DE WU 
when he wasin the 85th year of his age. This account we 
have from his fon, ae named John, who fucceeded to the 
honourable ftation, held by his father. It does not appear 
that the father had publithed, or that he left any thing 
written on the fubject of medicine, but the deficiency was 
abundantly fupplied by the fon, who befides fome not in- 
confiderable original works, introduced to his countrymen, 
as editor, or tr ranilat tor, a great number of medical ina 
ee ae by foreigners. Among the tranflations, are « Allen 
eae eae Practice ;”? “ Harris de Morbis mee 
m 3’? ¢ ne . Gono thoea;?? and ** Friend’s Eim- 
omes of Anatomy,” by Hei 
original works are, “ Le M 
ou l’art de fe conferver la fante, par inftind.”’ 
d. 1682, 12mo. Difeafes are caufed, he fays, by reple- 
tion in the veffels, and by corruption of ‘the contents of the 
bowels. They are to be cured by bleeding, by emptying 
the bowels, and by abftinence, to prevent a re-accumulation. 
Fe cenfures . phyficians for their general want of fuccefs 
fhews them that illiterate countrymen fre- 
performing. 
D» o 
mp.”? Paris, 1727. 
aa : ha in pions who have been ftrangulated, pot- 
foned, &c. Both this and the former works have gone through 
feveral editions 
EUBACH, in Geography, a village of Germany, in the 
duchy of Saxe- Codust s for its brooms, bafkets, and 
hampers, with which it carries on a oo trade. 
DEUCALEDONI], or Careponu, in dn re Geo- 
graphy, a people who inhabited the eee part e ifle 
of Albion ; called by Ammianus Marcellinus Dicaledoncs, 
See CaLzponta. 
DEUCALION, a name given by Strabo to an ifland, 
ich he places over- a a promontory of Theffaly, in 
the environs of the If. 
LION, in ology, was the fon of Prome« 
nee who married Pyrtha, the daughter of his uncle Epi- 
me Prometheus, it is faid, had been banifhed into 
eet to the confines of Caucafus, during the wars of the 
‘Titan princes. His fon Deucalion, weary of this melan- 
choly retreat, came and fettled in Theffaly, in the vicinity 
of Phthia, or rather, according to the Parian marbles, in 
Lycoria, near Parnaffus. The era of his arrival is marke 
in the fame chronicle, at the gth year of the reign of Cecrops 
at Athens, which commenced, accor ing to the Arundelian 
» or according to the ac- 
heffaly, near the river Pe 
‘of the = at that time was Phthiotis, from Phthius of 
Arcadia, who had fei €, ac- 
cording - to Paufanias (in Arcad. 
opinion that the deluge which eye in the reign of 
this prince, about the year 1503 B.C., according to Eufe- 
bius’s account, or, according to the marbles 26 years earlier, 
ourfe was pro- 
Olympus, where is the mouth 
it difcharges itfelf into the fea, with t 
water furnifhed by five agen rivers. 
faid, together with a ntity of rain that fell that 
_ laid cd mamas ids is a low country, under water. 
DEV 
(See Herodotus, Li.) Some time after, the waters having 
retired, the country was very foon re-peopled 
waters were affuaged, Deucalion, according to the Parian 
Chronicle, went to Athens, where, in gratitude to the gods 
for having preferved him from the general shai of the 
country, he offered folemn facrifices to Jupit a temple 
which he built to his honour, and which was vill fubfifting 
in the time of Pififtratus, who, at a great expence, re~ 
built it. 
me have fuppofed that Deucalion, whom the ine 
fae reprefented under a variety of characters, and concern- 
ing whom their poets have given a abulous ceca 
was the fame with the p that De 
in Siar. Dioderus Siculus plaka 
ys, that, in the deluge which happened in the tim 
Deucalion, almoft all fleth died. Apollodorus hav'ng men- 
tioned Deucalion #v-Asguxxt, configned to an ark, takes notice, 
upon his quitting it, of his offering up an immediate facrifice, 
Ai-dudio, to the god who delivered him. As he was the father 
and univerfal monarchy ; though_ “he reduce 
to a petty king of Theffaly. oe Rhodius makes 
him a native of Greece, and the f Promet 
ieee to king of Greece. Philo affures us, that 
he Grecian ae the perfon Deucalion, but the Chaldeans 
fy m Noe, in whofe time there happened the great 
But as Lucian has ae us the mo 
t which comes 
ofes ; a as he was a 
ane and worfhip of 
fhall terminate this article with an extra& 
of what he ye on the 
Having defcribed Noah eae the name of Deucalion, he 
fays, that the prefent race of mankind are different from 
thofe who firkt exifted ; for thofe of the antediluvian world 
were all deftroyed. The prefent world is peopled from the 
fons of rapes ita having increafed to fo great a number 
In refpe&t to the former brood, they 
They 
was fhewn to him 
prefervation wa 
family, beth his fons and a 
vi 
pairs ; 
no evil from them: for there sersiled a wonderful har- 
mony throughout by the immediate influence of the Deity. 
Thus were they wafted with him, as Tong as the flood 
3R After 
endured, 
