NUX 
fubje& may be a more fully handled in the Phytologia 
of the above autho ere a number of interefting circum- 
ftances are een os view on the fubj 
NUTRITUM, in a is a denomination given to 
a deficcative, cooling unguent, prepared by the agitation 
and nutrition of litha als oF ee with oil and vinegar, or the 
juice of folanum, in a m 
NUTSHED, in Agricul ure, a provincial term, applied 
to young animale, to fignify their being ftinted or ftarved in 
bringing up. 
NUTTER Mour, or Utter, in Geography, a town of 
Ealt Friefland; 9 miles S.E. of Emden 
UREE, a town of Hindoottan; in Myfore; 28 
miles N. N.E. of Chitteldroog. 
WABARA, a town of Bengal; 23 miles N.E. 
of cer da 
X, in Botany, is not only the Latin name of a par- 
ticular ae of feed, (fee Nut,) but is is applied by Tournefort 
generically, to defignate the Walnut. See JUGLANS. 
aes mericana. See Mecsce, Quassia, and Sa- 
PINDU 
Noe “Avellana. See oo 
Nux Galla. See 
Nux Juglans. See ce ae 
See STERCULIA. 
Nux Mauris, in Natural Hiffory, a name given by many 
writers to a peculiar fpecies of fea-fhe It is one of the 
dolium, or concha globofa kind, and a {pecies of that genus 
called gondola 
Nux Moluccana, in Botany. See JATROPHA. 
Nux aaa and Myriflica. See Myristica. 
Nux Regia, the royal nut, a name given by fone authors 
to Aa walnut. 
Nux Veficaria. See Hernanpia and SraPpHyLza. 
Vomica, the fruit, or rather the feed of ke fruit 
y of a large tree growing in feveral irae of Egypt, 
and in the iflands of Timor and ig sna 3; of a trong nar- 
cotic quality, fo as to be ranked n abe rof poifons. 
his is the tree, called by Plukenet ctcurbit ifera | Malaba- 
rienfis, anoplia folis basen fra orbiculari rubro cujus oe 
funt nuces vomice m3 defcribed and figured 1 
the Hortus Vn ee ona the name of Caniram. See 
Srryc 
It is ro und. and flat, about an inch broad, and near a 
ummy matt 
bitter: the refinous part is very sapel Pes P in quantity, 
but intenfely bitter ; ae rectified {pirit has been con- 
fidered its beft menftrur 
This drug is faid to be . an affured poifon for all animals 
Inftances are not wanting of its deleterious 
Caan, followed rs torpor, tremblings, pene and con- 
NUZ 
vulfions, ulually precede the fatal {pafms, or — with 
which this drug i ottal 
f : 
The quantity of feed sbanetl to ea this effe& upen 
a ftrong dow need not be than a {cruple; a rabbit 
was killed by five, and a cat oi four rin and of four 
as a gir 
gate injur caer Batanic pict tee at Ley - 
who has written exprefsly on it, fays, that the vomic nu 
of Timor and Ceylon are, for the human fpecies, se 
lene fudorifics, wal are alfo to be ranked among diuretic 
medicines 
It has been recommended in tertian and quartan fevers, in 
virulent gonorrhceas, as well as an alexipharmic. Fa a O- 
pius relates, that it was given with fuccefs in the 
been recommended by a fucce 
an antidote to the plague, as a febrifuge, as a vermifuge, 
and as a remedy in mania, a aa trad hyfteria, rheu- 
mati{m, gout, and canine madnefs. ith us it is now con- 
fidered, and not sian good reafon, asa ddcterou: drug, 
and is rarely if ever ed as a aan Sweden it 
has been o 
it fupprefled the 
oy 
w er medicines ; but it was followed by a 
i in he omach, a effect i the medicine, ae con- 
nue ong time. Bergius is therefore of opinion, 
as it ‘tho wld only 6a adminfitered in the charaéter of a 
tonic and anodyne in {mall dofes from five te o grains, 
and not till after proper laxatives have been employed. 
Loureiro recommended it as a valuable gaa prs in 
fluor albus, for which purpofe he roafts it till it becomes 
perfeétly black and friable, which renders its medicinal ufe 
fafe withont impairing its effica 
The lignum colubrinum and Ignatius’ $ ae pemahe of. 
the fame qualities with the nux‘vomica. Lew 
x Zeylanica, in Botany. See Srcona. 
NUX LA. See MANABEA. 
NUYS, or Nuesz, in Geography, a town of France, in 
the department of the Roer, fituated on the Erfft, near its 
conflux with the Rhine. This town carries on a brifk trade 
in deal boards and coal; 22 miles N.N. - of Cologne. N. 
lat. ue 10°. E. long. 6’ 35’. See Nev 
Zl, Mario, in Biography, anol) known by 
the name of Mario dé Fiori, a flower-painter, was born in 
1603, at Penna, in the kingdom of Naple " He was edu- 
cated under oo uncle Tomafo Lalini, and being an exa& 
obferver of nature, he employed birmfelf i in copying the 
fineft flowers cuted by his father on a terrace on the roof 
of his houfe. So happy were his imitations, that a dealer 
who purchafed his firft pictures made an extraordinary profit 
in 
