ane 
pearing of the waters, Deucalion went forth rom the ark, 
and raifed an ee to God. Diod, Sic. lib. i. p. 10. 
Apollod. lib. i. p.20. Apollon, Rhod. lib. iii. v. 1035. 
Philo Lucian 
Jud. de Premio & Poena, vol. ii. p. 412. 
de Dea bat vol. ii- p. 882. 
Dr. roduces a variety of monumente, that bear 
an obvious ae to the deluge, in the Gentile hiftory, 
befides this account of Deucalion and his flood. Avnalyfis 
‘of Ancient Mythology, vol. ii, p. 193—250. De- 
LUGE. 
DEVELTO, or Zacorta, in Geography, a town of Eu- 
ropean Turkey, in Bulgaria, the fee of a Greek arch- 
bifhop, near the Black fea; 59 miles N.E. ef Adrianople, 
and 106 of Conftantineple. N. lat. 42° 
E. long. 27° 22’. 
DEUELTUS, or Deve tron, in Ancient Geography, a 
town in the interior of Thrace, towards the Euxine fea, not 
It 
under Vefpafian, who fixed his 
yeterans there; from this ilies it took the name of Flavia, 
as it is found upon medals. 
DEVENERUNT, in Law,a writ anciently dire&ted to 
the efcheator, on the death of the heir of a tenant of the king 
good and eee men, what lands ae tenements, by the death 
of the tenant, come to the king (Dyer 360.) This writ is 
now difufed 
DEVENISH, in Geography, an ifland in Lough Erne, 
in the cownty of Ferntanagh, Ireland, which is remarkable 
for fine {cenery. There are in this ifland around tower, and 
the ruins of a priory, which Ledwich fuppofes to have be- 
longed originally to the Culdees, and which afterwards 
under the Auguftinians acquired great pofleffions. It isa 
few miles from Ennifkillen. Ledwich. 
» Henry, in Biogr aphy, a celebrated ac- 
‘Though fkilled in every branch of medicine, and honoure 
with the dignity of doctor in that faculty, he was principally 
of the body, in young that capacity he was 
oe fent for to Denmark, whence he drew a confider- 
able revenue. His knowledge of mechanics did not, how- 
ever, prevent his obferving that much mifchief was done by 
the too frequent ufe of inftruments in midwifery. 
The greateft difficulty to the birth of the child occurred, 
according to his doétrine, from the uterus being placed 
obliquely in the pelvis. In confequence of this pofition, 
the pains or contractions of that vifcus forced the prefenting 
part of the child againft one fide of the collum uteri, inftead 
of prefling it immediately into its orifice. This defect he 
attempted to remedy, by pafling his hand into ke uterus, 
and bringing the ofc of head of the foetus into the 
of the w 
done very ee or abieeliee i in the 
amenefs, may be produced. Deventer fa robably met 
with accidents of the kind, as in ied Lint a his life he 
admitted the neceffity of fometimes open e head of the 
child, and then drawing it away with the ae When 
DEV 
an arm of the child apnea a a his hand into the 
uterus, and brought it away by 
practifed by 
pupils to diftinguith {purious from true labour to 
wiet the {purions pains, by emptying the bowde ae elyters 
and mild eccoprotics, and by iving one or more of his 
long time kept fecret. 
the art, and gave him a decided preference over Maurice 
his almoft immediate precurfor. Satisfied with the principles 
on which his pra€tice was founded, he publifhed, in 1701, 
** Operationes Chirurgicz novum lumen exhibentes, obftetri- 
cantibus,”” Leiden, 4to. It had been before eee Vik. 
in 1696, in his native language. This was follo 
fecond part, in 1724, 4to., ‘* Ulterius examen partuum diffi- 
cilium, Lapis Lydius obftetricum, et de neceffaria cadaverum 
incifione.”” ‘The two parts were publifhed together, much 
improved in 1733, but the work had already been tranflated 
and publifhed in moft of the countries in Europe. How 
long a author continued to live after the emiflion of this 
ad often, he fays, been required to let the world 
know, by advertifement, ‘what kind of defeéts in the form of 
ody e was able cure or relieve, but had not 
thought it expedient to a fo; thefe he has enumerated and 
defcribed at the end of the wor 
- On the o 
nd, when achiid came into the worid club-footed, fo that 
it could only touch the ground with its ankles, he completely, 
he fays, cured the defect, and he was fo fure of his principles, 
that he required no part of his ftipulated pay, until the cure 
was effected. Some time after his death, viz. in 1739, a 
pofthumous work was publifhed on the rickets, i in his native 
language. Haller fpeaks favourably of it, and has given a 
brief analyfis of its contents, by which it gaan ie alias 
fome ufeful practical obfervations. Haller. Bib. C 
: ER, in Latin Daventria, or haat og in Geo- 
graphy, a confiderable and populous town of Holland, chief 
place of the department of Over Yffel, fituated on the river 
Bronchorit. It is 12 miles N. of Zutphen, 66 . of Am- 
suite 51 W. of Benthem, in E. long. 5° 8’. N. lat. 
52° 
DEVEREUX, Rozerr, in Biography, — earl of 
Effex, a perfon of great diftinétion in the r of que 
Elizabeth, was born at Netherwood, in Heveloriilivs, in the 
year 1567. His father, Walter, earl of Effex, dying when 
Robert was but ten years old, left him to the guardianfhip 
of Cecil lord Burleigh. Two years after this event, he was 
fent to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was put under 
the tuition of Dr. Whitgifr, afterwards archbifhop of Can- 
In his feventeenth year he was introduced at 
€ accompanied the earl of Leicelter, 
olland, where he fo much 
in 1588 he acco mpanied the queen to Tilbury, to se the 
Spanith invafion, and was there appointed matter of the 
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