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and hung each by a feparate 
city, ready on any furprize or 
e let down to ftop up the gate. 
the feveral ropes are wound round a windlas, 
an orgue; for if it break one or two of the pieces, they im- 
mediately fall down again, and fill u he vacancy ; or if 
) or two of the pieces from falling, it is no 
hey ft B : 
hindrance to the reft; for being all feparate, they have no 
er. 
xs are alfo ufed for a machine compofed of feveral 
ound to 
fend breaches, and other places attacked. 
ee r Orean.) The firit organ that 
the organ ufed to be filenced. 
Organs were admitted into convents about the tenth cen- 
tury. Inthe time of St. Louis, every {pecies of wind in- 
ftrument had admiffion in the divine offices. .We read in 
the annals of this prince, how devoutly he caufed the mafs 
, and the whole fervice a chant et a déchant, a ogre 
i e organ and trumpet 
fix feet. ; 
Some reprefent the orgya as the Grecian pace. 
Hefychius defcribes it as the {pace comprehended between 
the two hands, when the arms are extended; an{wering to 
the Roman ulna, and our fathom. 
ORHAI, in Geography, a town of Moldavia, on the 
E.N.E. of J 
S. of Saffari 
Reut; 66 miles of Jafii. 
RI, a town of Sardinia; 8 miles ( ; 
in the province of Granada ; 
RIA, a town of Spain, in 
ig miles S, of Huetca. 
Oira, a town of Naples, in the province of 
Otranto; the fee of a bifhop united to Tarento: founded 
by a colony of Cretans. Here Servilius, one of the officers 
of OGavins Cefar, was furprifed by Mark Antony; 45 
miles N.W. of Otranto. 
ORIAGO, a town of Italy, in the Paduan, on the 
Brenta; 12 miles E. of Padua. 
ORIBASIA, in Botany. See Psycuo 
ORIBASIUS, in Biography, an eminent 
TRIA- 
phyfician of the 
r ave 
his age, 
agreeable manners 
tion, but obtained for him 
Julian, who appointed him flan 
elevation, and his fteady adherence to the principles of Julian, 
d him many enemies; and after the death 
e year 36 
e. r, that 
ftripped of his property, and, under Valentinian II., 
was fent into banifhment among the Barbarians e fuf- 
tained his misfortunes with great fortitude ; and th ty 
of his character, together with his Gngular profeffional fkill 
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valuable remarks, which are not to be found in preceding 
writers. At the requeft of the emperor Julian, he made an 
extenfive compilation from Galen and all the other preceding 
medical authors, in feventy, or according to Suidas feventy- 
two books, which are entitled his *‘ Colle&tions.”’?’ But o 
In this work are preferved many ges of ancient writers 
no be elfewhere, and others are given wit 
more accuracy than in the extant works of authors 
themfelves. He afterwards drew u epi “ Sy- 
dreffed to his friend Eunapius, entitled ** Euporiftorum, #. ¢, 
paratu facilium, &c. Libri.”? Photius mentions two other 
works of Oribafius, that were extant in his time, one con- 
as been 
f the medical works of 
tiquity. He was a great colleGtor of recipes and fpecific 
remedies, many of which were afterwards received upon his 
uthority. He fpeaks in terms of much praife, however, 
of the fuccefs of local evacuations of blsod, efpecially by 
{carifications, a practice which had not been much ncticed 
He employed this remedy in fup- 
ve 
vanced age; and he affirms, that he was himfelf cured of 
the plague by it, when it rage Afia, having loft two 
ounds of blood from the thighs the fecond day of thc 
difeafe. Oribafius firft defcribed a fingular {pecies of in 
fanity, which he called /ycanthropia, in which the patient 
anders about mong mbs, as if he we 
is full and curious defcription 
transformed into a wolf. 
of this difeafe has been copied by Paul, A@uarius, and 
others, without addition or alteration, and feems to relate 
oubt- 
ful. See Freind, Hift. of Phyf. Gen. Biog. Eloy Did. 
Hift. de la Med. 
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