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two or three indurated parts, of fmall dimenfions, may be 
difcovered in the ham and inner part of the thigh, and now 
the whole limb is in general highly oedematous. When one 
of bees indurations burfts, a large quantity of pus is dif- 
charge 
Reoring to Mr. Pearfon, the oedema purulentum comes 
on without any evident caufe. This gen ntleman has hitherto 
feen it only in young perfons, iat were under the age of 
twenty years, and of a f{crofulous h 
During the firft ftage of this conplaae diaphoretics, 
combined with opium, are recommende on 
puration has occurred, Per uvian bark m 
The fulphuric acid is alfo an eligible remedy. 
en the abfcefs has burft, Mr. Pearfon recommends 
applying dry lint and common digettive, care ae taken to 
the part, at each time of drefling it, with Bates’s cam- 
phorated lotion. A roller will alfo do goo 
CEDEMOSAREA, from o1dnpuce and cats an oede- 
matous sean eaeahe jaa ee » flefhy 
CEDERA, any, 0 aan gus in ‘ono r of 
ba Chitin Order once nese vofelfor of Botany at Copen- 
hagen, to e Flora Danica was, at its be eginning, 
entrufted. ae on i ted three v 
540 plates, he se foe = botanical a for a 
r the Dan 
o. Oeceder was born at A 
the age of 63 heat ra Mant. 159. Schreb. ue Wiild. 
Pe at VaR 189. La- 
wast 172.— ont afe and order, 
Syngenefia Polygamia ee. ‘whit. Ord. Compofite Oppo- 
fit Pek Linn. 7 » Juff 
many-flowered, f{quarrofe, ‘e 
than the flower; t 
common a Stam. 
n the 
a igmas 
Seeds 
d calyx 
the perfe& cpt. 
the ae of the latter linear, deciduou 
Eff. Ch. Partial calyx many-flow ved. 
sa ie with one or two tem 
apa Down of feveral am 
rolifera. Linn. Mant. 291. 
(Bupth ~~ epee Linn. 
was 
Florets tubular, 
ae, digas, Receptacle 
O. pr Suppl. 391. a 
Brod. Sp. Pl. 
Am 297. )—LLeaves opp. 
Stem 
oO 
narrow, acute, ahannelled, nr abounding towards the 
end of the branches, green. Flowers terminal, folitary, 
OED 
yellow. Seéds compreffed, lightly furrowed, fmooth, light 
z. 0. aliena. 
v.2. ¥4. te 154. 
bles Sym: gi. Banks. M 
zy 
3 
Linn. Suppl. g90. Jacq. Hort. Schoénb. 
Frag. a -2.f.9, (Arnica iriuloides ; 
» ré- 
of the Mari aid 
lendula. 
es i: an Arnica, under which name it appears in the 
herbarium of fir Jofeph Banks. 
. hirta. Thunb. Prod. 169. Willd. n 
ovate, entire, hairy.—This is alfo a Cape plant; but we 
know not that it is any where defcribed or even noticed ex- 
cept by the authors above quoted. 
OED , or OpERN, in Geography, a town of 
axony, in the circle of pices 9 miles E.N.E. of 
Chemnitz. N. lat. 50° 48’. ong. 13° 7/. 
ICNEMUS, in dhe ology, the name of a bird called 
alfo charadrius by Gefner and Aldrovand, and in Englifh the 
Stone CURLEW ; whic 
OEDJ ONG ee in eon atown on the N. coaft 
of the ifland of Jav 
n. 3.— Leaves. 
er of e pollo, according to the an 
ea panto having oe the fon of Laius w ould 
his father’s murderer, he was yiven immediately a his 
birth to a fhe herd, in coins to be expofed to wild beafts. 
In this fituation he was found by the herdfman of Polybius, 
king of Corinth, who brought him to his mafter: that 
prince educated him as his own fon, and gave him the name 
of CEdipus, which referred to the {welling of his feet, 
occafioned by their having been bored in order to hang him. 
on the branch of a tree. When he came to adult age, he 
difcovered that he was not the fon of his reputed father, and. 
o 
“oO 
nts. yt me u 
aaa aie bees their endan the 
matters — part, he had the eae kill his un anes 
er oth a 
againit his father. 
cefs in expounding the enigma of the fphinx, who is repre- 
spe as the moniter that laid wafte the country, raifed him 
othe throne and to the bed of the widow, his own mother 
soa By her he had two fons, Eteocles and Polynices- 
A train of circumftances at length difclofed to him the par- 
ricide oe inceft of which he had been unknowingly guilty. 
Struck with horror at the unintentional criminality in which 
he had been involved, he tore out hiseyes, as unworthy to 
behold the light, and taking fan@uary in the grove of the 
furies in ag there ended Ps miferable life. Jocafta. alfo: 
pat an en her life, and to complete the 
ae were dtmguited by the inveterac 
hatred. The of Cidipve is dry by. chronologiits. 
about the year 12 ive ~ B.C. Uni ift. 
OED MANNIA; in Botany, fo called by aad i in 
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