down tn a jelly, frequently, and in small 
quantities. In this form tiie food was re- 
tained, and the body being duly supplied 
with nourishment, the stomach and rest of 
tlie system recovered their proper tone and 
energy. But the most extraordinary in- 
stance of bulimy which perhaps ever occur- 
red, is that recorded in the third volume of 
lire “'Medical and PhysicalJoumal,” com- 
nuinicated by Dr. Johnson, commissioner 
of sick and wounded seamen, to Dr. 
Blane, formerly physician to the navy. 
The subject was a Polish soldier, named 
Charles Domery, in the service of the 
French, on board of the Hoche frigate, 
which was captured by the squadron under 
the conmiand of Sir John Boriase War- 
ren, off Ireland, in 1799. He was 21 years 
of age, and stated that his father and bro- 
theis had been remarkable for their vora- 
cious appetites. He began when he was 13 
years of age. He would devour raw and 
even live cats, rats, and dogs, besides bul- 
lock’s liver, tallow-candles, and the entrails 
of animals. One day {viz. September 7tb, 
1799), an experiment was made of how 
much this man could eat in one day. This 
experiment was made in the presence of 
the before-mentioned Dr. Johnson, Admiral 
Child, and Mr. Foster, agent for prisoners 
at Liverpool, and several other gentlemen. 
He had breakfasted at 4 o’clock in the 
morning on 4lhs. of raw cow’s udder; at 
half past nine o’clock there were set before 
him 516s. of raw beef and 12 tallow candles 
of 116. weight, together with 1 bottle of 
porter; these he finished by half past ten 
o’clock; at one o’clock there were put be- 
fore him 616s. more of beef, 116. of candles, 
and 3 bottles of porter : he was then locked 
up in the room and sentries were placed at 
the windows to prevent his throwing away 
any of his provisions. At two o’clock he 
had nearly finished the whole of the can- 
dles and great part of the beef; but without 
having had any evacuations by vomiting, 
stool, or urine. His skin was cool, pulse 
regular, and spirits good. At a quarter past 
six he had devoured the whole, and declar- 
ed he could have eat more; but the pri- 
soners on the outside having told him that 
experiments were making upon him he be- 
gan to be alarmed, 
BULK heads are partitions made athwart 
the ship with boards, by which one part is 
divided from the ofner ; as the great cab- 
bin, gun-room, bread-room, and several 
other divisions. The bulk head afore is the 
partition between the forecastle and grat- 
ings in the head, 
IjVLK, breaking-. See BREAKiko. 
BULL. See Bos. 
Kvi.i. finch. See Loxia. 
Bull, among ecclesiastics, a written let- 
ter dispatched by order of the Pope, from 
the Koman chancery, and sealed with lead, 
being written on parciiment, by which it 
is partly distinguished from a brief. See 
Brief. 
Bull, golden, w edict or imperial consti- 
tution, made by the Emperor Charles IV. 
reputed to be the magna charta, or the fun- 
damental law of the German empire. 
It is called golden because it has a golden 
sea! in tlie form of a pope’s bull, tied with 
yellow and red cords of silk': upon one side 
is the Emperor represented sitting on his 
throne, and on the other the capital of 
Koine. It is also called Caroline on Charles 
IV’s account. ’Fill the publication of the 
golden bull, the form and ceremony of the 
election of an emperor were dubious and 
undetermined, and the number of the elec- 
tors not fixed. 
This solemn edict regulated the func- 
tions, rights, privileges, and pre-eminences 
of the electors. The original, which is in 
Latin, on velllim, is preserved at Frankfort ; 
this ordinance, containing thirty articles or 
chapters, was approved of by all tlie 
princes of the empire, and remains still in 
force. 
BULLA, in natural history, a genus of 
insects of the Vermes Testacea. Animal a 
limax ; shell univalve, convolute, unarmed, 
with teeth ; aperture a little straightened, 
oblong, longitudinal, very entire at the 
base; pillar oblique, smooth. There are 
nearly sixty species. B. lignaria is found 
on European coasts, and is about three 
inches long. The shell is thin, of a dirty 
colour, but within it is white. The inhabi- 
tants of this species, and, according to Grae- 
lin, those of most of the genus, are furnished 
with an organ resembling the gizzard of a 
fowl, and which they appear to use for the 
purpose of masticating their food. 
BULLET, an iron or leaden ball, or 
shot, wherewith fire-arms are loaded. Bul- 
lets are of various kinds ; viz. red-hot bul- 
lets, made hot in a forge, intended to set 
fire to places where combustible matters 
are found. Hollow bullets, or shells made 
cylindrical, with an aperture and fusee at 
one end, which giving fire to the inside 
when in the ground, it bursts, and has the 
same effect with a mine. Chain-bullets, 
which consist of two balls, joined by a 
chain, three or four feet apart. Branch- 
bullets, two balls joined by a bar of iron 
