NIC 
year 1503, at Barcelona, and renee at Rome in 1578, 
with the corrections and commentaries of Francis de Penna, 
t ju 
ca given of that horrid Sar which, 
Nicnoxras, Port Sit., lies on the er of Peru, fix 
leagues S.S.E. of Port Cavallo 
NIcHOLAS ee a {mall ifand on the N. pe jof the 
ifland of Cuba. N. lat. 23° oF W. long. 79° 4 
he N. coaft of ‘ iflaud 
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NI rae the og 105 ‘own of Nicholas 
county, in Kentucky; 12 milesS.E. of Lexington. It has 
a court-houfe, and a few dwelling houfes. 
NICH » FRANK, in a a gad a phyfician and ana- 
tomift of emiiente: was born in London in the year 1699, 
where his father was a barrifter. After receiving the rudi- 
ments of his education at a private {chool in the country, he 
was fent to i eencnete and ai to Oxford, where he 
s admitted a commoner of Exeter college in 1714. H 
aiplied himfelf to the nfual academical exercifes ‘with great 
affiduity, and choofiny medicine fo 
a courfe of di purfued ae catch, "hi 
gence and asaetbaa fo as to render himfelf perfe&ly 
matter of this branch of his art. ence he was chofen 
sae of sree in the univerfity, where he ufed his utmoft 
termined to fettle, after havin ea fhort trial of practice 
in Cornwall, and a sae ae vifit to the oacaal {chools 
of France and Italy. is return to England, he re- 
fumed his anatomical and phyfolgical pea in London, 
and they were frequented, not only ents from both 
the univerfities, but by m any Ta yeens, ‘apothecaries and 
others, is reputation rapidly extended, and in th 
year 1728 he was eleGted a fellow of the Royal cael 
to which he comfhunicated feveral papers, which were 
lifhed in the Philofophical Tranfa@tions, ats fome ob. 
0 
fervatious on the nature of aneurifms, in whi contro- 
verted the opinion of Dr. Freind; anda deleription of a fin- 
gular difeafe, in which the pulmonary vein was rs < up. 
In the year 1729, he received the degree o X= 
ford, and became a fellow of the College of  hyflane in 
was appointed to read the Gulftonian 
lectures at the college, and chofe the freadhure - the heart 
and the circulation of the blood for his fubjeéts. At the re- 
queft of the prefident, Dr. Nichols again read th ara 
ftonian paren in 1736, choofing for his topics the 
ergans, and the nature and treatment of calculous difcias 
and in 1739, he delivered the ana eeuey arveian oration. 
In 1743, he married one of the daughters of the celebrated 
r. 
Vox. XXV. 
NIG 
Dr. Nichols was appointed leGurer on furgery to the Col- 
lege in 1748, and began his courfe with a learned a ele- 
gant differtation on the *“* Anima Medica,” which was pub- 
lifhed as a feparate work in 1750. While he was prccecis ng 
with his courfe, however, he received what he confidered 
an infult from the College, who chofe a junior eed as an 
ele, on the death of Dr. Coningham, in n preference to him, © 
without any apparent reafon; an 
his le€turefhip, never afterwards ove ing the meetings 
the fellows, except when matters 
itt, Dr. Maule, Dr. Barrow- 
by Sale a and fir William Browne, fir Edward Hulfe, 
and the Scots, were the objects of his fatire. 
On the death of fir Hans Sloane, in 1753» Dr. Nichols 
was appointed his fucceffor as one of the king’s phyficians ; 
an office which he held till the we of his rae a 1760. 
An offer of a penfion was made to him, if he 
afked for it, but he rejected it with difdain. 
ous a fecond edition of 
which w hee 
[om 
ee 
oO 
pAU) 
“< 
7.) 
= Sanguinis in Homine nato et non nato,’’ infcribed 
to his ‘earned friend and coadjutor the late Dr. Lawrence. 
eary at length with his profeffion, and with a refidence 
mainder of his life in a literary retirement, varying 
creations by an attention to the recent botanical refearches of 
Linnzus, an ontti- 
tution 
fevere catarrhal affeCtions, and an afthmatic cough, which, 
returning with great violence in January 1778, deprived the 
world of this valuable man, in the eightieth year or his age. 
eu Mag. for 1778. Hutchinfon, Biograp e 
NICHOMACHUS, one of the feven ‘Greek writers 
on mufic that have been preferved, and colleéted and pub- 
lifhed by Meibomius, who fuppofes him to have flourifh 
in the tim He is the only G 
aa divided into two 
boska rft he treats of the elements of harm ony 
(by which nie ancients meant melody, or mufical intervals 
fit for fong or melody) ; of the two kinds of human voice, 
that of fpeech, and that of fong ; of the _ of the 
{pheres, or harmonical proportions in cae diftan 
three genera 
NICHOUAN, in Geography, a town of oem in the 
province of Irak; 20 miles E.N.E. of Con 
NI 
CIAS, in Biography, an Atheran o of confiderable 
note, 
