FRI 
mendation of the French court; and his revenues commo onl 
iocefe extends 
ning 5,011. 
of Mr. te in his “ Hiftor 
pol ffeffion 
“a co saitell © ccor rdin 
it formed, with the addition = the bailkanes of Morat and 
Schwartz 
Switzerland, deputin four reprefentatives 1 to the general 
di ‘ec i 
n " Friburgh 
N. E. frown 
» Oo 4 
URG, a town of Bavaria; 15 miles 5.58. E. of 
"FRIBU S, a town of Bohemia, i in the circle of Eirbogens 
nine miles W. of Joachimftel. 
RICALA, a iy of European Turkey, in eee) ; 
dith, or mefs, aoe drefled i Ina fry- 
in pan, and feafoned with butter, oil, or the lik. 
athe word is French, formed of the Latin an ok 
Cie will have fricaffee formed in imitation of the 
rt made by butter, or other fat, when melted in the 
PW fay a fricaflee of miles or rabbits, of tench, of 
tripe, of frogs, of e 5B 0 peas, &c. 
FRI ’ CHIOR, Bio, graphy, a. *shyfician, 
who prattifed his profeffon at Ulm inthe latter part of the 
feventeenth century. Refpecting the — circumftances 
of his life, little fas been recorded ; but he feveral in- 
terefting works on medical fubj ects, of which his ‘treatife 
on, the — ee ge a va poifons deferves particular i 
mention. He was one of the to demontftrate to the pro- 
feffion, from on es and authority, that poifon- 
us fubftances’ may be ploye it anger 
internally and externally ; and that, deleterious as they ar 
ma ain quantities and certain occafions, the prudent 
an may derive from them. the mo ac 8 .reme 
experim nen au Fow. es &e. 5 3 an 
thefé fubtances are now refor ce as fome of ‘the mo 
active agents of the materia ae € following are the. 
titles of | the publications of Friccius... 1.. iffertatio 
Medica de Pefte, feu, nova Methodus cognofcendi et curandi 
Peftem m;’? Ulm, 1SBa, “Toon Podagrz,: reprefentans 
a 4k. 
f of St. 
enburgh, one of the 17 departments or cantons of . 
FRI 
morbi podagrici la caufas, prognofin, et Cilrationem,’? 
3. Tra 
Ibid. 1693.— us Me dicus ¢ de Virtute Veneno 
fedica,”’. Ibid. on ree “De oe {corbutica,” 
Ibid. 6.—5. Parad edica in quibus plurima 
fe) 
curiofa et utilia contra communes oe orum Omaeie per- 
gare f ae i id. 1699.—Eloy. 
CENTI, in ‘Geography, a nae o Naples, in Prin- 
Ccipato ca the fee of a bifhop, pai with Avellino; 18 
sae Ao Es of Benevento. N. lat. 4 9" ne I 5° a5 
ife, and S luad 
a diligence and pene that he was 
as a pro er perfon fo 
year 
his tdi ~ Lis 2 
t 
Amb cele, which en “ Pat in two volimes 
folio, in 1686, and, in 1690, enriched with notes, various 
readings, remarks, &c. Fiche’ was afterwards employed to 
ie a or the prefs a new edition of the works.of Ste 
Gregory Nazianzen, but he died before he could complete 
his ae which happened at. Paris in 1693, when he was 
Friche was likewife author 
_the Bene- 
ditine ome of the v f t < e ha 
wife the _profefforhi of rhetoric at Thiron witht 
much ae 
FRICIUM, of po 7 rub, in Phoenag, a name given 
to fuch medicines as are intended to be rubbed into the fe- 
veral parts of the body. The ancients had three kinds of 
frie, the dry, the fofis and the liquid ; the firft was ufed 
in the way of fumigation, the fecond’ was bound on. the 
par rt with cloths, and the laft was ufed by way of embro- 
tion 
FRICKTHAL, in Geography, a diftri&t. on thie dete 
bank of the Rhine, which the emperor of Germany — 
to cede to the French republic by the treaty of Camp 
Formio and that of Luneville. 
FRICTION, in a general fenfe, the ac& of rubbing or- 
grating the furface of one body againft that of another, 
called alfo attrition. 
he phenomena arifing upon the friGion of divers bodies 
under different circumftances, are very numerous and con- 
fiderable. . 
ir. Hawkfbee gives us a.number of experiments of this 
kind ; particularly of the attrition,. or fri€tion of glafs, 
under various eae the ih It of . which Was, — 
Trics and ELzc RICITY. 
Fr RICTION, in Mechanics, denotes the, refiftasice a | moving, 
body meets with from the furface on which it moves. 
FriGtion arifes a the roughnefg ox afperity. of the fur- 
face of the body 
off; but. ne wit 
be aia without .a aoe impreffed: : 
applied. to. move the body is either, “wholly, or. partly, fpent™ 
on this effect ; and _ there ariles a refiftance, or 
friction, which. will be, greater, « ceteris cad ibus as the emig 
hence 
