GAL 
in Enghith tie “a and the bullcard. See Blennius 
HOLIs. 
ga owever cbicure or barbarous its fource, it has 
tong been fanétioned by. general adoption. ae : - 384. 
sala 7 Willd. So. - v. 239. . Mill. Diét. 
25000, S59 t. ae Lamarck “Tiluftr. t. 625. 
Chats and. or “der, ceed Dandi. Nat. Ord.. Papi- 
Gonacez,’ Linn. Leguminofe 
ene Ch. Cal. Per a a one leaf, tubular, fhort, di- 
vided half way down iato five aw’-haped, nearly equal teeth. 
Cor. papilionaceous ; ftandard large, ovate, reflexed at the 
fummit and fides; wings oblong, almoft as long as the 
»itraight, tumid underneath towards the xtremi- 
ty, fharp above. Stam. ge pa i te Gate and 
ea ; anthers oblong. Pi/?. Germen fuperior, flender, 
oblong ; ityle flender, coe pee than the soa 
ftigma a munute termina point, eric. Legume very long, 
ved with oblong ftreaks between 
aped. 
Em, me with aw]-fhaped, nearly equal teeth. 
gume of one cell, linear, with oblique ftreaks between the 
Teeds. ; 
This genus, originally eftablifhed on the Goat’s Rue, Ga- 
Lega o ue : Lina. Sp. Pl. 1062, has fince been much en- 
larged by the addition of many Cape, as well as. tropical 
plants, fo that the fpecies in eee amount to #7. O 
thefe the G. pifeatoria, Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 71, a native 
of the, Eatt Indies and South-fea iflands, is ufed to intoxi- 
cate Sth, by being put into the water, fo as to caufe them 
to be eafily cauy cht by the hand, any 0 
ornamental, ein: gw ufually of a pink purplifh colour. 
The roo!s are common; y perennial ; the fer ns era fhrubby. 
eaves in feven {pecies ternate.: the reft elegantly 
pinnate; mottly with numero us elliptical leaflets. 
There are two {pecies of Galega among the Chinefe. 
The firlt and larzeft is a thick, heavy plant, covered witha 
hard, reddifh bark, whitifh from within, and of a fharp, 
bitter tafte. s bloom is like that cf the pea, oie 
fometimes of a ae and fometimes of a white colour. It 
gives vinegar a very agreeable tafte, and is reckoned a {pe- 
cific’ in diforders of the breatt. The fecond {pecies is a 
hard root, of the fize se a Tittle fi — vithin and 
a ftro and more aro a 
thould be feleéted frefh, juicy, of ahigh colour, compact, odori- 
ferous, ie with a trong aromatic tafte. The Chinefe 
cut it into pieces of the fize of a filbert, in order that it may 
be dried and carried about with more eafe. hey confider it 
asan excellent antidote. Thefe two {pecies of Galega are 
cultivated in the province of Kanxy, and the merchants o 
the city of ‘T'ayvan moftly dealin them. Rochon’s Mada- 
Cay} 
ie Gh LLEGOS, in Geography, sone of Portugal, in the 
puss of Entre Duero e Minho; 4 miles N.E. of Barce- 
“CALELE N, a town "of Prufha, in’ Natangen; 25. 
miles S.E. of Brande enburg. 
, GALELA, atown on ime E. eee of the ifland of Gi- 
lolo. -N. lat. 1° 58". E. long. 127° 
GALEN,Ctaupivs, in Len Ys a a siete phyfician 
. antiquity, was born at Pergamus, a city of Afia Minor, 
the hundred and thirty-firft year of te ehriftian era, 
a 
“as 
GAL 
— about the 14th or 15th of the reign of Adrian. From 
he place of his birth he obtained the furname of PERGAME- 
NUS. e has” ean informed us that his father, whofe 
name was Nic an honourable and wealthy man, and 
pod ee confiderabl muon iecee cf the belles lettres, 
ared to him fondle 
and mae aes the Bhat tf rftem of the Epicure- 
ans, About the age of feventeen, he began his attachment 
to the f{cience of medicine, over which he was defined to 
prefide for many centuries with oracular authority. Durin 
his youth he travelled much, partly with a view of profiting 
y converfation with the mo molest phyficians ‘of the 
age, and partly for the purpofe o learning whatever related 
tothe drugs, which were the a a of different countries. 
He refided feveral years at andria, which was then the 
great refort of men of eee a the belt {fchcol of medi- 
cine in the world. He vifited Cilicia, Paleftine, and 
iflands of Crete and Cyprus; he made two voyages 
Lemnos, in order to afcertain the nature ef the poe 
earth, which was deemed a medicine of extenfive utility ; 
and he went to Cxlo-Syria to examine the opobalfam. At 
the age o twenty-eight he returned from Alexandria to _ 
Pergamus, where his practice was attended with diltinguifhed 
s. Four Nea after this, in the thirty-fecond year of 
fi native Para an - to Rome, where 
ncountered much 
oppofition and jealoufy fon the phyficians of that city, wha 
adhered to the principles of the:-methodic fe& ; he was ftig. 
matized by them as a theorift, and. even as a dealer magic. 
Neverthelefs his merit was recognized by feveral Rowen of 
earning and rank. He became extremely intimate with 
etic of great reputation, whom he cured 
ae ee Severus, pee az alae of Boe- 
r dignity, and others, before whom 
he: oe ce al diffections, and oan mon aftrated esl aeoaeh the 
the 
organs of refpiration and of oice. anting tem- 
per and experience, neceflary to a sie Gal cont with a 
numerous and popular party, he returned to Pergamus, 
after a refidence of four or five years, under - pretence of 
avoiding the plague, which then raged in the ie ak of 
the world. 
princes were feized with fevers, which Galen had the goo od 
fortune to cure; and he alfo gave a correét opinion of the 
iffue of their difeafes, contrary to that of all’ his agate ne 
which raifed him to an eminence, from which h as Fable 
to defy i powen and oy to ruin the credit, Me re former. 
opponent 
It is’ Hot ‘ktiown with certainty how i Galen refided 
f ome; 
