HE & 
tinguifhed leader in the chemical {choot of medicine, was 
: i tr 1577 
finifhed the ufual courfes of pete sel the {chools of 
Louvain, in his feventeenth year. Be 
~. vantage. Difgufted with books, he quitted his native coun- 
try, Louvain, and 
ie ufe of certain chemical remedies, re-called his attention 
to medicine ;_ and although he defifted from vifiting the fick, 
ceed belief, and. | 
and mineral bodies unexamined. In the courfe of thefe in- 
veltigations in his laboratory at Vilforde, he neceflarily fell 
upon the difcovery of feveral of the proda&s of decompofi- 
tion, and of new combination, which chemiftry affords: 
among thefe he ‘feems to have been the firft to notice the 
{pirit of hartfhorn, the fpirit of fulphur 
it was called, and the aerial ° 
which he firft denominated he German gei/?, 
ghoft, or {pirit,) and feveral other ubftances. A 
: icles poffefling confiderable inYuence 
upon the living body, which, - being contrafted with the 
inertnefs of the fimples of the Galenical praétice, roufed 
and confirmed his former opinions againit the dorines o 
that fchool ; which he now attacked with great ardour and 
ftrength of eg iioen ment, and which he greatly contributed to 
erth He thewed the abfurdity of the Galenical hy- 
thefis of the four elements, i . 
degrees of thefe, and ‘the four humours, all equall 
tuitous; and pointed out the confequent falfe ‘and erroneous 
gas, (from t 
eral other fubftane mong 
@ were man 
rom 
HE L 
Curatione, contra Johannem Roberti 
r His next pub- 
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longam.’’ 
have been reprinted at various times and places, and in various 
ft ifterc 
chinfon, Med. Biog. . Biog. - 
ELMONT, JAQuES VAN, was an hiftorical painter of 
confiderable repute among the Flemings. He was fon and 
Hien 4 which his co have almoft all exhibited. 
Many of the churches, convents, and public er in the 
Low Countries were adorned with his works, fome of 
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which have been tranfplanted to’ the gallery of the Louvre. 
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‘4ELMONT, in Geography, a town of Brabant, on the Aa). 
with an old caftle ; 13 miles S.E. of Beis le Duc. 
HELMO 
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and other parts of proportionate folidity. This cattle is-faid 
Ra 
(Cologne, who wav himfel attache nd, Poke ee ee le from 
held him in great efteem ; and he received from the emperor Helmiley. "Th houfe burgh, 1 
Rodolph IT., and his two fucceffors, invitations to the court te Dake she 66nd a. 
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