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in the Satyr. Silefiac. Specim. 4. Obf. 4. The cxpreired 

 oil is an officinal preparation, and is faid to be of a more 

 healing and ballamic nature than the other oils of this clafs ; 

 it has therefore been very generally employed in pulmonary 

 complaints ; alfo in colics, and condipations of the bowels. 

 It is ufed in common with other oils as a vermifuge. Lewis 

 Mat. Med. Woodv. Med. Bot. 



long, having at one end a piece of iron divided into two 

 branches, each of which has a notch to hold a piece of 

 match, and a fcrew to fallen it there ; the other end being 

 alfo Ihod with iron, and pointed to ftick into the ground, or 

 .in'the deck when it is ufed at fea. It is ufed by the gunners 

 in firing cannon. It is frequently ufed in fmall veffels, in 

 an engagement, where there is commonly one fixed between 



Linseed Cakes, in ^griculliire, the name of fuch cakes every two guns, by which the match is always kept dry and 

 36 remain after the ex;)rcfilon of the oil from flax feed. They ready for tiring. 



are at prefent m\ich ufed in the fattening of cattle, (lieep, 

 and other forts of live ftock, and of courfe of great value 

 and importance to the farmer. The price however has been 

 of late fo high as to greatly lelFen the demand for this article. 

 See Oil-cake. 



Linseed, Infufwnof. See Infusion. 



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

 department of the North ; five miles N. of Lille. 



LINSENBAHRT, or as he is called in his works in 

 Latin, Lentilius, Rosinus, in Biography, a phyfician, 

 was bom at Waldenburg, in the province of Hohenlohe, 

 in February 1657. He commenced his fludics at Heidel- 

 berg at the age of fourteen, and thence removed to Jena in 

 1673. ^"'- '"^ fcanty means of fubfillence compelled him 

 tlie next year to engage as a teacher in the vicinity of Leipfic, 

 where he continued till 1677. He then travelled, with a 

 view to improve his fituation, through feveral of the princi- 

 pal towns in the north of Germany, and fettled at Mittan, 

 in Courland, in the fame capacity of teacher. To aid this 

 feeble refource, Linfenbahrt began likewife to praftife me 



LINSTORP, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 province of Medelpedia ; 16 miles N. of Su:.dfwal. 



LINT, in Surgery, is the icraping of fine linen, ufed by 

 furgeons in drefling wounds. It is made into various forms, 

 which acquire different names, according to the difference 

 of their figures. 



Lint made up in an oval, or orbicular form, is called a 

 philgil ; if in a cylindrical form, or in the thape of a dale 

 olive-done, it is called a tf'^/^ 



Thefe different fiirms of linf are required for many pur- 

 pofes ; as, I. To flop blood in frefh wounds, by filling them 

 up with dry lint before the application of a bandage ;• though 

 if fcraped lint be not at iuuid, a piece of fine linen may be 

 torn into fmall rags, and applied in the fame manner. In 

 very large hemorrhages the hut, or rags, fliould be firft 

 dipt in fome ftyptic liquor, alcohol, or oil of tvirpentine, or 

 fprmkled with a ilyptic powder. 2. To agglutinate and 

 heal wounds; to which end lint is very ferviceable, if fpread 

 witii fome digeftive ointment, or balfam, or dipt in fome 

 vulnerary liquor. _v I" drying up wounds and ulcers, and 



dicine, in which his fuccefs was fuch, that the marquis of forwarding the formation of a cicatrix. 4. In keeping the 



Anfpach appointed him phyfician to the town of Creillheim, 

 in Franconia ; whitiier he repaired in 1680, after having 

 been admitted a licentiate in medicine at Altdorf. He after- 

 wards fettled at Stutgard, and was patronifed by the mar- 

 quis of Dourlach ; aud, when that prince was driven by 

 tnc war to take refuge at Bafie, he was nominated honorary 

 phyfician to the duke of Wirtemberg, and became his firll 

 phyfician in 17 1 1. He accompan'ed the fon of this prince 

 in his travels, during three years ; and after his return, in 

 1716, remained in the tranquil exercile of his profeffion un- 

 til his death, in FebruHry 1733. Linfenbahrt was ardent 

 in his attention to the qualiiies and operations of di-ugs during 

 his whole life, regarding that fpecies of knowledge as the 

 mod important to the phyfician, and being fomewhat too 



lips of wounds at a proper dillance, that they may not 

 hallily unite, before the bottom is well digeiled and healed. 

 5. They are highly neceffary to prelerve wounds from the 

 injuries of the air. Small portions of lint tied round with 

 thread are chiefly ufed in drefling wounds and ulcers of the 

 deeper kind. They are always applied to the bottom of 

 fuch wounds, the remaining cavity being filled up with otiier 

 portions of lint. By this njeans, the immediate removal of 

 the dreffings is not only provided for, but the poffihility of 

 leaving any part of them in the bottom of the wound is pre- 

 vented. 



In very large wounds, and efpecially in amputations of 

 the limbs, which operations are frequently required in the 

 army and navy, at times when lint is very fcarce, it will be 



negligent of the (Uidy of anatomy, and of the writings of very fufficient to drefs the bare bone and face of the wound 



the ancients. He was the firll who recommended the ufe of 

 arfenic internally, for the cure of intermittent fevers, in 

 which its efficacy has been eftublifhed by recent obfervers, and 

 efpecially by Dr. Fowler, of York. He was a decided 

 enemy to blood-letting, which he ftrenuoufly endeavoured 

 to difcard from the praftice of medicine ; and particularly 

 condemned the cullom, then prevalent among the Germans, 

 of letting blood at the equinoctial periods, againll which he 

 publifhed a treatife in his mother-tongue, at Ulm, in 1692. 

 He was hkewife author of the following works. " Tabula 

 Confultatoria Medica " Ulm, 1696. " Mifcellanea Medico- 

 PraAica tripartita," ibiden', 1694. " De Hydrophobic 

 «aufa et cnra, Diflertatio," ibid. 1770 " Eteodromus 

 Medico-Practicus anni 1709," Stutgard, 1711. " Jatrnm- 

 nemata Theoretico-Practica," ibid. 171 2. Eloy Did. 

 Hill, de la Med. 



LINSPINS, or Linchpins, are fmall pins of iron, 

 which keep the wheel of a cannon, or wajigon, on the axle- 

 tree ; for when the end of the axle-:ree is put through 

 the nave, the linfpin is put in to keep the wheel trom falling 

 off, 



LINSTOCK, a (hort ftaff of wood, about three feet 



with fcraped lint, filling up the cavity with tow, and cover- 

 ing all with a large comprefs. 



Surgeons of former ages formed compreffes of fponge, 

 feathers, wool, or cotton, linen being fcarce ; but lint is 

 far preferable to all thefe, and is at prefent univerfally ufed. 



LINTCIN, in Geography, a city of China, of the fe- 

 cond rank, in Chan-tong, on the grand canal, much fre- 

 quented by veffels as a magazine for all forts of merchan- 

 uize. N. hit. 36 56'. E long. 115 31'. 



LIN I'EL, in jlrchitetliire, the piece of timber which 

 lies horizontally over door-pofts and window-jambs; as well 

 tu bear the thicknefs of the wall over it, as to bind the fides 

 of the walls together. 



LINTELI^, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 county of Verden ; four miles N.E. of Verden. 



LINTERNUM, or Liteknlm, in Am'unt Geography. 



See LiTEKNUM. 



LINTHAL, in Geography, a town of Switzerland, in 

 the canton cf Claris ; 12 miles S.W. of Claris. 



LIN-TIN, a town of China, of the fccond rank, on a 

 fma'i ifiand in tlie province oi Quang-tong ; 15 miles N.E. 

 of Macao. 



LINTNER, 



