GAL 
Galba was the laft emperor who claimed defcent from the 
“a families of Rome. 
BZ Castrum, or oe of Galba, in Ancient 
G vat, a town of Africa, in Num 
GA NETUM, a oupeidens or aC laa of 
ao formerly prefcribed, but now much out of 
CALB ANUM, in Pharmacy, a eel fuppofed by Lin- 
iffue from an incifion in th of a ferulaceous 
oat cle, in Latin, ferula galban if. ies orks in Arabia, 
yria, rica, &c. 1e word is derived, according to 
Martinius, fro the Hebrew chelbenah, fat. It is 
bight) probable, that galbanum is — — from differ- 
mt f{pecies of the Bubon, 7 b 
seen from the joints of the 
and in greater abundance, by tiie an incifion in the ftalk 
a few inches above the root, from which it immediately 
iffues, and foon becomes fufficiently concrete to be gathered. 
For an account of it 
num. 'The compound pills of galbanum are prepared in es 
es manner: ‘Take of galbanum gum-refin an our 
myrrh and na eae of each 14 ounce, aflatcetida an. 
refin half an ounce, and as much fyrup as is fufficient. 
Beat them together till nal form an uniform mals. The 
by wate The effential oil of galbanum, 
diftilled with water, rifes to the furface, of a yellowifh co- 
lour, = in quantity about the 2oth part of its weight. The 
matic oil is of a blue colour, and changes in the air 
ito Cale. 
The galbanum colour was a prevailing fafhion with the 
Romans. 
«¢ Reticulumque comis auratum ingentibus implet, 
: Car rulea indutus fcutulata, aut galbana rafa.”’ 
Jus enal, Sat. ii. 1. 96. 
And aay {peaking of an effeminate pat fays, 
“G os habet mores. Lib. i. Epig. 97. 
Commentators differ about the colour of ¢ eae na rafa 3?’ 
but the een ciate is defcribed to be of a greenifh 
yellow. See 
G LA, 2 Ornithole ogy, the name of a bird of the 
‘thrufh kind, common in Italy and Germany, very remark- 
able for the elegant ftru€jure and hang ing of its neft ; and 
thence called by fome picus nidum fufpendens, and by others 
oriolus, chlor us, and ifferus, being fuppofed to be the any 
or jaundice-bird of Pliny, and the old writers. This bir dy 
the loriot of Buffon, the witwall of Willughby, the golden 
thrufh of Edwards, and golden oriole of Latham, &e. &e. 
is fomewhat larger than the common thrufh: its beek isa 
—- breadth long, and red; its wing-feathers are black, 
but fome are tipped, and others edged with white ; nu 
are varied with yellow, and the reft are an extreme ly ght 
—T 
and beautiful yellow. The female is lefs beaut, ve 
yellow: being more fhaded with ee and bro ae 
galbula feeds on.infeéts, and is in moft a oneee 
and is "eS uch 
efteemed-at the table, but is no ie S be had at all feat ons, 
being a bird of paflage. See Ortorus Galbula. 
ALBULA is alfo a fpecies of the Alcedo ; which fee. 
LDER 
in: any a town oF the iland of 
Canary. 
GALDETOOR, a town of Hindooftan, in the eircar of 
Cicacole; 36 milesW. S. W. of Viligapatam. 
ts properties and ufes, fee Busown galba- 
GALDHEIM, a town of Germany, i in us eee 
nfur 
of Wurzburg ; feven miles E. of Schwein 
GA tas, in Bisgraphy, w n 
and educa inder Richard Ferris, afterwards ferjeant-fur- 
geon to queen Eliz iis as furg on in the army of 
king Henry J. at h fontruil, in 15443 and alfo in 
king Philip at St. die in 1557. 
ie afterwards fettle 
in pong oi became &i 
very eminent in the pra fur-. 
r as living in 1586. Duithop ee Boy the 
following if of his writings: “The Inititutio a Chi- 
rurgeon. “« An Enchiridion of Surgery,” Pan “four tak. 
« On Gun-fhot wounds.”’ « Antidotarie,’’ in two books. 
All thefe were printed together, London, 
a one ae Method of curing preternatural ‘Tu- 
«© On Several Kinds of Ulcers, and their 
de Caulinco.”” “An 
6 brief Declaration 
Coy on Guido 
Herbal, for ie Ule of Sur; CEOS.” 
fion of illiterate eee au ve en pirics into 
of medicine and oe ry are = terfperfed 
— 3: fomee ich are Vv 1 not ices as con tai 
a. "Ai ikin, Biog. eon of } i “a. 
ALE, THEOPINLUS, was born at Kings ‘ein in 
Devonthire in the year 1628. The carly parts of his. ec an 
cation he received “under the roof of lis father’s houfe, who 
was vicar of the parifh ; he was afterwards fent, for i improve-- 
ment, to a grammar fchool i inthe neighbourhood, and in the 
year 1647 he was entered : Magdalen hee lege, Oxford. 
In 1649 he was admitted the degree of B. A. be- 
fore he had attained the uf all one at silly according 
to the ftatutes of the univerfity, that degree is conferred ; 
and in the following year he was the fuccefsful candidate for 
a fellowfhip in his | college. Ini 
: ecame an eminent +0 or 
acher. i 
nd was wfiduous in co le ; ing eer hae his & rene: work, 
ublifhed many ye terwards under the title of «Lh 
ourt of the rape The plan of this publication was 
t 
= in early life, 
e to appear ‘hat Fccthe wifeft and moft elleemed of t 
ae philofophers borrowed the moft rational of their 
ments, and were indebted for their moft feblime contempla- 
tions, from the Scriptures; fo that how ditcrent foever they 
miglt be. in their pues ce, not only their theology, but 
ce philofophy and philology were derived from the facred 
oracles.’? ‘T'o the accomplifixment of this plan he devoted a 
conliderable portion of many of the beft years of his life, 
though he was never negligent of thofe duties incumbent 
upen him in the other characters which he fuitained. In 
1657 7 he fettled as a ftated preacher at Winchefter, where he 
acouned univerfal efteem by his = aie and eh 
his exemplary life and riage ‘ae pafiing of the 
& of Uniformity, Mr. e found himfelt compe ed to. 
refign his living, and he was a 
fellowfhi nder thefe circumftance 
tuition “of the fens of lord Wharton yw 
aen in Normandy, where there wasa celebrated feminary 
of learning, under thé direction of the moft diftinguithed 
pr ofeffors of the reformed religion in France. Ih 5 che 
returned with his’ pupils to England, ae refided ,with fie, 
1D September in.the following year, at their father’s feat in 
‘Bucking hamfhite. 
don ; 
On the frit of nek month he fet out for _ 
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