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with great ase pie that time. It was here that i 
coile&ted obferv the nature and treatment of 
that difeafe, which i publifhed in the year 164 
4, in 4to. 
at Amfterdam. As he followed tke method, pretty génerally » 
adopted in all fevers, of keeping the patients, in warm, clofe 
apartments, and gave them mithridate, and other heating 
medicines, calied Alexipharmics, it may be fuppofed his 
fuccefs was not remarkably great. ‘The book, however, ob- 
tained great credit, and has pafled through many editions. 
In 164 
anatomy, proc m great credit, and were no lefs ufeful 
to the univer, pen: thither a tas conflux of pupils. 
In 1651, s made ordinary profeffor, he 
appointed nee of the univerfity, and continued in high 
efteem to the time of his death, which happened Nov. 17 
1674. In 1649 he publifhed “* Oratio de reducenda ad 
Medicinam Chirurgia,” and in 1664, cay waren prac- 
ticarum, pars prima et fecunda, de morbis wa set t Tho 
' m 
is Haan 
affed through numerous editions, P 
ifhe a i674, 4to. It is a compilation, but ie in terfperfed 
with fomeon in cbebte vations. The platesare principally from 
V 
i 
his works olleted and publifhed together, under the 
title of Opera Omnia,’? by his fon Tr e 
broeck, in folio, This was reprinted in two volumes, 
publifhed at Geneva in 1687. Ic seer befides the eons 
above-named, ** A Treatife on the Meafles and Small-pox, 
a Century of Obfervations in Medicine ve Surgery, and a 
Third Part of Difputations containing Accounts of Drfeafes 
of the lower Beily.”? Boerhaave Methodus Studii Med. 
Eloy. Did. Hitt. 
DIEMERIS, in the Ancient Mufic, a word ufed fome- 
times alone, and fometimes joined with the word phorbeia. 
It expreffed a fort of bandage, ufed by the ancients, to tie 
up ae lower lip in playing on the pipe. ‘The other kind 
of phorbeia contited only of one Aa aa piece, which 
went down the cheek, and one tran{verfe one, which covered 
the whole mouth, but a hole cut into it to admit the 
mouth-piece of the pipe See PHoraza. 
I E, in Geography, a {mall town of France, in the 
department of the Can tal; 15 miles N, of St. Flor 
DIENSES, in Ancient Geo 2graphy . ee aad of Gallia 
Narbonnenfis, placed in the vicinity of the Rhon 
DIENSIS Co conuk, a Roman elon’ in Preria, a coun- 
try of Macedonia. Ptolemy calls it Dion. 
DIENVILLE, in Geography, a {mall town of France, 
in the department of the Aube; 9 miles N. W. of Bar-fur- 
ube. 
DJEOUABYS, a hofpitable tribe of Arabs, compofed of 
about 2000 men, and poflefling about 60 horfes, who lead a 
fhepherd’s life, and encamp every winter on the banks of the 
Natron lake in Egypt with their flocks. During this time 
they are employed im carrying natrom and prickly reeds ; 
they have alfo fome traffic in dates, which they fetch in 
caravans from Sioua in the Ammonian Oafis, which is a 
journey of 12to15 days. Thefe Arabs are “ marabouths,” 
or peaceful people, who wander here and there to find water 
and pafture for their cattle. They never make war ; and only 
take up arms for felf-defence, and this they rarely do; they 
almott always trade for money. 
other tribe their ancient cuftoms ; 
herds, and refufe to engied the foil. nners are 
mild and fimple; though they are fubjeé e occafional 
turbulence of paffion, pardiealsily that IF ae clofely allied 
n° The Arabs always carry w 
was alfo twice: 
DIE 
to jlaty in the eaft, and fometimes hurrying them into 
the cruel ex ceffes, The cloathing of the Djeouabys,. 
coal of an ibbram and a bernous, a kind of cloak, fimilar 
to the furplice of thofe who officiate in the Romifh church, 
made .of white wool. This fluff, which is ufed for the 
cloathing both of the men and the women,'is manufaGured 
n Barbary, and it is bought at Cairo, but chiefly at Alex- 
andria, The wealth of the Djeouabys, and of the Arabs of 
- defertin general, confifts in camels and fheep, whilft that 
of the Arabs who dwell in Mah Se confilis in large cattle. 
reat part of their 
wealth, in order to furnifh their Rene camps. ‘They pre- 
ferve their chopped ftraw and their grain in large pits under- 
ground. ‘Ihe neighbourhood of a well of freth water, a few 
of land of a {canty produ&, or falt lakes that can be 
on in ce dele $ pees the fand, known b 
outward brie i The Djeouabys, 
in order to prevent haa! ete oe oo — tribes, 
se and furnifh 
of t ra 8 is a pike, whic 
Shee as rity. They manage their horfes with equal {ki 
nen never attack in line, “but always like foragers, utter= 
ae at the fame time loud cries and invedtives ; a eir bel e of 
fighting being meels that of hght troops. T In gee 
neral but ill equipped ; their fire-arms and Beet ies are very 
bad; their bails ore not well caft ; the pewder is granulated 
in an inartificial manner, and is for the moft part charcoal; 
which they carry in a wooden flaik, and the balls feparate ly 
in a leathern bag, feldom charging their pieces with care 
touches. As foon as the Arabs are apprehenfive of an attack, 
.s 
. they feparate into {everal {mall camps at a great diftance from 
each other, and a“ their camels to the tents, Aa as to be able 
to move o oment’s notice. When one tribe is en- 
gaged with arbi, the women com 
ng thefe art hordes of robbers. See Be- 
e 
union amo 
OUEENS. 
DIEP Bay, a bay in the ifland of St. Chriftcpher, near 
ae bay town. 
EP-Bay Town, or Deep town, a town on the northe 
Pr oes coaft of oe illand of S:. Chriftopher. N. lat. 17° 
0’. W. lon. 62° 
DIEPBOU RG. or DiesurG,a {mall town of Germany, 
in the circle of the Lower Rhine, formerly in the eleGtorate 
of Mayence, but fince the peace of Luneville in the grand 
duchy of Heffe Darmftadt, one of the confederated ttates of 
the Rhine. 
DIEPENAU, a town of Germany, in the ay of Wekt- 
phaiia and county of Hoya; 21 miles 8.S.W Hoya. 
DIEPENBEKE, Asrayam Van, in i oe a 
painter and engraver, was born at Bois-le ‘Dae, In 1607, and 
was at fir 
temporaries ; 
direGted his attention to painting in 
time in Italy, and became the fcholar of Rubens, under 
whom he made great improvement. His invention was fer- 
tiiey 
