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gDévbs fhire — ftone; the Iceland agate, pumex vi- 
pa bate the b and green, which fome have thought 
to be the lapis Obidianns, of which the ancients forme 
ftatues. The lava is feldom found near the places of erup- 
“tion, but loofe grit and afhes, which compofe the greatett 
part of the Iceland mountains; but when it is grown cold, 
it aflumes an arched form, the upper cruft becoming hard 
and folid, and the melted matter under it remaining liquid. 
This forms large cavities, v whofe walls, bed, and roof are of 
lava, — in which great quantities of ftalactite lava are found. 
Int and there are many caves of this kind, fome of which, 
eer are ufed by the inhabitants for fheltering their 
cattle. The largeit in the ifland is 5034 feet long, and from 
50 to 54 broad, = between 34 and 3 hi ,h. See Ice- 
at and ata AN 
ET; Pini in Biograph by,.a eclebrabed Prench 
Forces was born at Abbeville, in Picardy, on the 11th 
sof February, 1661. At the age of feventeen, after having 
— , domeitic education under the eyes of pious parents, 
he o Paris, where he fludied elolaleg ce theology; 
to hicks lait fe ience he retained an attachment, which great- 
y influenced his cesbaGien and writings. y the perfuafion 
of his uncle, however, he ftudied medicine. for two years, 
and in 16°4 went to Rheims, where he too degree of 
M. D. -» and then returned to —— to commence the 
3 into all 
the autterities of ee place, ea devoted himfelf ardently to 
. attending 
the poor; and by excefs and over-exertion in thefe 
refpects he almoft delkcsped = health -and conftitution, fo 
that his: friends prevailed upon him to quit Port-Royal in 
a Fa at re a following, - was entered of the faculty 
aris, received the doétor’s ca p from 
t more ane faculty. He rofe to high reputation, 
ot a practitioner and teacher of medicine, which was 
ovobebly: apesgpe ne than impeded 
feverity of his m He was a declared enemy to 
luxury of the table ort patron of abftinence and vegetable 
diet. 
was expofed by Le Sone in his character of Sangrado: yet 
he was much in Sage efpecially among thofe of the Jan- 
fenift party. He refufed bie all affiltance to no one, however, 
while his health allowed him; but he always attended the 
whom his door was at all times open. 
In 1710, he was chofen of to the hofpital of 
harité, the duty of which erformed with all the zeal 
of. shee carrying his eel and attention to the poor 
obj of his care beyond his ftrength. In 1712 he was 
sheeted dean of the faculty, in which office he introduced a 
of medicines, or pharmacoperia. 
of the year 1726, infirmities multiplied u 
_ ffered an almoft total lofs of power in the legs and eam 
3 upon which he. a payee - quit public lif 
psec the various offers of ac tion, 
which he received, he at agi acceded to that af the Car- 
nuns, in the fuburb of S 
{mall apartment, continue the insite of his 
sed with great r is Even in this retreat, he did not 
abandon the duties o: his 5 proffion ee itill his door was 
*~ never fhut againit tho to conf peice: 
larly the poor, rH — the fed and father. 
whatever hour, or. whatever mig ht be his occupation, on 
wee fre Of id espn at nie knew their in- 
~ 
by the religious - 
all 
or the ufe of the lancet and diluents 
La Hoffman, Sydenham, 
HEE 
ability to purchafe the medicines, or to purfue the | regimen 
Ww ne recommended, 3 generoufly furnithed them witli 
the means. e die pril 1737, at the age of 76, 
and. was buried -in the ahbath of. the Carmelites, where 
=“ tomb is diflinguifhed by a Latin epitaph, compofed vd 
ollin. 
Hecquet was a man of great-reading, and a osaleldis 
writer, a great advocate of the principles of the mechanical 
{chool, and adverfe to the ufe of chemical medicines; he 
entered warm ly.3 
_. sa but it fhould oe pestis: to ri neki: 
credit, that, although fo much attached to the Janfenitts, 
he wrote againft the fanatics, who exhibited their a 
fions in the cementery of St. Medard, and proved that ther 
was et = in their exhibitions. See Elo 
HECTIC Fevae, a Medicine, a flow, and irregolatlp 
remittent fever, commonly accompany ing fome local difeafe, 
and efpecially a HERDANGS or Larue of fome part o: 
body, either internal or ex 
The word z" derived hess the y goo hesisy 2scy the habit 
of body, whence heéfica, ixtv}, or pele eferat iui an 
habitual or conftutional fever ; becaufe s believed b 
the ancients that the whole habit was difeated j in is ee 
which they attributed to a conftant preternatural de ee of 
heat, ‘generated and inherent, as it were, in the folids Pol the 
body. The heétic has received various other denominations 
from different authors ; fuch as febris lenta, or ow pauls ; 
JSebricula, or little’ fever 5 ; fuppurative fever, &c. reek 
phyficians, how ever, did not confider the he€tica as always 
conftitution, occafioned by atigue, long fatting, anxiety, oF, 
lofs of fleep; and fom ene a confequence of caufusy or 
other fevers. Awari noe brett Mee the fee 
mae 
Paulus Sede lib. i cap. 32, &c.) Several modern 
= likewife viewed the fubje@ in a fimilar light ; ; ‘of ‘hom 
may mention Etamlle er (Opera Omnia, tom. ii. p “a 
Saiseatee (Nofol. Method. clafs ii. gen. 5. -)» avd Dr. 
lan (Reports on the Difeafes of London); as well 
and other writers of authority- 
The heétic fever, under all its modifications, is ti a 
every twenty-four hours, 
hours, with a’remiffion, rather than a 
it 
‘ay ‘ The firft of thefe, he Hemet ar 
ingorsat 
of 
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