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tion to the Tick and afflicted. But lie ferved the inferefts 
of religion not only by the zeal of -his paftoral labours, 
but the productions of an able and fertile pen. His-works 
were partly practical and devotional, arid.partly contro- 
verfial. Of the former defcription, his Treatife on the 
Preparation for the Lord’s Supper, and his Confolations 
againft the Fears of Death, met with peculiar acceptance ; 
and, befides undergoing numerous impreflions' in the 
French, have been repeatedly publiflied in the German, 
I'lemifii, Italian, and Englifh, languages. His Charitable 
Vifjts, alfo, in five volumes, and three volumes of Ser¬ 
mons, which he publiflied, have contributed, from the 
vein of piety and fervent devotion which pervades them, 
to the edification and improvement of all clafles of read¬ 
ers. Among his controverfial pieces, his Catechifin, and 
his Abridgment of Controverfies, have been inoft fre¬ 
quently printed, and are likely to be longed remembered. 
The reft of his polemical works were more particularly 
applicable to the conlroverfies of his day. Though he 
wrote with freedom and fpirit in defence of the proteftant 
cattfe, he never provoked the refentment of his opponents 
by injurious afperfions, unfair practices, or illiberal lan¬ 
guage ; which greatly contributed, with the uniform rec¬ 
titude and decorum of his conduCt, and the inoifenfive- 
nefs of his manners, to fecure the efteem and friendly of¬ 
fices of all men. He died in 1669. 
Of his' fons, the eldeft, Laurence, was brought up to 
the miniftry, and was fettled as paftor at Rochelle, and 
afterwards at Niort, where he died in i63i, in the fiftieth 
year of his age. He publiflied feveral excellent Sermons, 
and alfo a collection of Chriftian Hymns or Sonnets, faid 
to be very much efteemed. 
His third fon, Charles, was bred to the medical pro- 
feflion, and rofe by his merit to diftinguiflied eminence 
and reputation. He took his degree of M.D. at Mont¬ 
pellier, in 1654, foon after which he was appointed firft 
phyfician to the king of France’s armies in Flanders un¬ 
der, the command of marflial Turenne. The character 
which lie acquired by his practice in that fituation, and 
afterwards at Paris, recommended him to the curators o'f 
the univerfity of Leyden, who made him their profeflor 
of phyfic in 1668. In fuch repute was his medical (kill, 
that the prince and princefs of Orange, before their ad¬ 
vancement to the throne of England, placed their chief 
confidence in his advice ; as did likewife all the perfons 
of diftinCtion at the court of the Hague. He died at Ley¬ 
den in 1697, in the fixty-fourth year of his age. His in¬ 
augural diifertation refuted the ufual calumny againft the 
medical profeflion, of being addicted to impiety; and 
(hewed that none were fo likely to be rendered truly re¬ 
ligious, by a contemplation of the works of God. In his 
Apologia Medica, Leid. 1672, he endeavoured to difprove 
the injurious opinion, that phyficians were banfflied from 
Rome during the firft fix hundred years from its founda¬ 
tion. He wrote alfo, 1. De Arthritide, i68i v . 2. Obferva- 
tiones Medico; circa Regimen Piterper arum & rccens natorum, 
1684. 3. De Vario/is & Morbillis. 4. Sermo de Divinis apud 
Hippocratem Dogmaiibus, 1689 ; and feveral orations and dif- 
putations. 
DRE'NA, a town of Germany, in the county of Ty¬ 
rol : (even miles north .eaft of Riva. 
To DRENCH; v. a. [bpencean, Sax. to immerfe.] To 
walli ; to foak ; to fteep.—Our garments, being as they 
were drenched in the fea, hold notwithftanding their freflt- 
nefs and globes. Shakefpeare. ■ 
Now dam the ditches, and the floods reftrain; 
Their moifture has already drench'd the plain. Dryden. 
To faturate with drink or moifture : in an ill'Jcnfe : 
Too oft, alas! has mutual hatred drench’d 
Our fvvords in native blood. Philips. 
To phyfic by violence.—If any of your cattle are infeCt- 
ed, fpeedily let both fick and well blood, and drench 
(hem. Mortimer. 
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DRENCH, ;f. A draught; a (will: by way of abhor¬ 
rence or contempt : 
Let fuch bethink them, if the fleepy drench 
Of that forgetful lake benumb not Hill, 
That in our proper motion we alcend. -'Milton. 
Phyfic fora brute.—A drench is a potion or drink pre¬ 
pared for a fick horfe, and contpofed of feveral drugs in 
a liquid form. Farrier’s Did. 
A drench of wine has with fuccefs been us’d, 
And thro’ a horn the gen’rous juice infus’d. Dryden. 
Phyfic that muft be given by violence.—Their counfels 
are more like a drench that muft be poured down, than a 
draught which muft be leifurely drank if I liked it. King 
Charles. —A channel of water. 
DREN'CKER, f. One that dips or deeps any thing. 
One that gives phyfic by force. 
DRENG'FURTH, a town of Pruflia, in the province 
of Natangen : forty-four miles fouth-eaft of Konigfbcrg. 
DRENT, part. Probably corrupted from drenched: 
What flames, quoth he, when I the prefent fee 
In danger rather to be drent than brent. Spenfer. 
DRENTE, a quarter or diftriCt of Overiflel, in the 
United Dutch States, now the Batavian republic. 
DREN'TELBURG, or Trentelburg, a town of 
Germany, in the circle of the Upper Rhine, and princi¬ 
pality of Helfie : eighteen miles north-north-weft of Caflel, 
and thirty-two eaft-fouth-eaft.of Paderburn. Lat. 51. 23. 
N. Ion. 26. 45. E. Ferro. 
DRE'PANE, the ancient name of Corcyra, from the 
curvity of its figure, refembling a feythe. 
DRE'PANE, or Drepanumi, anciently a town of Bi- 
thynia, fituated between the Sinus Aftacenus and the Bof- 
phorus Thracius ; called Helenopolis by Conftantine, in ho¬ 
nour of his mother Nicephorus Calliftus. 
DRE'PANUM,yi in ancient geography, the promon¬ 
tory Rhium in Achaia; fo called becaufebent in the 
manner of a feythe.—Another Drepanum on the Arabic 
gulf, on the fide of Egypt.—A third on the north fide of 
Crete, fituated between Cydonia and the Sinus Amphi- 
mallus.—A fourth on the weft (ide of Cyprus.—A fifth,- 
a promontory of CyVenaica on the Mediterranean. 
DRE'PANUM, a town and port on the weft fide of Si¬ 
cily, and to the weft of mount Eryx : now Trepano, a port- 
town on the wefternmoft point of Sicily. Here Anchifes 
died, on his voyage to Italy with his fon .®neas; and near 
its coaft the Romans under Cl. Pulcher were defeated, 
B. C. 249, by the Carthagenian general Adherbal. 
DRES'BACH, a town of Germany, .in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and circle of Erzgebirg : two miles north- 
weft of Wolkenftein. 
DRES'DEN, a confiderable city of Germany, and ca¬ 
pital of the deflorate of Saxony, fituated at the conflux 
of the Elbe and the Weferitz. It is the feat of the prin¬ 
cipal tribunals of the country ; and divided into three 
towns, New Drefden, or Drefden ; Old Drefden, or Neu- 
ftadt, and Frederickftadt. New Drefden was built in the 
year 1020, on the right bank of the Elbe, and became a 
town in 1216; here the eleftor of Saxony refides in an 
ancient chateau, the apartments of which are magnifi¬ 
cent, and furniftied with a numerous library, a rich cabi¬ 
net of rare and precious articles, mathematical inftru- 
ments, &c. Befides a number of palaces, this quarter 
contains an opera-houfe, an arfenal, a foundry, three Lu¬ 
theran churches, and one Roman-catholic church, of 
moft beautiful architecture. In the fauxbourgs are the 
prifon, a houfe of orphans, two hofpitals, a military hof- 
pital, a poor-houfe, a foundling hofpital, a plate-glafs 
manufacture, &c. Old Drefden, or, as it is called, Neu- 
ftadt, is united to New Drefden by a (tone-bridge, flip- 
ported by nineteen piers. It owes its origin to a chateau, 
built by Charlemagne, in 808. It was of little confe- 
quence till the year 1403, when it began to acquire im¬ 
portance. Here are extenlive barracks, the menagerie, 
a valuable 
