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LUTTERBERG, a town of Weftphalia, in the prin- 

 i; ality of Grubenhagen, formerly a county ; 15 miles S. 

 of Gofflar. 



LUTTERHAUSEN, a town of the duchy of Ho!- 

 ftoin ; eijht miles from Hamburgh. 



LUTTERLOCK, a ti.uMifliip of America, in Orleans 

 countvi''Vermont, ■^''1-of Craft (borough. 



LUTTER VVOHTH, the only market town in the hun- 

 dred of Guthlaxton, Leicefterrtiire, England, is fituated 

 on the bank of the river Swift ; about two miles from the 

 Watling-ftreet road, 13 miles from Lejceiler, and 83 from 

 London. Leland defcribes • this " towne as fcant half fo 

 bigge as Lughborow ; but in it there is an hofpital of the 

 foundation of two or three of the Verdounes, that were 

 lords of auncient tyme of the towne." This hofpita! was 

 founded, in the reign of king John, by Roife de Verdon and 

 Nicholas her fon, for a priefl and fix poor men, and to 

 " keep holpitality for poor men travelling that v.-ay." The 

 paridi church of Lutterworth is a fpacious itruciure, with 

 a nave, two aifles, a chancel, and a tower with four turrets. 

 The chancel, which is feparated from the nave by a beauti- 

 ful fcreen, is fuppofcd by Burton to have been built by lord 

 Ferrers of Groby, as his arms are cut on the outfide over 

 the great window. By a ftorm, in the year T703, the fpire, 

 which was jo feet higher than the prefent turrets, was 

 blown down, and, fallmg on the roof of the church, did 

 great damage to the body, pews, &c. About the year 

 1740, the whole was repaired, a pavement of checqucred 

 ftone Inid, and all the interior made new, except the pulpit, 

 which is of thick oak planks, of an hexagonal fliape, and 

 has a feam of carved work in the joints ; this pulpit is pre- 

 ferved with great veneration, in memory of the diltinguiflied 

 reformer, John Wickhffe, who was reftor of this parifli, 

 and died fuddenly while hearing mafs December 31ft, 1387- 

 The chair in which he breathed his lall is alfo preferved 

 with great care ; as is likewife another relic ufcd by him, 

 the communion cloth of purple velvet trimmed with gold. 

 His body was buried in this church ; but his doftrines hav- 

 in"g been condemned, his remains were taken up and burned, 

 by order of the council of Sienna, in 1428, and his aflies 

 call into the river. His portrait, by S. Fielding, hangs 

 over the gallery at the weft end of the cimrch. A meeting- 

 houfe for dilTenters was built here in 1777, and is numeroufly 

 attended. Here are alfo a ichooi-houfe and alms-houfe, built 

 by the bequeft of Mr. Edward Sherrier. Among other 

 benefaftions to this town, Mr. Richard Elkington, by his 

 will, dated May 2Qth, 1607, left in trult to the mayor, 

 bailiff, and burgeffes of Leicefter 50/. to be lent in funis of 

 10/. each to iivs tradefmen of Lutterworth for one year at 

 five per cent. ; the interefl to be dillributed among certain 

 poor perfons. In the return to the population aft in iSoi, 

 this town was ftated to contain 277 houfes and 1652 inha- 

 bitants. The cotton manufadture is carried on here to con- 

 fiderable extent ; and fome large buildings have been lately 

 eredled as faftories and work/hops. Many liands are alfo 

 employed in making Itockings. A weekly market is held 

 on Thurfdays, granted, with an annual fair, by king 

 Henry V. in the fecond year of his reign ; three other fairs 

 have iince been obtained. 



About a mile to the ea(t of Lutterworth is Mifterton 

 Hall, the feat of Jacob Henry Franks, efq. who poffefres a 

 collection of pidlures. Nichols's Hiftory of Leiceiterfhire. 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. ix. 



LUTUM, in Botany, a name given by the ancient Ro- 

 man authors to a plant Iince called luteola, or dyer's-weed, 

 and by authors of later date carn'wla, and tymcne. It is 

 uGed at this time to dye things yellow, and was fo by the 



ancient Greeks, wlio cxprefsly mention the dyeing woollen 

 cloth with it. The Roman coOrtezans had alfo a way of 

 dyeing their hair yellow with it. See Re.S£DA. 

 • Luti;m Sapicnlia is the hermctical feal ; made by melting 

 the end of a glafs veflel by a lamp, and twilling it up with 

 a pair of pliers. 



LUTZELSTEIN, in Geography. See La Petitl 



PlERKE. 



LUTZEN, a town of Saxony, in the territory of Merfe- 

 burg, with a citadel. Near this town was fought a bloody 

 battle in 1632, birtween the Impcrialifts and Swedes, in 

 which the latter loft their king Guftavus Adolphus ; nine 

 miles E.S.E. of Merfeburg. N. lat. ^i' 16'. £. long. 



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LUVINO, a town of Italy, in the department of the 

 Verbano, on the E. bank of the lake Maggiore ; 20 miles 

 N.W. of Como. 



LuviNO, Valley of, one of the five diftricls into which 

 the county of Bormio is divided. (See BoK.Mlo.) The in- 

 habitants pf the Luvino pofiefFed certain privileges, parti- 

 cularly the power of judging civil caufes within a certain 

 value ; but they did not appoint any of the magiftrates, 

 who were all chofcn from the other four diftriC'ts. 



LUVIO, a tou n of Sweden, in the government of Abo ; 

 nine miles S S.W. of Biorneborg. 



LUXATION, or DisLOCVTiON, in Surgery, denotes any 

 cafe where the articular extremities of bones abandon their 

 natural relations, whether the head of a bone cfcapes from 

 a cavity deftined for its reception, or whether the furfaces 

 of the joint ceafe to corrtfpond properly one to the other. 

 A luxation is termed complete, when the furfaces of the 

 joint are totally feparated ; incomplete, when they remain par- 

 tially ill contaft, though in a itate of difplacement, with 

 refpeft to each other. Like fractures, didocations are alfo 

 divided mio Jimple and compound ; fimple, when there is no 

 external wound communicating with the joint ; compound, 

 when the cale is conjoined with fuch an accident. 



Other general differences of luxations depend upon the 

 articulation in which they take place ; the direftion in 

 which the bone is difplaced ; the length of time the acci- 

 dent has continued ; and the caufe that has produced it. 



The greater the extent and variety of motion of joints, 

 the more fubjcft they are in general to be diflocatcd. ' Thus, 

 the orbicular articulations, fuch a > that of the humerus with 

 the fcapula, arc thcfe in which luxations are moil frequent. 

 In the ginglimoidal articulations, on the contrary, which 

 admit only of motion in two oppofite direftions, the acci- 

 dent is far lefs common ; and in fuch joints as only allow 

 a flight yielding motion of the bones on each other, a dif- 

 location iHU more rarely occurs. The frequency of luxa- 

 tion, however, in the orbicular articulations, and the com- 

 parative unfrcquency of them in the ginghmoidal, as Boyer 

 rightly obferves, may be explained from many circumllances, 

 independent of the quantity and variety of motion which 

 fuch joints admit of. In the ginghmoidal, the bony furfaces, 

 which come into contaft, and are adapted to one another, 

 are of confiderable extent ; the ligaments which bind thtm 

 together are very numerous and ftrong ; and the mufcles are 

 fo arranged, as to have a iliare in ftrengthening fuch articu- 

 lations. 



We have mentioned, that luxations are diftinguifhed into 

 complete and incomplete, the latter term being ufed, when the 

 furtaces of the joint are yet partially in contaft, though dif- 

 placed and not exaftly correfponding. Incomplete luxa- 

 tions only happen in the ginghmoidal articulations, as thofs 

 of the foot, the knee, and the elbow. In thefe joints, in- 

 deed, the diflocation is almod always incomplete ; as it could 

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