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fofpended, when the effefts produced are attended with too 

 much violence or diforder. Opium may be given to lefTen 

 and check the diarrhoea, which fometimee arifes from mer- 

 cury, and both weakens the patient and diminifhes the fpeci- 

 fic aftion of that mineral on the diftemper. Sometimes other 



Hunter to be fometimes capable of preventing the difpofitioB 

 from being formed at all, if exhibited in an early ftage of a 

 chancre, before the virus has been abforbed. But as much 

 abforption, and the confequent difpofition for the difeafe in 

 certain parts take place at an early period of the cafe, all 



medicines will be ufeful, either given after the mercury is perfeverance in mercury for the prevention of any more fe- 



done with, while it is omitted for a time, or even in conjuiic- condary fymptoms is, according to the Munterian tenets, 



tion with it. This may be faid of bark, cicuta, opium, far- altogether fruitlefs. If the foft parts or firft order have beeu 



faparilla, and the diet-drinks already fpccified. Whatever cured, wecan:iotconfider"ourpatientfafe,refpectingthebones, 



doubtsmay prevailrefpeftingtheantivenereal qualitiesof nitric periefteum, and tendons, or fecond order, till a medium of 



acid, none remain with regard to its utility in meliorating the at lealt fix weeks after the lail mercurial irritation has ceafed. 



ftate of many complaints, which may exift after the fyplii- 

 litic aftion has been entirely fubdited by a previous exhibition 

 of mercury. But in our general obfervations we have al- 

 ready been fo full in our diredlions for the management of a 



Of this the patient fhould always be warned. The affeftiorj 

 of this fecond order of parts generally confift of nodes and 

 pains. But it is not every fwelling or pain in a fufpefted 

 bone that is really venereal. Mercury itfelf will fometimes 



mercurial courfe, and in our account of the effefts of other bring on painful affections and enlargements of the bones. 

 medicines in cafes of fyphilis, that it would be the moll fu- Even when nodes arc fyphilitic, it often happens that no 

 perfluous prolixity to enlarge on this fubjeft. continuance nor quantity of mercury will totally remove the 

 There is one queflion, however, that prefents itfelf as fwelling. Such medicme is only to be continued till we. 

 deferving confideration, namely, how long a mercurial courfe have reafon to infer all fyphilitic aflion in the part is fubdued, 

 ought to be continued ? We find that it was one of Mr. Whatever degree of thickening or enlargement may now re- 

 Hunter's opinions, that when venereal matter is abforbed, main is only of a common nature, does not demand mercur)', 

 it may produce in parts a difpofition to the difeafe, or, in and frequently admits of being materially lefTened, or even 



other words, a ftate of contamination, which, though it 

 might have beenhindered by the timely effefts of mercury, and 

 may now be. kept from going into aftion as long as the fy ftem 



entirely removed, by blifters, if care is taken to keep up a dif- 

 char^e from the excoriated furface with the favme cerate. 

 Some other cafes, connefted with the fubject of lues ve- 



isunder the influenceof mercury, yet cannot becured, but muft nerea, will be confidered in the articles Phimosls and 



fome time or another proceed to attion, or a ftate of palpable 

 difeafe. In this condition alone it is curable. We obferve, 

 however, that Mr. Hunter, in his pra^Elice, is not altoge- 

 ther regulated by this principle ; for in his direftions for the 

 cure of a chancre, he recommends mercury to be followed 



Paraphimosls. See alfo Gleet, Gonokrikea, &c. 



LUESIA, in Geography, a town of Spam, in the pro- 

 vince of Aragon ; 20 miles S.W. of Jaca. 



LUFF, a fea-term, the fame with /oo/". 



LUFFA, in Botany, the Arabic name of an herb of the 



up fome time after the fore is cured, which medicine being Cucumber family, Aiomordka Luffa, Linn. Sp. PL 1433. 



fuppofed not to be capable of curing the difpofition that may Veiling. iEgypt. 48. t. 50, 51. Cavanilles, 'v\\i\% hones, 



be formed, (and if formed at all, muft have formed ere this,) v. i. 7, t. 9, 10, has applied it generically to a plant called 



the method, according to reafon, can be of no fervice. We by him Luffa frtida, a native of the Eaft Indies, with which 



cannot pretend to dehver an opinion whether the praftice is he thinks it probable that the above Momordica may agree 



pofitively right or the theory wrong. One thing or the in generic charafters. WiUdenow has adopted this Luffa, 



other muft be the cafe. But it h our duty to ftate that the in his Sp. PI. v. 4. 383. How far the difference in its lla- 



generality of furgeons think it prudent to go on with mer- 

 cury a certain time after ordinary chancres are healed. But 

 in the treatment of fecondary fymptoms we believe the per- 

 feverance in mercury, after all palpable fyphilitic mifchief is 

 removed, is utterly wrong and unneceffary. In other refpefts, 

 the mercurial courfe for the relief of fecondary fymptoms 



mens, whofe anthers are all fcparate, and which are accom- 

 panied by five abortive filaments, may ferve to keep it dif- 

 tinft, we very much doubt. As to the fruit, it appears 

 nearly to agree with Momordica Operculata. 



LUG, in Agriculture, a long meafure of land, the fame 

 with pole or perch, fixteen feet and a half. In Gloucefter- 



is to be condufted exaftly in the fame manner as in cafes of Ihire, it however fignifies a land-meafure, of fix yards, or 



chancre or bubo, and according to the diredlions given in 

 our general obfervations. Should the fecondary fymptoms in 

 the throat, fliin, mouth, or nofe, have taken place and been 

 cured by mercury, we may affure the patient that whatever 

 appearances may now prefent themfelves in thefe parts, the 

 complaints cannot be really fyphilitic. Therefore the con- 



tinuance of mercury is not indicated. But though we may fquamsfus of Willughby. 



a rod, pole, or perch of fix yards. It is a meafure by which 

 ditching and other fimilar operations are performed in that 

 diftri£l. This term is likewife applied to the ftick by which 

 the work is meafured. It is fometimes called log. 



l^VG-a-Leaf, a name uled in fome parts of England for 

 the rhomboides of Rondeletius, and the rhombus non acukatus 



venture to predict that the difeafe will not recur in this firft 

 order of parts, we cannot promife as much with refpeft to 

 the fecond order, •ui%. the bones, periofteum, and tendons. 

 Whether thefe have contrafted the difpofition, or, in other 

 words, are contaminated or not, can never be known rt^r/or/. 

 If they have contrafted the difpofition, this cannot be cured 

 by mercury, but will, fome time or other, take on the fyphi- 

 litic aftion, or, in other terms, fall into a ftate of obvious 

 and palpable difeafe. It is only in this laft condition that mer- 

 cury can exert its beneficial power in eff^efting a permanent 

 cure. Were this medicine given under the idea of preventing 

 fyphilitic mifchief, it might indeed delay the coming on of the 

 complaints, but after the difpofition has been formed, they 

 muft fooner or later follow. Mercury was fuppofed by 



We have it on our own ftiores ; and the Cornifti people, 

 who frequently catch it, call it the lug-a-lcaj. See PiEU- 

 RONECTES Plateffa. 



'L.XiG-Jail, in Sea Language, is a fquare fail, hoifted occa- 

 fionally on the maft of a boat or fmall veflTel, upon a yard 

 which hangs nearly at a right angle with the maft. Thefe 

 are chiefly ufed in the barca longas, navigated by the Spa- 

 niards in the Mediterrane.in. 



LUGA, in Geography, a town of Ruflla, in the govern- 

 ment of Peterfburgh, on a river of the fame name ; 8s 

 miles S. of Peterfburg. N. lat. 58' 25'. E. long. 29' 



30'- 



LUGANO, or Laurs, a territory of Italy, ceded to the 



Swifs cantons in 1513 ; it is environed by the diftrifts of 



4 G 2 Mendrit 



