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and thé teltes. Itis well cine that the application of cold 
to the furface of the body 
this fuppofed mufcular dartos is nothing but fimple cellular 
texture, which being entirely free from fat, and thereby pof- 
fefling a ftringy and fibrous appearance, and often hae a 
reddith colour from the numerous blood-veffels, whofe rami- 
otion taking place 
mftances of ell applied eg aa aes &e., 
feems to be panes hat occurs in the of the 
body 3 in general ; hae eed ftate of the integument 
is produced, together with eculiar roughne fs of the fio, 
giving rife to the appearance calted cutis aay and ae 
place faaepen ae of any mufcular coatraGio 
U, in Botany, a name n by pn and Se- 
rapion to a {pecies of a aaa ee pee the latter author 
calls the tentifk. This grew up to a very large tree, and 
bore a much larger and more beautiful fruit than the com- 
mon turpentine- -treé, 
Daru, in Geography, a town of aia in the province 
of Kermaa; go miles N. E. of Sir 
DARVERNUM, in Ancient Cay. See Duro- 
VERNUM 
DARW AR, or Danwar, in Gergraphy, a confiderable 
fortrefs of Hindooftan, i in the country of Sanore. one of Tip- 
the dominions of the Paifh- 
o E.N.E. of Goa. 
N. lat. 16° sl E. long.75° G’. 
DARWEN, a river in England, in the ee of Lan- 
calter, which runs into the _ near P; refton 
DARWENT. See Derwen 
DARWIN, Erasmus, in bee. equally famed as a 
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r. Burrows, at the grammar-ichool at Chetterfield, 
with a he was fent to St. John’s College, at Cambr ridge. 
There he ony ee pies until he te his bachelor’s degree, 
in medici urgh, to complete his 
ft oe ; whieh beiog finifhed, and having taken the degree of 
door edicine, a pro effion to ich he was always red 
there commenced h 
Being fent for, foon after his slo 
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urhood, who was ill wit th fever, and in fo dan ngerous a 
ie that the attending phyfician had given up the cafe as 
hopelefs, the d rei had the good fortune to reftore him to 
health. ‘This gave him fo high a degree of reputation at 
Litchfiel d, oe in the neighbouring towns and a that 
his compe aa who was b e, find- 
auic 
Derwin foon 
fons, who lived to thea f them 
furviveds the third, Dr. Darwin, is now in 
confiderable pradtice as a phyfician at Shrewfbury. In 1784, 
our a having marrieda fecond wife, removed to Der rby, 
continued to refide to the time of his death, which 
n the feven- 
Six children by his fecond lady, with 
their mother, remain to lament a lofs of him. 
The doctor was of an athletic make, much pitted with 
the {mall-pox. He peer we in his fpeech. He 
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ha d enjoyed an almoft uninterrupted good ‘tate of health, 
until t ik the ae ufion of his a — - attributed, 
Dr. Darwin thefe notices are principally taken, gives bim 
the credit of having introduced habits of fobriety among the 
trading part of Litchfield, where-it had been the cuftom to 
live more Meee before he went to refide there, 
cafioned by a fit of what he was ufed to call angina-petoris, 
which he had feveral times sree, and always relieved 
by bleeding plentifully. 
Dr. Darwin was a votary to poetry, as well as medi- 
cine, he yeu fent his effufions in that way, to one or 
other of the monthly eae apa but witho name, 
conceiving, from ae example of Akenfide and Armitrong, 
that the aaa a might acquire by his poetry, would 
advancemeut in the practice of medi- 
cine. His + Botanic Garden,” i in which h 3 what he 
calls the Loves of the Plants, the firft of his poems to which 
t his name, was not publithed until the year 1781, 
when i. medical fame was {fo well eftablifhed, as to make it 
in the fecond of the Loves of the Plants. 
the defign, the brilliancy of the diction, full of figu 
‘ioe in sal ich every 
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w hic co oe nied has “a a great degree fubfided, and it is 
now little noticed. It 
reform, or 
origin on iving Slaments, fafceptible of i Heller ade which is 
the agent that fets t n motion. rchimedes was wont 
and on, and I will move the earth. ~ 
Such was his confidence a his knowledge of the power of 
! » give me a fibre {ufceptible of 
irritation, and I will make a ‘tree, a aoe a hor ae a man. 
6c is eae he fays, Zoonomia, val. i. 
mity of a 
re - i retina is ne extremi-= 
inftance, one of the fibrils 
which compofe the mouth of an aborbent veffel ; I fuppofe 
this living filament, of whatever form whether 
here, cube, or cylinder, to be endued ah the capacity of 
being excited into action, by certain kinds of ftimulus. By 
the ftimulus of the furrounding fluid i in which it is received 
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