that the mofl probable opinion was, 

 that it is a leguminofe fhrub, allied to Colutea. He 

 defcri'ies it from Hernandez and Margraaf; ai'd fubjoins 

 that of the " Ameri" from the Hortus Malabaricus. " Nil 

 or Anil Is the American name. In Arabic it is Kile. The 

 Portiiguefe have adopted their j4nd or ylnileira from the 

 Ami^rican. The other European nations generally call it. 

 Indigo. In Chincfe it is Tiin laam, which lignifies iky-blue.. 

 Mo Miller cultivated the dyer's indigo fo long ago as the 

 year 17^1 ; and calls it Guatimala indigo, faying that with 

 us it is an annual plant. Specimens of the Indigofa-a tincforia, 

 or dyer's indigo, from different parts of India, Madagafcar, 

 .lava, Ceylon, &c. vary very much, if they are all really the 

 fame fpecies. Linnseus fays that it is almoft an exotic in 

 Ceylon, but frequent in Paliaccua and Coromandel. ;'^ c» 

 cording to Loureiro it is fpontaneous in China and Cochin- 

 china, and is cultivated all over thofe vail empires. Dr. 

 Patrick Browi.e, bcfides the wild indigo already mentioned, 

 has tv.'ooihers, which he calls the mdijro, and the Guatimala 

 indigo ; the former yielding more of the dye than either of 

 the others, is genera. ly preferred, though fubjeA to many 

 more mifchances. 



It hr.s been generally believed, that the indigo plant flou- 



rifhes cnly in the climate of the torrid zone, and in thofe 



p rts of the temperate zone which are near the tropics. But 



experiments lately made in Italy by Bruley, by order of 



gowrmnent. 



