Lk i being chiefly characterized by the appearance 
of nd wibices, or purple fpots, and livid effufions, 
as from nthe ftrokes of a whip, or bruifes, unconnected with 
? (by Sauvages,) 
he appellation of 
cies nego _ as even to it by Dr. Adair, in his 
inaugural differtation, Edin. 1789, and, as it defignates the 
difeafe by its two leading fymptoms, the ‘pafli ve hemorrhage, 
and’ a etechiz, it appears to be the mott appropriate term, 
But as Dr. Willan’s nomenclature of cutaneous difeafes, 1 in 
which the old appellation of ** Purpura’? is retained, is Paid 
generally adopted in the profeffion, we th r the 
seiption of this fingular difeafe to that head. 
ZE RHAGIA, or Hamorruace. See He- 
RHOIDS. See HeMorRHOIDS. 
HEM MOR dhafyy in Zoolagy. See Blood SNAKE. 
HEMOSTASIA, formed of asua and sasiz, flation, or 
rf, occurs in fome writers as = e name of a difeafe pctabans 
ing {adden death ; and it is faid to be a total ftagnation of 
the whole mafs of blood from a plethora 
HEMOSTATICA, formed of cdo orig oh Sfrops 
a°name e authors to medicines ufed to” Atop 
given by fom 
hemorrhages, whether internally taken, or externally ap- 
tance in Grogriiiby, 
Mountains, of European Turkey, that 
om Macedonia. 
a mountain, nae a chain 
fepa rates Servia 
c at the elevation Se be confiderable, becaufe no 
fami of it is covered with perpetual {now. The middle 
a cls, while this: si were b: ‘the ancients i 
y point of the Hemus 
Eminch, and oes thence above oa pti and Sofia 
an : | 400 
mineh, or 
H now various names, 
—a Seer a remnant of the scent appelation, 
De Joan W.; 
HHP 
the ancients, continued by the ‘Buffinius and the Albius. 
Pinkerton 
HAEN, ANT 
e 
degree of M. D. at his native plane, he fettled at the Hague, 
ps he praétifed with confiderable fe tmtise and fuecefs 
ears, Baron an * 
m 
the refult of this duty was 2 the coleston “ a sie number 
hed in the fuc- 
of which the fdllbciay is are 
the titles: * Hiftoria ins meee a chi oe 
Medicos paflim fallentis,”’ Hague, e Colica 
Pictonum Differtatio,” ibidem,. 1 pe’ 
«De ee Nachaie 
& Seg fuper Meth 
” Vienna, 1757. * Thefes pa 
de Hemorrhoidibns,” cm 1759. Refutation - l’Ino- 
culation fervant de a M. M. D ondamire et 
Tiffot,’ Vienna, 1759. “ © Thetes fientes febrium diyi- 
— ibid. 1760. & Difficultates ¢ circa modern 
sei ino- 
a M. d apologeticam ied 
pe Balthafaris- Ludovic Tralles, cirea Variolarum 
lationem, &c.’’. ibid. 1764. 
ibid. 17 
65. 
Gruner, in his Medical eased for Viper: fays, Van — 
Haen was a man of great learning and now 
but an enemy to all new marion which * violently op- 
pofed ; as appears from his difpute Haller on prc 
is lity and fenlibility 5 3. winks ine a becdgseshecma’t gt with 
baron Von Storck, on the ule of poifonous plants in 
medicine ; and from his ictratadicd the nature and origin 
information,’’. See Eloy. Diét. Hit 
HAEPRESTITES Lans,j in Natural Hi ifory, a name 
given by authors to a flone of a reddith colour, and capable 
of a high ancients gave it this name, ap its 
roperty ‘fetting fire to dry fubitances by reflection, 
formed ormed into a a concave {peculum. They hence called it’ the 
He which they ote ity rad not the nature 0} of the ftone, was the 
. caufe of the effect ; any flone being c if 
Sp be ia to bear a proper polith. Al 
re we at this time, a fort of 
“Epi iftola de Cicuta, ke. fe: 
¥ in which, how- 
take to be the tn of the ancients, Sand : 
sid home ving large 
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