B R O 
ed to the memory of this worthy man, that although he 
was fcrupuloufly attentive to every call of profeflion, and 
felt the curve of manual practice in common with the mod 
attentive and induftriousof his clafs, his medical advice, as 
well as his purfe, was ever open to the poor, and alio to 
men of merit or thofe in profeflional lines who were nar¬ 
rowed in their circumftances ; and this he did not only 
when his fortune was at the Hood, but proportionably in 
the outlet of his profeflion, when his means were fmall, 
and his practice little. 
Palling through a life thus honourably occupied in the 
liberal purfuits of his profeflion, and in the confidence and 
friend (hip of forae of the firft charadlers of the age for 
rank or literary attainments, the doftor reached his feven- 
ty-third year; and finding thofe infirmities, generally at¬ 
tached to that time of life, increafe upon him, he gave up 
a good deal of the bulile of bufinefs, as well as lvis hall- 
pay, on being appointed, by his old friend and patron the 
duke of Richmond, phyfician-general to the royal regi¬ 
ment of artillery and corps of engineers. This was a liru- 
ation exaftly ftiited to his time of life and inclinations; 
hence he employed his time in occafionai trips to Wool¬ 
wich, with vilits to his friends and patients. He died on 
the nth of December, 1797 ; and on the 18th was buried 
in the church-yard of St. Clement’s Danes (according to 
his own particular requeft), in the inoft private manner 
poflible. His fortune, which amounted to near 30,0001. 
(after a few legacies to friends and diftan# relations,) he 
nearly divided between his two nephews, Robert Beeby, 
Efq. and Dr. Thomas Young. 
As a phyfician Dr. Brocklefby muftbe placed in the* 
firft forum , if he is to be judged by the regularity of his 
education, his long and extenlive practice, the many noble 
families who patroniled him, and his high medical aflocia- 
tion. To the knowledge of a phyfician he added that 
mildnefs of behaviour and benevolence of heart which 
conciliate efteenr in no one line more than that of the me¬ 
dical profeflion. His general literature was refpefltable, 
and histafte for it (till more fo, as he not only drew about 
his table foine of the firft characters for learning or genius, 
but always fupported thecaufeof art and literature, either 
bv his aid to public works, or by his private benevolence 
to men of genius ftruggling with diftrefs. As a man and 
a good citizen, no one could fill thofe duties with more 
credit; and in his friendlhips he polIeUed that active fpirit 
which confidered neither time norafliduity any obftacles to 
its’purfuit. He feemed to have a pleafure in being thus 
employed, and it may be truly laid of him, in a moral as 
well as a medical line, “ that he daily went about doing 
good.” As a companion, he was polite, cheerful, and 
entertaining; he often quoted from the belt authors, ancient 
and modern, vyith great propriety, and had a fund of 
agreeable anecdote, which he told with fimplicity and 
without intiufion. In fliort, take Dr. Brocklefby “ for 
all in all,” he was a moll honourable and riferul member of 
•fociety; whether we eftimate him by the good deeds he 
has done, or the good example he has left behind him. 
The following is a correct 1 ift of the doClor’s publica¬ 
tions • 1. Diflertatio. Inaug. de Saliva Sana et Morbofa, 
Lug. Bat. 4to. 1745. 2. An Eflay concerning the Morta¬ 
lity of the Horned Catjle, 8vo. 1746. 3. Eulognum Me- 
dicum,five Oratio Anniverfari Harveiana habita in Th'ea- 
tris Collegii, Regalis Medicorum Londinenfmm, Die xviii. 
Otftobris, 4to. 1760. 4. Economical and Medical Obler- 
vations from 1738 to' 17C3, tending to the Improvement 
of Medical Holpitals, 8vo. 1764.- 5. An Account of the 
Poifonous Root lately found mixed with Genrian, Phil. 
Tranf. No. 486. 6. Cafe of a Lady labouring under,a Dia¬ 
betes, Med. Obferv. No. 3. 7. Experiments relative to 
the Analylis and Virtues of Seltzer Water, ibid, vol.iv. 
8. Cafe of an Encyfted Tumour in the Orbit of the Eye, 
cured by Meflrs. Bromfield and Ingram, ib. 9. Difi'erta- 
tion on the Mulic of the Ancients. \Ve,do not know the 
date of this lafl article, but believe it to.be a.incngft his 
early literary amufements. 
Vol. III. No. 139. 
BROD, a fortified town of Sclavonia, on the Save, where 
the emperor gained a victory over the Turks, in the year 
1688 : fifty miles north of Serajp, and one hundred and ten 
weft of Belgrade. 
BROD (Bomifch), a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Kaurzim. It was reduced to alhes in 1637, and, though 
fince re-built, has not recovered its former confequence ; 
feven miles north-weft of Kaurzim. 
BROD (Teutfch), a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Czazlau, on the Sazava, taken by the 'allies in the year 
1741 : twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Czazlau, and fifty - 
four fouth-eafl of Prague. 
BROD (Ungarifli), a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Hradifch : eight miles fouth-eafl of Hradifch. 
ERODE AU' (John), in Latin Brodccus, a great critic, on 
whom Leipfius, Scaliger, Grotius, and all the learned, have 
be/towed great encomiums, was defeended from a noble. 
family in France, and born at Tours in 1500. He was li¬ 
berally educated, and placed under Alciat to fludy the ci¬ 
vil law; but, foon forfaking that, lie gave himfelf up 
wholly to languages and the belles lettres. He travelled 
into Italy, where he became acquainted with Sadolet, 
Bembus, and other famous wits; and here he appl ied him¬ 
felf to the fludy of mathematics, philolophy, and facred 
literature, in which he made no fmall proficiency. Then, 
returning to his own country, he led a retired, but notan 
idle, life, as his many learned lucubrations abundantly 
prove. He was a man free from ambition and vain glory, 
and fuflered his works to be publiflied rather under the 
fanfition and authority of others than under his own. His 
chief works are, 1. A Commentary on the Anthologia, 
2. Ten books of Mifcellanies, 3. Notes on Oppian, Euri¬ 
pides, &c. He died in 1563, aged fixty-three. 
BRO'DENFIELD, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and territory of Vogtland : three miles 
eaft of Oelfnitz. 
BRODERA', or Broderah, a town of Hindooflan, in 
the country of Guzeraf, celebrated for its beautiful linens, 
indigo, and lac: fifty-five mile-s fouth-fouth-eafl of Arne- 
dabad, and twenty-two fonth-weft of Champaneer. Near 
this town general Goddard defeated the Mahratta army of 
40,000 men in April, 1780. 
BRODETZ', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bo- 
leflaw, five miles fouth of Jung Buntzlaw. 
BRODNIT'ZA, a town of Pruflia, in the bifhopric of 
Culm, thirty miles eaft of Culm. 
BRO'DOW, a town of Germany, in the circle of Low¬ 
er Saxony, and duchy of Holfiein: four miles and a half 
north-ea-fl of Newftatt. 
BRO'DRA, a town of Hindooflan, in the country of 
Agimere, thirty miles north-eaft of Kottah. 
BRO'DY, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lem¬ 
berg, thirty miles fouth ot l.ucko. 
BRODZEIC', a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Minlk, forty-eight miles eaft of Minfk. 
BROECK, a town of North Hoiland, remarkable for 
the elegant neatnefs of the houfes and ftreets, whofe'inha- 
bitants carry on great trade in cattle and corn. It is one 
league weft of Monikedam. 
BRQGTIILL. See Boyle. 
BROGLPE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt qf 
B.ernay : two leagues fouth of Bcrnay, and three fouth- 
weft of Beaumont-le-Roger. 
BRQG'LJO, or Broil, a town of Piedmont, in the 
country of Nice, fifteen miles north-eaft of Nice. 
BROGNE, a town and abbey of the county of Namur, 
ten miles weft-fouth-weft of Namur. 
BROGUE, f. [btvg, irifli.] A kind of Ihoe : 
1 thought he flept; and put 
My clouted brogues from oft" my feet. S/iaAefpeare. 
A cant word for a corrupt dialeft, or manner of pronun¬ 
ciation.—-His brogue will deteft mine. Farquhar. 
To BR^l’DkR, v. a. Ibrodir, Fr.} To adorn with fi- 
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