halal 
oap-ftone, home ‘af er, &c. For- 
x the phyfician and an- 
cee have any y reafon to regr a ie ignorance in whic . 
fens of ceryogn a 
ALAC TOIDES, eases s, of yorty milk, a 24000, 
firm, milky, a word ‘ied y the ancients in two P 
different fenfes.“ Some wa it to exprefs oes or ttle 
-warm, with fuch a heat as that of milk jutt drawn from 
the cow ; bien expreffed by it a white, = a 
or m nilky-colour ; others exprefled by it only a of 
tranfparence in fluids. Galen pr aed nfee i it in the 2 fecond 
-of thefe fenfes, when treating of ur 
GALACTOPHAGI, and ae ACTOPOT Ey .in Antiqui- 
.4y, perfons who lived wholly on milk, without corn, or the 
ufe of any other foo 
The words are e compounded of yarc, yarnxlos, milk; Sele, 
‘to eat; and worns, of www, L drink. 
.. aoe in Scythia Afiatica, as the Getz, No- 
e famous, in ancient hiftory, in quality 
galaiovagh ailiccea ters. Homer makes their eloge, iad, 
af 
Piskeah in his Geography, places the galactophagi be- 
‘tween the Ri eee an mountains on one fide, and the Hirca- 
-nian fea on aa 
LACTO-PHO RI Ducrus, in reaped from yx, 
-milk, and Qzpw bear, the la&teals, fo named from the 
milky appeara nee of a fluid (chyle) which they contain. 
The excretory tubes of the a ace are alfo defcrib- 
ed under the fame name. See BRE 
G OPSIA, a ot ee. curing difeafes by 
drinking milk only. The jae bee aie n, and man 
other chronical difeafes, are by many affirmed to be curable 
‘by this means. See Cheyne’s Nat. Meth. of cpring Dif- 
eales 
CTOSIS, of yernorn — to be converted into 
milk, the produdtion of milk ; or the action whereby the 
food, or chyle, is converted see 
GALACTOSPONDA, Tadvarlormorda, 
cand ovovdny libation, in Antiquity ty, a libation made ‘with milk. 
A M, in Ancient Geagraphy , a place of Britain, 
marked in the tenth rout of Antonine, a {uppofed to be 
Appleby between Whitley cattle a Overborough. 
GALA or GALATZ, in Geography, a town of Eu- 
ropean eee in Moldavia, on a lake near the conflux of 
the Prut and the Danube, chiefly inhabited by Greeks; 120 
miles S 5... of Bender. N. lat. 45° 24". os ng. 28° 24". 
A, in Ancient Geography, a country of Arabia, 
called by Seances Galadene, ‘and menti ee by Jofephus, 
and fuppofed to be pane to ee ofes in his account of 
the treaty between Jacob a 
of » LAO!» milk, 
GALADES, in Natural Hiftor Pa an epithet given by 
Rondeletius to a pe es of chama, remarkable for its cael 
whitenefs, It is deriv ined from the Greek [xan mz 
his chama is a very elegant 
GALAFIGUERA, Ca APE, in Geography, a cape on the 
§. coaft of Majorca. N. lat. 39 Bee E. a 2° oats 
GALAICA Reero, in Anes ent Geography, a- country of 
Thrace, in which were fituated the followin WHS 5 VIZ 
Sala, Zona, Mefambria, and ‘Stryma ; and faid by Hero- 
dotus (1, vil. ) to have been header $6 Regis Britan- 
nica.’ 
ear, 7 
Higher 
atown of France, in the department of the 
Pyrenées, and chief place of a-canton in the e diftr ict 
of in n pieces of more than an eae or two ong. 
on 
GAL 
of Tarbes; 19 miles E. of Tarbes. The place contains 
1294, and the canton _ inhabitants, on a territory of 
1024 kiliometres, in 10 c 
LAN i, a neal root, brought 
sia the Eaft Indies ; ; a produce of a plant of the fame 
is characters are thefe. It hath a fingle fpatha of one 
eaf; the flower has one petal with a flender tube, divided 
Ww m 
pele a pel the ie “of the tobe which aerate c 
ome a ndifh three-cornered c ith three cells 
filled with feeds. We have but one ae a this plant in 
England, known by botanical writers under the title of 
Kemper, which fee. 
There are two kinds of a wa the ee all and the great. 
The fmaller i is by far the moft in eftee 
one heard of in prefcription. he ae minor, or leffer 
galangal, is a {mall fhort root, of an irregular figure, of 
the thicknefs of a man’s little finger, and is feidom met with 
t has nar 
protuberances at its ends, a its {urface, and is 
rounded with man circular me that ftand out a little 
berone the reft of the furface. s of an extremely firm, 
and compact texture, yet not hee 3 it cuts difficultly with 
a knife, and leaves a polifhed furface. Its colour is a 
neem red on the outfide, and a fomewhat igs red 
— though ftill with a confiderable admixture of 
bro 
The {mail pen eon are to be chofen full and asi and 
ight colou firm and found, and of an acrid 
ae (aa paneable tec 
hey were a in common ufe as warm ftomachic 
bitters, and generally made an ingredient im bitter infuton 
but they are now almoft wholly laid afide, on accou of 
their unpleafant flavour. Bitternefs does not appear . be 
the proper medical character of this root ; ue heat and pun- 
hae greatly prevailing. A very fiery extract is made 
mit with rectified ae 5a 
ee hot and pungent ; in diftillat 
effential oil, about a EP am in quantity fi fro 
fixed ma Lewis, Mat. Med. 
The on galangal grows chiefly in Java and Malabar, 
and anfwers pretty much to the above an ee only 
that i ae is larger in bulk, lefs unequal and t 
and more difagreeable than the lefer oa 
are both brought us from the Eaft i 
of the fame plant, which is of the number of the ferbe bul- 
bofis afines of Mr. Ray. Herman calls that which produces 
the larger, pean Priel and that which produces the 
leffer, ‘Tagoudi Ind 
= people of an Eaft Indies ufe thefe roots by way ee 
pic 
GALANT. See pee ea 
GALANTHUS, a wn from yarn, milk, and avSocy 
a flower, alluding to its. milky whitenefs, Snow-drop. 
Linn, Gen, 160. Schreb, 215. Willd. S V. 2. 29s 
Sm. Fl. Brit. 352. Mart. Mill. Did. v. oa 
luftr. t. 230. Juff. 55. Clafs and order, Hexandria Mona» 
7 at. Ord. Stathacee, Linn. Nare “iff Juff. 
n.Ch, Cal. Spatha oblong, obtufe, compreffed, opens 
ing as the flat fide, permanent, moiftly cloven at the t 
top, 
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