DEM 
a died in 1770, at an advaneed age. Eloy. Dia. 
DEMPSTER, Tuomas, in Biography, a atte nid 
born about the year 1579. He was educated in 
pa oe but left his native country, and ftadied for 
fome t Pembroke hall, Cambridge. From thence he 
went i. en where - oe that he had left a great 
pr sees in his own 
credit 
€ eniigiae but was obliged bs ae a 
{chool for his a nc he violence of his temper, 
and = mufeular powers of his bedy, on which he feemed 
to depend, led him into many difputes, the event of which 
pila him to take refuge in England, He brought with 
him a very beautiful wife whofe exquifite features an iat 
attracted uncommon notice in the ftreets as fhe pa 
that, we are told by Bayle, it was with difficulty fhe eal 
proceed, e r next went to Pifa where he became a 
profeflor in the univerfity : here his wife cloped with one of 
his {cholars. moved to Bologna, bas he 
taught member 
t with great reputation ie was admitted a 
dae 
Cc 
eo 
ied 1 5. He nor fe 
man a laws sntiquit, philology, ne the feveral 
branches of ne belles let He alfo * A Mar 
tyrolagy of Scotland, - But pie hiftorical fats have ever een 
w {pi 
is 
has put a number of celebrated guide who a wn not 
Je has 
n there een thus Cras nide 
by M. Baillet, a prieft of his own ao € forged 
titles of books which were neve to raife the plory 
ed, 
of his native country, and has oan ae of feve 
, by which he has loft his credit among men of learn- 
ing. ‘* He was,” ays the learned Bayle, “<a man of a prodi- 
gious itv oh indefatigable, a zealous friend, and a violent 
ad no ders peace nor much honefty; for he 
publithed Tear many fables without fhame. Some 
of bis books were eae by the Inquifition.”” Moen. 
ral cheating 
MULCENT Mepicines, are thofe fubftances which 
tend to obviate the irr tation of acrid and ao ac — 
Y> not by correcting or changing their ony, 
merely by involving it ina mild and vifcid pads hie 
prevents it from adting 1 upon the fenfible parts. This clafs 
medicines comprifes the a a sa or gums, and th 
ils, 
e in a great 
meafure covered . being seb with the mucilage of gum 
ng 
C {t has generally, however, been confidered by 
phyficians, till the t time of Dr. Cul n w the 
be 
therefore in 
quantity, is fuppofed to. extend its eouetioa 
qualitics to the bronchi, and there to correét the ony 
that a coughirg; and it is fpecully Fuppofed . ach 
the urinary organs, aid there to cover any acrimony pre 
ng in ner vine, and thns to relieve Geanaey, ardor sta 
a Sut it is difficult to fuppofe that the demulcent matter 
DEM 
— its mild and invifcating quality, after it has becr 
d 
are common 
the ftomach, See undergoi 
of e ga aftric igucry which all fuch matter un- 
mon with other fubftances 
8 qu bean and render ed. 
afs i 
as fuch, in the mafs of the blood, or in pafling by ue various 
excretions 
efides this general heen with a ag to snaleges 
the confideration of the tity thrown in is of no {mall 
Inc common ys hardly m more ee a few ounces 
~*~ this can com- 
m 
C 
experienee alfo coincides in aaa the corredinefs of at 
opinion, What others may have obferved,” fay 
ullen, “I cannot determine; Sa for myfelf, I can affert 
that, in ianumerable trials, I have never obferved the effe@s 
of gum arabic in the mafs of the 7 or in Sera 
pee from it. ‘The mott frequent occafion for its ufe is in 
the ardor uring ; and in that I have been often slpaeeed, 
and have often found, that two betas of water, or watery 
liquors, — to the drink, w of more fervice than 
rou f gum arabic, pie in en ery fuch addition.”” 
eels Medica, vol. ii. 
In fhort, pas has been 
the practice ot medicine, 
pe eu not unc aie 
upon this fubhj. hen the urine 
is much Silote ‘. its ac oF falts are di iffinfed shroveghe a large 
medium, and irritate the paffages but little. Hence the ee 
fects Abe oo of hqu rid containing aici in folution, 
have been miftaken for the effects of tie mucilage, which it 
contain od. 
In the cafe of coughing, muciiages, which often decidedly 
war it, and fufpend the repetition of it, produce their be- 
&ts not eri imony o incu 
matter ratfed from the lu 
DEMURRAGE, in Trafic, an allowance made to the 
matter of a thip, by the merchants for eying | in a port 
longer than the time firft appointed for his depart 
DEMURRER, in Law, a kind of pul or Rop, put to 
the sha of any adtion, upon is difficult point, 
which muft be determined by the court, Bear any further 
progr can be had in it. 
In every ation, the controverfy is either as to fa, or as 
to a the firft, decided by the jury, the fecond, by the 
court. 
A demurrer is, therefore, an iffue upon matter of law; 
it confefles the fats to -be true, as ftated b 
t 
ngly the © party, aiek 
firft een (dimer, aan in lege), reits or abides 
upon the point in queftion. As, if the matter of the plain- 
iff’s complaint or a be infufficient i in law, as by not 
the defendant demurs 
afligning any {ufficient Gardin then 
o the declaration 3 if, on the other hand, the defendant’s 
cufe or piea be invalid, as if he pleads that he committed 
ce pale authority from a ftranger, without making 
out 
