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fabjecb to the Royal Society, he was cleftcd a fellow of 

 that body. He contributed many coins, altars, and other 

 antiquities, together with a great number of valuable natu- 

 ral ciiriofities, to the Afhmolean niufeum at Oxford. His 

 various productions having made him well known to the 

 learned in the kingdom, upon the fohcitatii n of his friends 

 he removed to London in the year i6{!4. Ke was at tliat 

 time created dotlor of pliyllc by diploma at Oxford, upon 

 the particular recommendation of the chancellor ; and was 

 foon afterwards elefled a fellow of the College of Phyficians. 

 In 169S he accompanied the earl of Portland in his embafly 

 from king Wilham to the court of France ; when, having 

 obtained introductions to the mod eminent men of fcience at 

 Paris, he viewed all the curiofities of that capital. On his 

 return he publifhed an account of this journey, which con- 

 tained fome things of a tritlaig nature, and gave occalion to 

 a bnrlefque imitation, entitled " A Jourr,ey to London," 

 by Dr. WiUiam Kmg. At that time, indeed, when the 

 ftudy of natural hillory was little attended to, a man who 

 had written on (nails and fpidcrs, and bcllowed his attention 

 on the minutelt parts of natural ki-.owledge, was particularly 

 liable to incur the ridicule of wits. In confequence ot the 

 illnefs of Dr. Hannes, in 1709, Dr. Lillcr was made fecond 

 phyfician in ordinary to queen Anne ; an appointment which 

 he did not hold long ; for he died in February 1711-12. 



The medical writings of this piiyfician are not void of va- 

 luable oblervations, deduced from his own experience ; but 

 they are marked by a propenhty to hypothefis, and too 

 ftrong an attachment to ancient doftrines. Thefe are two 

 works on Englifh medicinal waters, entitled " De Fontibus 

 Medicatis Anglix, Exercitatio nova et prior," 1682, "al- 

 tera," 1684: " Excrcitationes fee Medicinales, de quibuf- 

 dam morbis chronicis," 1694, which was republilhed, with 

 additions, in 1697. The dileafes here treated of are dropfy, 

 for which he recommends the ufe of draftic purgatives ; dia- 

 betes, hydrophobia, fyphihs, for which he admits that 

 mercury is a fpcciiic, but avers that the mercury itfelf re- 

 quires an antidote, which is found in the guaiacuni ; fcurvy, 

 gout, Hone, and fmall-pox, for which iaft he extols the re- 

 medial efFefts of the alexiplurmic medicines, and condemns 

 the cooling practice introduced by the fagacious Sydenham. 

 In general, indeed, he is a keen controvcrilaliil, and indulges 

 in fevere remarks upon fome of his contemporaries, efpe- 

 cially Sydenham. In his "^iffertatio de Humonbus," 

 1709, which is full of hvpothefes, he is not lefs fevere in his 

 treatment of Drake and Ruyfch. 



The reputation of Liller is principally founded on his rc- 

 fearches in natural hillory and comparative anatomy. He 

 publiflied nearly forty papers in the Philofophical Tranfac- 

 tions, Nos. 2) to jSj inclufive, in addition to the following 

 works. " Hilloris Anmialium Anglis Tractatus tres : 

 unus de Araneis : alter de Cochleis, turn terrcftribus, turn 

 fluviatilibus : tertius de Cochleis marinis," 167S, 4to. 

 " Exercitatio Anatomica de Cochleis maxime terreltribus et 

 Limacibas," 1694. 8vo. " Exercitatio Anatomica altera 

 de Buccinis fluviatilibus et niarini.-,," 1695, Svo. " Exerci- 

 tatio Anatomica tertia C(.nchvIiorum bivalvium," 1696, 

 4to. In all thefe works Dr. Liiler has difplayed great ac- 

 curacy of obfervation, and ind.faigable induilry, in de- 

 tecting the moll minute and curious partif ulars of the eco- 

 nomy of thefe creatures. He alfo edited a correft and better 

 arranged copy of Goedart's Treatife on Iiiteits, in 16S5 ; 

 and an edition of SanSorius's " Medicina Statioa," with a 

 commentary, in 1701. His "Journey to Paris," notwith- 

 llanding the efforts of ridicule, was well received, and con- 

 tains a variety of curious matter. Gen. Biog. Hulchin- 

 foc, Biog. Med- Eloy Did. Hiit. 



LISTERLANTD, in Geography, .1 cape on the S. Coa& 



of Norv.ay ; 20 nulos N.W. of LinJefnefs. 



LISTING, or Ini,i.sti.\c;, in Military Lan^un^e, de- 

 notes liic retaining and enrolling foldiers, as volunteers, for 

 tile national fervice. When any per Ton is iiilided as a fol- 

 dier, he (liall within four days, but not fooner than twenty- 

 four hours, be taken before the next julticc of peace, or 

 chief magiilrate of a town corporate, not being an officer 

 in the army ; and before him fliall be at lit)e)-ty to declare 

 his dilFeiit to fuch inlilUng ; and on fuch declaration, and 

 returning the in'.i'.ling money, and paying ics for the 

 charges ex[>er.ded on him, he Ihall be forthwith difcharged, 

 ill pretence of luch magillrate. But if he (liall refufe or, 

 negleft in twenty-four hours to return and pay fuch money, 

 he Ihall be deemed to be inlifted, as if he had given his &{- 

 fent before the magiftrate. If he declare that h^e volun- 

 tarily inlilted himfelf, the magiftrate fhall certify under his 

 hand, that fuch perfon is duly inhfted, fetting forth the 

 place of his birth, age, and calling, if known ; and that ' 

 the third and fourtli articles of the fecond fefiion, and the 

 firll article of the iixth feftion of the articles of war againft 

 mutiny and defertion were read to him, and that he has 

 taken the oaths mentioned in the faid articles of war ; -vnz, 

 the oath of fidelity and the oaths in the fcheduLs marked A, 

 and B ; except in the cafe of recruits inhfted either in his 

 Biajefty's fervice or m the Eail India company's forces under 

 39 Geo. III. c. 109, in which cafe each recruit flial!, in- 

 Head of the faid oath of fidelity, and that contained in the 

 fchedule A or B, take the oath of allegiance diiected by 

 the 39th of the king, and contained in Ichedule E, and 

 the juitice or maglllrate Ihall certify luch inliftmtnt and 

 fwearing according to the fchedule F ; and if any ptrfon 

 fo certitied as duly inlifted ftiall refufe to take the laid oath 

 of fidelity before inch maglllrate, &;c. the officer, from 

 whom he hath received luch money, may detain and confine 

 him till he (hall take it ; and every military officer that iball 

 herein offend, (hall be calhiered and dilplaced from their 

 office, and difabled from holding any mihtary poll, and 

 forfeit jo/. See Foreign yt/n'itf. 



LIS rOWHILL, or LisTOWELL, in Geo^nrp/iy, a poft- 

 town of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, fjtuated on thjji 

 river Feale. The caiUe, on the fummit of a lleep precipice 

 above the river, was the lad ftrong hold which held out 

 againft queen Elizabeth in 1600. It is 131 miles S.W, 

 by AV. from Dublin, and 13 N.E. from Tralee. 



LISTVENNISCHNA, a town of Ruffia, in the 

 government of Irkut(k, on the Argun, on tlic confines o£ 

 China. N. lat. 51 44'. E. long. 121 20'. 



LIT, a town of Sweden, in Jamlland ; 10 miles N. of 

 Ofterfand. 



LITA, in Botany, fo named by Sclireber, from >.i'of, 

 /tmph, nahcd, or dcjVuute, becaufe the plant confifts chiefly 

 of flowers, with a very trifling Hem, and no leaves, but a 

 few fmall fcales. Schreb. 795. Willd. Sp. PI v. 1. 107 1. 

 Mart. Mill. Diet, V. 3. (Voyria; Aubl. Guian. v. i. 2Cti. 

 Vohiria; Jufl. 141. Lamarck Illuftr. t. IC9. — Chifs and 

 order, Pentcuulr'ia Monogyaia. Nat. Ord. R</tcue£x Linn. 

 Gcntinnj:, Jufi. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, inferior, tubular, 

 ereft, coloured, five-cleft, acute, permanent. Cor. of One 

 petal, falver (haped ; tube cylindrical, very long, dlla'ed al 

 the top and bottom ; limb in five equal, ovate, ipreadlng, 

 deep fegments. Siani. Filaments (carcely any i anthers five,. " 

 roundifli, two-lobed, nearly feOUe, in the throat of the tube. 

 Pi/i. Gcrmen fuperior, ovate-obiong ; llyle thread-ihaped» 

 the length of the tube ; ftigma capitate, abrupt. I'tria. 

 Capfule oblong, of oue cell and twa valves. .SVcv/r ver^ 



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