a 
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ment, than by the ufe of that which is too heavy for 
the 
weakened powers of digeftion, and which, while it fails to 
afford the requifite nutrition, excites an additional febrile 
irritation in the 
. The occafional feverity of particular fymptoms is to 
be reflrained by medicines adapted to the circumftances. 
Thus where a diarrhea, as is mn uncommon in heétic o 
fome cantnvance becomes violent, reducing the body b 
d quantity of the difcharge f om the bowels, 
the ufe sel oe ein with or without the addition o creta- 
The Prec and diarrhcea are “i 
apt to Gena witli each other, and the medicines which 
i the one, are rather liable to induce the other. 
oe after the ‘gener ral introduction o _the Peruvian bark 
medicines, however, as well as the mineral acids, have been 
coca with advantage in the heética adolefcentium, where 
ittle or no cough, and where the ‘heétic feemed 
“to sauiade from a general debility of habit, approaching 
to ef ate fate. 
whole, perhaps, thefe few lines of Dr. Heberden 
contain 8 ie of the practical precepts relative to he¢tic 
general. ** In moft Lies, the principal, if not the fole 
— ~ the phyfician eo be employed in relieving the 
mptoms, -by temperin: heat, by preventing both 
ps Sa and purging, by ‘pveutg a and by check- 
ing the fweats; and if, at the fame time, he endeavours to 
put the body i good general aeakehs as may be, by air, 
exercife, and a proper Souris fond mild diet, he 
do nothing better, than 
12. 
ECTO, in’ the new Mase and Weights of France, 
fignifies 100 times, when ufed as a prefix; thus heétometre 
fignitics 100 metres; and Feet scrig Fat 100 eig 
York 0 — sag ee | 
* tae sere teen 
iS cay faftened 
c was hilles, who ore t 
‘to his chariot, thrice round the w f Troy, and a 
Wards reftored it to Priam for a alarge ranfom. See 
HECUBA, in Fabulous Hiftory, the fecond wife of Prin ik 
mother of He&or Paris, was, according to Homer, 
war. After the cap- 
Menanet to revenge to death of her fon 
: o death by the Greeks. Some 
fay that he be became ailave to Uly and that this prince 
&y 
ae. » coer a mary town in New ee 
oly porte alecoods to Great Britain 
a1. H. Helix, Common I 
3 
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left the unfortunate princefs in the hands of her enemies, 
who caufed her to be ftoned. It is probable, however, that 
Ulyffes himfelf yin the caufe of her death. B 
faid, that upon his arrival in Sici 
with dreams, that in order t® appeafe the gods, he built a 
pil to, Hecate; who prefided over dreams, and a chapel to 
f ae 
Dd; in nine «Se a eet a Sweden, in Weitman- 
idee “ts 2 2m eraks, 
AGIUM, needs fe “ihe a toll or cuftom, paid 
at as hythe or wharf, &c. for fais merchandize, goods, 
& 
2 
The word is formed from heda, a hythe, port, or ibacf- 
From fuch toll or cuftomary duty, exemptions were fome=. 
times granted by the fovereign to particular perfons and 
focieties. 
EDDING, in Geography, a town of slinters in the 
ifland of Zealand; 32 miles S.S. W. of Cop en. 
HEDE’',a tiwii of Septees in Har sasha ; on rtalles S.E. 
of Langafahantz.—Alfo, a town of Sweden, in the pro- 
vince of Weft in ger op 32 miles N.W. of Uddevalla. 
EDE', a. town f France, in the department. of the 
T le and Vilaine, oe. chief place of a canton, in the diftri@ 
of Rennes. The place contains 685, and the canton 9494 
inhabitants, on a territorty of 175 tae in II com 
munes. N. lat. 48°18". W. long. 1° 43’ 
EDEMORA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Dalecarlia, and one of the le aa towns of the kingdom, 
fituated near a lake, well built and commercial. BA this 
town isalarge manufacture of gun-powder ; 53 miles N.W. 
of Upfal. N. lat. 60° 13’. . long. 15° 54". 
2 gia a town of Sweden, in Welt Bothnia ; 30 miles 
N. ok of s lea. 
ner, of five ph A se. €, large ; on one pom tA gibbous 
Ei. Ch. Ca Iyx five-toothed. ° Petals ive, se at the 
Ber : 
ered ew =the ej 
pee, Caira ‘bbe is is the 
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