Bd 
’ ‘to t 
which when, Gommincd for a 
HE P 
greater difficulty of recovering their tone, after inflam: amma-" 
tory diftention, — In the extremities of thofe veins, 
than in the branches of the arterial fyitem. When this pe- 
riod is arrived, =o exhibition of mercury is to be be egun 
and its introduction into the fyftem through the abforbent 
veflels of the fkin, by means of fri€tion, is ge y pre 
ferred to the internal ufe of it. About half a dracl 
the ftrong mercurial ointment may be rubbed upon the right 
fideevery night; care being taken to watch minutely whe- ” 
ther the pain or fever be at all reproduced by it ; in which 
cafe it flrould be inftantly laid afide, as no advantage can be. 
expected pad it wander fuch circumitances. 
he right fide 
its e e production of a gem 
le 
ength of t 
From ‘tee sel that 7 patient enters upon t the courfe of 
mercury, it is o change the internal medicine, and 
a flight Tebstists bt fome gr fuch as quafiia or 
ae 
nN; E a neutral falt 
vac ation n. 
degrees, too 
es i broths, &c. till ‘laeuages is is perfedaly reftored to 
e inflammation has gone on to fuppuration, the 
st hares = a on In various Ww: as we have 
a we as noc Sactks Png 
when its pro 
on the external fafa * “difcharge may be S rellitated powd 
th 
by furgical means. As foo 
Y{ 
sat 
” Fadi: scanty of the abfeefs tall hive rascal ‘led 
deelthy t 
Te 
HE P 
The ftone méft generally fo called, — feems to have 
been of the mnt of fome of our poor iron ores. 
HEPATOCE'LE, in Surgery, a caste “ecived fi 
nap, the ios and a a — an ng ‘a hernia: 
i a 
ed in its natural ‘sewer that it could never compofe 
any part of the contents ernia. The records of fur- 
gery, however, tend to. prove the contrary. “Mr. Gay 
and Mr. Nourfe eer the liver in the fac of an umb: lieal 
hernia; and Bohnius rae s, that he did alfo.”’, (Pott’s Chi- 
rurgical Wo a Sot We a oe that a part of the 
liver was feen tea rnia, to which allufion is made. 
The camapled in which a partial protrution of this large vifcus: 
feems mott are thofe which have been denominated 
- bythe French « eventrations,” where an extenfive 
of the abdominal parietes yields, fo as to form a 
_ pouch, with an exceedingly wide entrance. Such eventras - 
tions are apt to take e place, when the fides of the abdomen 
have been deprived of their tone by blows, the diftenfion 
occafioned by repeated pregnancies, &e. 
HEPATOSCOPIA, “Hrarogrnomsay formed of taxpy 
liver, and oxonexy I confider,. in Antiquity, a {pecies of divi- 
nation, wherein predictions were made by infpeéting the: 
livers of animals. 
Heparoscopia is alfo ufed as a general name for divina- 
tion by intrails. See an account of the fymptoms of the: 
liver, whence good or evil were foretold, in Potter’s Ar- 
cheol. Gree. lib. 1. cap, 14. tom. i. p. 316. See Ex... 
. TISPEX. 
HEPATUS, in Jchth es See Laprus and Tue 
~< PRS. 
HEPETIS, in Botany. “Precam 
HEPHESTIA, ‘Hoasrs bay in Aelia an Athenia 
feftival i in tent of ‘AQe:c0;, 7. e. Vulcan 5 the chief cere- 
mony of was a race with torches. For an account of 
the ceremo games, on ae occation, fee Potter’s Ars 
c ~ eee ee Se 
EPHESTIA, in Ancient’ Geog aphy, a sy in the eaftern: 
iit of the ifland of Lemnos, Pe S.E. of Myrina—Alfo, 
_atown of Afia, in Lycia. 
HEPH 
HEPHESTION, j in 2 Big a Greek pg rites of. 
. Alexandria, in the reign’ of ‘the emperor Verus,: wrote 
a work, which is ftill extant, under the title of * Enchiridion ° 
de Metris et Poemate,” of w 
Latin was given by Pauw rech 
quoted by pahionieds a er mi 
relation between the me vical part in 
mufic. ‘The work alladed to ig Fie he ie trica.”” 
ee J Le Ca setinis: 
‘PH THEMIMERIS, er ca A of + 
ot part, int 
Sui- 
ay fevens 
att ade Poetry, 
that. 
and p« 
i a ey pi ha confifting of three feet me a fyllable ; 
fe f feet. - 
- Such are moll of the verfes in Anacreon 
Bon 1 Ast, sae 
evs | i oe j Bitry Ce 
And that ‘of Ariftophanes, in his Pluto 
Execde laa anne 
ee Ife called 
rr, 
ee —~ 
2a 
Hern. 
