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injury may fometimes refult from the fruitlefs adminiltration 
ot ftrong medicines. 
The various organic difeafes of the body, will be found 
URVE. 
OreanicaL Part, is that part of an animal or plant 
deftined for the performance of fome particular function. 
See ORGAN. 
OrGAnIcaL Parts, in Buffon’s fyftem of generation. See 
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little variety, the fingers who organifed had a particular 
remuneration. With regard to the organum triplum, 
quadruplum, which was alfo fimply called ¢riplum or quadru- 
plum, it was nothing elfe but the fame chant with the parts 
organifed with 
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the counter-tenor in the oétave to the bafe, 
and by the treble in the o€tave to the tenor. 
ANNA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 
province of Catalonia; 18 miles N. of Solfona. 
ORGANDO, in Corelli’s concertos, and in general all 
concertos compofed in Italy for the church, is the ripieno 
ORGAS, in Geography, atown of Spain, in New Callile ; 
12 miles §.S.E. of ‘[uledo. 
contents. 
The ancients alfo extend orgafm to the other humours, 
and even excrements, which being accumulated, and coming 
to ferment, demand excretion. 
Quincy ufes orgafm for an impetuous or too quick motion 
of the blood, or {pirits ; by which the mufcles are diftended 
with an uncommon force. ; 
ORGE, L’, in Geography, a river of France, which 
runs into the Seine, 30 miles S. of Paris. 
GELET, atown of France, in the department of 
the~Jura, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrit of 
Lons-le-Saulnier ; 12 miles S. of it. The place contains 
1224, and the canton 10,014 inhabitante, on a territory 
245 kiliometres, ingo communes. N. lat. 45°31. E. long. 
5° 41. 
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ORGE'RES, atown of France, in the department of 
the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tri& of Chateaudun; 12 miles S.W. of Janville. The place 
contains 286, and the canton 6927 inhabitants, on a territory 
cf 310 kiliometres, in 18 communes. 
GIA, a town of Etruria ; fix miles S.W. of Sienna. 
ORGIA, ogy, in Antiquity, feafts and facrifices performed 
in honour of Bacchus, inftituted by Orpheus, and chiefly 
celebrated on the mountains by wild, diftratted women, 
called Bacche. 
Enufebius derives the word aso ts ogyns, fury, madne/s. 
from ofo;, mountain ; becaufe Orpheus removed 
: others from opyas, a place 
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embers of her huifband, murdered by the confpirators, 
headed by Typhon his brother, and being unable to find the 
virile parts, which the fifhes of the ile had devoured, con- 
fecrated the reprefentation of them, which the priefts in 
after times carried about in the fettivals inftituted m honour 
orgies palled into Phrygia; and the knowledge of them was 
brought into Italy, either by the Arcadians, when they plantcd 
rd year. 
were in the night-time ; and were attended with all manner 
The women who prefided over thefe feafts were called 
rgiafte : and the men who performed the fame office were 
denominated Orgiophantz. 
Servius fays, that at firft orgia was a common name for all 
kinds of facrifices among the Greeks, of the fame import 
with the word ceremonie among the Romans. 
ORGITANO, in Biography, a Neapolitan performer 
and compofer for the harpfichord in 1770, the beft which 
ft; but, as a player, much inferior to 
y- 
RGON, in Geography, a river of Chinefe Tartary, 
which rifes in N. lat. 46°56’. E. long. 101° 20!, and runs 
into the Selingue, N. lat. go’. E. long. 106° 14!. Near this 
f 
ace contains 2401, an 
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ORGUES, in 
Fortification, thick long pieces of wood, 
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