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rroneous deferiptions of it, which the earlier practitioners 
were thence led to give. We are the more difpofed to 
form this opinion, from obferving the effect of a fimilar 
ice, i This form of the 
herpetic eruption has not been defcribed, we believe, except 
by a writer in the Med. and Phyf. Journal for May. or June 
1810, where an imperfect plate ‘of it is given, It occurs on 
the prepuce; and although unaccompanied b confti- 
tutional affection, ‘its extent being {mall, it chieeies nearly 
‘the courfe of the eruption of the zofter, and its regular 
duration isa fortuight. The attention of the patient 1s 
-ealled to the part by an extreme itching, with fome fenfe of 
heat ; and on examining the prepuce, he finds a fmall red 
which are cluttered five or fix minute 
tranfparent velicles; thefe enlarge, and, in the courfe of 
; i milky opacity, 
and on the following day | look puftular, ee foon break, ef- 
Sead ee feated:in the i inner aoriee of the prepuce, fo as 
o be.c 
sreitabbe, heal about ps thirteenth or four beech 
. Qintments appear to irritate them, increafe their fore- 
nefs and aia and delay their healing. We once faw, 
_in an individual wh 
. thefe ulcerations miftakes for venereal chancre, and the r 
oxyd of. mercury applied to them ; the confequence was an 
increafe of the ulcerations, and of their irritability, a hard- 
_nefs hocrousng them, and an elevation of the edges, with 
rable prolongation of the duration of the com- 
It hs recurred repeatedly in the fame individual, 
ether independent of any fufpicious conneCtion, and has 
ei followed the courfe above deleted when not 
' der an 
ereeps, Gertn. fil. v. 3. 187. t. ange’ 
(Moniera. Browne Jam. 269. : 28 f. 3.’ Mi- 
iB oreal-Amer. v. 2. 22 2.—Clais and order, Didy- 
iofpermia. Nat. Ord. Perfonatey Linn. sereple- 
ven Ch. Calyx soe in ~ nda feg ee of which 
aches. 
Si of the anthers dLiverieaed o emarginate Cap. 
calyx, with two _ 
fule inclofed in the gene ally enlarge 
two divided valves; the pat 7 een 
with the valves, bearing the receptacles of feeds. 
An exotic gen of herbs with oppofite leaves and 
flowers, ae of whofe ftalks bears a pair of bra¢teas 
oe Spaa iee © Gratiola Monnieria 
and a few 
of Linnzus, 
other fpecies. The only one found fos Mr. Brown mn New: 
‘Holland is | 
oe H foros « Smooth and upright. Leaves linear lan- 
~ ceolat: "5 of the fruit r retieulated, and fomewhat 
art Bracteas below the we of tbe flowercitalks.” 
his five miles S.W. of Coquimbo.—Ali 
o has had many returns of the oe oe ie : 
author a high reputation, and beer 
HEE 
—It grows within the tropics. NiB. The reader who refers 
to GRATIOLA is requelted to read hy/fopoides: for es popoides 
in the 4th paragraph, and in that after the 6th {pc 
HERPET 
ies. 
, in Geography, atown of Hindooka, i in the 
. of Bom rauzepollam. 
HERPETON, in.Surgery, a creeping puftule, ore. 
“The term is ufed by Hippocrates, and is derived from é 
40 creep. 
HERPIDITANI, in. Ancient Geography, a people of 
Africa, in Mauritania Cefarientis, “te inhabited the Chal- 
corichian mountains E. of the river 
HERQUI, or Erqur, in Geogr iophy; a cape’ on thie 
coalt. of Eeranichy: in the department of the ‘North ‘coaft. 
N. lat. 48 35’. W. long. 2°37. 
HERRADURA, a fea-port of Spain, in which a fleet 
of gallies, under the command of general Don John: de 
rite was loft in 1562 ; between Motril and Velez Ma- 
a.—Alfo, a town ot South America, in the province of 
oO, a river 0 
Mexico, which runs into the Pacific ocean, N. lat. 9°30!) 
NBERG, a town of Wurtemberg, which, at 
feveral times, has been damaged by fire and by hoflile ate 
tacks; 14 miles S.S.E. of Stuttgard. 
HERRENBREITUNGEN, a town of Germany, in 
the county of Henneberg, fituated on the Werra; 20 miles 
W. of Smalkelden 
HERRERA ToRDESILLAS, Antuon NY, in B: opr, 
as. partaking an 
country. Herrera com ‘assted a general hiltory of his timé, 
, Rae 1554 to 1 oo in three volumes folio, He died in 1625. 
oreri 
re 
had wanes: to the greateft exactioaned in the wren poetry of 
Spain. is ftyle is neat, correct, , elegant, and copious. He 
publifhed an edition of ae ela Vega, with notes; 
a life of fir Thomas Mor nd a narrative of the war 
ps2 asad Saker are of Saeledea! -Moreri. 
© DE, furnamed 
painter whe wed ve moat at Seville, a — agra? nr Pa- 
checo in the fchool of Luis Fernandez, a 
— the pencil from that timidity which sody! sil I chen, 
ked the execution of Andalufian painters, and may 
suslichiredk in thee Samoden taser: dalietby0? ib “hou 
among its primitive pu ils, — Velafques ; but, thou 
decided and rapid, Ficrrera: ws anerift 5 his 
i. 
nut defi 
and charm by colour ; fuch i is his Laft. 
pardo at Seville, and a peioost the Cupola ot 
the Elder, an 
epee. 5, ‘i 4 = ‘ 
is, Ee eee ee ate "eae Gta eae te ge ee E 
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