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are his biographers agreed as to the 
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rom his writings that he lived at Rome under the empe- 
rors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Severus ; and Fabri- 
feventy 3 which, if we 
fubject, porte 
ardent inveltigation s the fruits of his refearches, we are 
told, that he compote is hundred different eflays on the 
» and half as many on other fcien- 
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ea, written en, it may be fuflicient here to notice 
‘the different editions of the whole of his works ae have 
been tranfmitted to us. The ‘Greek editions are as of 
Aldus and Aud. Afulanus, _ at Veni 
five volumes folio, and of eron. Ge Pe at BSL, 
1538, in the fame form. 
Paris, 1536, folio, nei by Sim S 
1554, with additions and corr 
542, folio, Snes 
thofe of Bail 
aein in in 1549, I of which contains a 
preface by Conra he comments with 
great ju udgment on the merits of Galen, and his works, and 
of his different tranflators :—the edition of Venice, 1562, 
with the corrections of John Baptitt Rafario:—ten editions 
publifhed at Venice by the Juntas, in different pl between 
1541 and 1625 3 the ninth of which, printed in 1609, and 
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count ofthe part on treatifes of. Galen, fee the author a 
ral aoted, and Haller. Biblioth, Med. Pra&. Galen h 
tivice mei it one our Saviour in his treatife «De differentia 
sulfuum;’? andi in his celebrated work ‘* De ufu Partium 
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Corporis humani,”’ he has mentioned Mofes. Lardner’s 
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This great phyfician has recorded a ftor ry “of the power 
of mufc over the paffions, uae! to what has been cs 
of Pythagoras by Boe thi He fays that Damon, the 
raufic-mafter of Sec crates, re a young Ss inflamed 
with wine, : © violent a rage, that We was on ‘the point 
his rival to a ; and, moreover, animated by the found of 
a flute playing to. him in the Phrygian’ mode, had this young 
man refored to reafon and tranquillity, by ordering the 
¢to the houfe ‘of his miftrefs, for preferring - 
cone to 
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e “the es era 3 appears from this 
i 2 Medicina d’Afclepiade per 
ben curare le Ma latie sone raccolta da varii frammenti- 
Greci e Latini,’’ in Venezia,) that it was ufed as a remedy 
by the ancient Egypt ians, Hebrews, Greeks, and: Romans, 
not only in acute, but chronical diforders.. An a 
writer gives fevered cafes within his own knowledge, 1 
which mulic has been efficacious; but the confiderations as as 
well as the honour, of thefe, more proper dng t 
modern mufic than to the ancient. See Mepicina Musica, 
where this fubject will be refumed. . 
ALEN, in Geography, a military py of anche. 
in pie te county, New York, fituated on Canandarquaa 
creek ; miles N.W. of the N. end of the Cayuga lake, 
and ce S. by - of Great Sodus. -On the fouth it is 
bounded by Jun 
ALEN: i es. lead mineralized by fulphur. 
See LEAp, Sera ted.) ‘Che meaning formerly conveyed 
by this term vague ; for, befides Os of lead, alfo 
common or black lente: was mean t by was alfo he 
by Wallerius and others as a prefix to the names of vai 
metals to denote their fulphurets : : thus we have Gal 
timonii or {tibii, which is our grey-antimony-ore ; G 
cobalti, or white and grey-cobalt-cre ; Galena zincina, Ga- 
lena bifmut hi, &c. 
ALENA ii nanis, a name given itera toaghittering fub- 
ftance, very much refembling fome of the plated ores of lead, 
ut really containing none 3 that 1 ee ; 
GALE > in Botany, fo cone by “Linnzus 
in memory of the cde ancient - phyfician Galen. Linn. 
Gen. Willd. i Pl. v. 2. 436. art. 
Mill. Dict. v. 2. Juff. 84. Clafs and order, O&andria 
Nat. Ord. ies Linn. § Atriplices, Julf. : 
. Ch. Cal. Perianth minute, io “Cc 
concave; its fegments oblong. Cor. none. Shan: 
ments ake ee hardly fo long as ae calyx ; anthers 
of two lobes. Pi/?, Germen fuperior, roundifh ; ftyles two, 
fimple, reflexed ; itigmas fimple.  Peric. Capfule roundith, 
cme 
of two cells. Seeds two, oblong, pila 
aff. Ch. alyx four-cleft. ne none. Capfule 
roundifh, of two cells, ore rte fee 
africana, Linn. och Ss Sa ppl. 227. (Atri- 
plex africana lignofa iit rorifmarini foliis ; "Ci. Hort. 
tt. “U t, fhrubby. Lea’ ar, flefhy.’’ 
Native ot Africa. A humble plant of no attraétive afpect, 
of {mall incon{picuous greenith-whit e flowers, which are 
feffile i in the forks of the p 
‘G: procumbens. ae Saul o27.. Procumbent. 
Leaves ovate, channelled, with {preading recurved points 
Gathered by Thimnberg at the Cape of f Good Hope. 
GALEN L System. The profeffors of medicine at 
Rome were divided into a number of feGs 
Galen appeared ; and of thefe the methodifts aD; 
“been i in peg ighett e imation, and the empirics 3 m a Jowett, 
e dogmatics were again divided in regard to the ay- 
which th y appealed, fome preferrin ng the tenets.. 
of Hippocrates, others thofe of Erafiftratus, of Afclep 
&c. (See Empiric). But Galen treai ed with desion 
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