BOR 
Pevenfcy, where he was born, afterwards at Whichever, 
and finally in London, where he is laid to have become a fel¬ 
low of the college of phyficians, and fifft phyfician to Henry 
VIII, But, notwithllanding his eminence in his profellion, 
he had the misfortune to lpend the latter part of his life in 
the Fleet prilon, where he died in 1549- Wood lays, that 
“ he was efteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious per- 
fon, and an excellent phyfician.” His works are very va¬ 
rious in their lubje&s; one of the molt confiderable is enti¬ 
tled A Book of the Introduction of Knowledge ; black let¬ 
ter, imprinted by William Coplande, without date. He 
there profefies to teach all languages, the cuftoms and fafliions 
of ail countries, and the value of every fpecies of coin. This 
is written partly in verle, and partly in prole ; and is divided 
into thirty-nine chapters, before each of which is a wooden 
out, reprefenting a man in the habit of fome particular coun¬ 
try. His well-known t'atire on the Englilhman, who, to ex- 
prefs the inconftancv and mutability of his fafliions, is drawn 
naked with a cloth and a pair of flieers in his hand, is bor¬ 
rowed from the Venetians, who charafterifed the French in 
this manner. Before the feventh chapter is the effigies of the 
author, under a canopy, with a gown, a laurel on his head, 
and a book before him. The title of this chapter ffiews how 
the author travelled through Chriftendom. An edition of 
this fingular work was printed in London in 1542. His 
Breviary of Health was publifhed in 1547, and is luppofed 
by Fuller to be the firfl medical piece written in Englifh. 
This work, with a I'ccond part called the Extravagants, was 
reprinted in 410. 1575. He was alfo author of the follow¬ 
ing : Compendyoufe Regimente, or Dietary of Healthe, made 
in Mounte Pyllor, an edition of which was printed feveral 
years after his death, in 1562. A famous jell-book,, called 
the Merrye Tales of the Madmen of Gotham; The Hif- 
torye of the Miller of Abingdon and the Cambridge 
Scholars, the fame with that related by Chaucer in his 
Canterbury Tales; a book of Prognoltics, and another of 
Urines, &e. 
BORDEAU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Drome; ten miles fouth-weft of Die. 
BOR'DEKOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lemberg; thirty-fix miles fouthof Lemberg. 
BOR'DEL, or Bordello, [, bordeel , Teut. bordel, 
Armoric.] A brothel; abawdy-doufe, See Bawd y-house, 
vol. ii. p. 81S.—'Making even his own houfe a (lew, a bordel, 
and a fchool of lewd nets, to inftil vice into the unwary ears of 
his poor children. South. 
BORDENA'VE (Touiflaint), profeffor and direftor of the 
academy of fiurgery at Paris; was born there in April 1728, 
and died March 12, 1782. His Elements of Phyfiology, 
121110, are in good repute. 
BOR'DENTOWN, a town of United America, in the 
Hate of New Jerfey, fituated on the louth-weft fide of the 
Delaware. It was taken by the Britilli troops in May, 1778, 
a battery deftroyed, and feveral vefiels burnt: eight miles 
N. E. of Burlington, and 23 N. E. of Philadelphia. 
BOR DER, f. \bord, Ger. bord, Fr.] The outer part or 
edge of any thing.—-The light mull ftrike on the middle, 
and extend its great clearnels on the principal figures; di- 
miniffiing by degrees as it comes nearer and nearer to the 
borders. Dryden. —The march or edge of a country; the 
confine.—If a prince keep his refidence on the border of his 
dominions, the remote parts will rebel; but, if he make the 
centre his (eat, he (hall eafily keep them in obedience. 
Spenfer. —The outer part of a garment, generally adorned 
with needlework, or ornaments. A bank railed round a 
garden, and fet with flowers; a narrow rank of herbs or 
flowers : 
There he arriving, round about doth fly 
From bed to bed, from one to other border ; 
And takes lurvey, with curious buly eye, 
Of every flower and herb there fet in order. Spenfer. 
To BORDER, <v. n. To confine upon; to touch l‘«me- 
thing eife at the fide or edge: with upon-—*- Virtue and ho-. 
Hour had their temples bordering on each other, and are 
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BOR 2 t 3 
fometimes both on the fame coin. Addifon. —To approach 
nearly to.—All wit, which borders upon profanenefs, and 
makes bold with thole things to which the greatell reverence 
is due, delerves to be branded with folly. Tillotfon. 
To BOR'DER, 11. a. To adorn with a border of orna¬ 
ments. To reach; to touch; to confine upon; to be con¬ 
tiguous to.-—Sheba and Raamah are thole parts of Arabia, 
which border the lea called the Perfian gulf. Raleigh. —To 
confine within bounds: '_ t,c 
That nature which contemns its origin 
Cannot be border d certain in itlelf. Shakefpears. 
BOR'DERER, f. Fie that dwells on the borders, extreme 
parts, or confines; he that dwells next to any place.—The 
king of Scots in perlon entered with a great army, though 
it chiefly confided of borderers, being railed fome what fud- ! 
denly. Bacon. 
BORDE'RES, a town of France, in the department of ' 
the Fligher Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton inthe dif- 
tridl of Barthe-de-Nefte, four leagues fouth of la Bartho. 
BOR'DES (Charles), of the academy of Lyons, the place 
of his nativity, was a poet and phiiofopher, and acquitted him-', 
lelf well both in prole and verle. In two difcourfes. much 
applauded, he refuted that which J. J. RouiTeauhad publith- 
ed againft the fciences. He wrote likewile ffiort eptftles in 
verle, in lo agreeable a manner, that fome of them were at¬ 
tributed to Voltaire. But his light bagatelles are inferior to 
a fine Ode on- War, printed in alrnoft all the recueiis of 
poetry, and which warriors as well as poets ought to have by 
heart. He died in 1781. A collection of his works ap¬ 
peared in 4 vols. 8vo. Lyons, 1783. Among them we find 
a tragedy of diftinguifhed merit, intituled, Blanche de Bour¬ 
bon (the fiory is the fame with that of Peter the Cruel, by 
du Belloi) ; feveral comedies abounding in ingenuity and 
wit; poems full of genius and reafon ; academical pieces well 
written, See. 
BOR'DES, a town of France, in the department of (he' 
Arriege ; feven leagues and a half weft of Mirepoix. 
BORDEU' (Theophilus de), born February 22, 1722, 
at Ifelle in the valley of Oflan in Berne, was fon of Antoine 
de Bordeu, phyfician to the king at Bareges, a man diitin- 
guifhed in his profellion. The fon was worthy of the father. 
At tlte age of twenty, for his degree of Bachelor in the univer- 
fity of Montpellier, lie held a thefts De fenfu gcnerice con- 
fiderato , which contains the ground-work of all the‘publica¬ 
tions he afterwards gave. Such early knowledge determin¬ 
ed his profelfors to difpenle with feveral adts ufual before 
admilfion to pradlice. After palling fome time'at Pau, the 
young phyfician went to Paris, where he loon acquired s. 
great reputation. Having taken out his licence, he was ap¬ 
pointed phyfician to the hopital de la charite. He died of 
an apoplexy, November 24, 1776. A deep melancholy oc- 
cafioned by the flying gout, was the forerunner of his end; 
He was-found dead in his bed. One of the faculty, jealous- 
of his fame, and who had tried to ruin him, laid on the oe- 
cafion : “I fhould never have thought he would have died 
in an horizontal pofilion.” But a witty lady returned the far* 
cairn, by faying, in a 1 'eleCt company, “ that death was fo 
much afraid of him, that he was obliged to catch him nap¬ 
ping.” The facility with which he exercifed his profellion, 
his reluftance to prescribe medicines, and his great confidence 
in nature, drew upon him the reproach of the faculty. His 
works are, 1. Letters on the Mineral Waters of Berne, 
1746, and 1748, i2mo. 2. Anatomical Refearches into the 
Pofition of the Glands, 1751, 1 into. 3. DilTertations on the 
Waters of Bareges in regard to the Scrophula, 1767, 121710. 
4. DifTertation on Crifes, 2755, 12010, 5. Inquiries into 
the Pull'e, in regard to Crifes, 1772, 4 vols. 12010, this 
work, which contains uncommon lagacity, has been tranflat- 
ed into Engliffi. 6. Examination of fome Particulars in the 
Hiftory of Medicine, 1764, 2, vols. 12010, 7. Inquiries in¬ 
to the Mucous Tiflu, or Cellular Organ, and into tome Dif» 
orders of the Cheft, 1766, 12010, 8. Trealiieon Chronical 
Complaints, vol, i, 8vo, 1776, 9. Chililicationis Hilioria, 
1751, 121110, 
3 I BORDIGHE’RA, 
