468 LEM 
LEM'BERG, a town of France, in the department of 
Mont Tonnere ; fourteen miles fouth-weft of Deux Ponts, 
and eighteen weft of Landau. 
LEM'BERG. See Lowenberg, vol. xiii. 
LEM'BERG, a town of the duchy of Stiria: five miles 
north of Gilley. 
LEM'BERGHE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Scheldt: fix miles fouth of Ghent. 
LEM'BO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Congo, 
on the Zaire : forty miles fouth-weft of Efl’eno. 
LEMBOU'LA, a river of France, which runs into the 
Tarn near Moirtac. 
LEME'NE, a river of Italy, which rifes in Friuli, and 
runs into the Gulf of Venice near Caorla. 
LEM'ERY (Nicholas), an eminent chemift, fon of Ju¬ 
lian Lemery, a procureur in the parliament of Normandy, 
of the Calvinift perfuafion, was born at Rouen in 1645. 
He W'as brought up to the bufinefs of pharmacy in his na¬ 
tive city 5 and in 1666 went to Paris in order to obtain 
that knowledge of chemiftry which he perceived to be 
the balls of the art of preparing medicines. He took 
fome inftruflions from Glafer, demonftrator of chemiftry 
in the royal garden ; and then travelled for further im¬ 
provement. He fpen-ta confiderable time at Montpellier, 
then famous for its apothecaries and preparations; and 
returned to Paris in 1672, well furniftied with all the 
knowledge in his branch which the kingdom at that time 
would afford. Through the friendlhip of M. Martin, 
apothecary to the prince of Conde, he gave a courfe of 
chemical leftures, at the laboratory in the hotel of that 
prince. He had foon after a laboratory of his own, at 
which, though little better than a dark cellar, he affem- 
bled a brilliant auditory, confuting not only of men of 
fcience, but even of ladies, who were drawn thither partly 
by love of knowledge, and partly by fafhion. He alfo 
took boarders in his houfe, whom he inftrufled in che¬ 
miftry and pharmacy; and the preparations which came 
from his hand had a great fale in Paris and the provinces. 
One article in particular was the fource of great profit ; 
the magiftery of bifmuth, known as a cofmetic by the 
name o i Spanijh white, which no perfon in Paris but him- 
felf knew how to prepare. Lemery performed a real fer- 
vice to fcience, by diverting chemiftry of the veil of ob- 
fcure and myftic language which it had fo long worn, and 
placing its facts within the reach of all perfons of fenfe 
and education. In 1675, he gave to the public from the 
prefs his Cours de Chymie ; and feldom has a work upon a 
fcientific topic been fo popular. It fold (fays Fontenelle) 
like a novel or a fatire; new editions followed year after 
year, and it was tranflated into Latin, and into various 
modern languages. The chief value of this work con¬ 
futed in the clearnefs and accuracy with which the opera¬ 
tions on the different kingdoms of nature were defcribed ; 
the fcience was not yet fufficiently advanced for a ra¬ 
tional theory of thefe precedes. 
The perfecuting fpirit which difgraced the latter part 
of the reign of Louis XIV. began, in 1681, to difquiet 
our chemift; and he received an order to lay down his of¬ 
fice of public lecturer within a limited time. In 1683 
he went to England, and was favourably received by 
Charles II. who had an attachment to chemical purfuits. 
He returned, however, to his own country ; and thought 
to proteift himfelf by the degree ofdoftorof pbylic, which 
he obtained at Caen. At Paris he acquired employment 
in his new character; but the revocation of the edfot of 
Nantes, which interdicted the practice of phyfic to pro- 
teftants, reduced him to fuch difficulties, that his con- 
Itancy at length gave way; and, in 1686, he, with his fa¬ 
mily, was reconciled to the catholic church. He now re¬ 
fumed medical pradice, and eafily obtained letters patent 
from the king, permitting him to continue his ledures, 
and to vend his chemical remedies, leveral of which he 
kept fecret. In 1697, Lemery publifhed his Pharmacopee 
Univerfelle. This work confifts of a colledion of all the 
formulae given in all the books of pharmacy and difpen- 
L E M 
fatories in Europe, with corredions and improvements 5 
and, though overloaded with articles, was a valuable per¬ 
formance at the time. In the next year appeared his Die - 
tiomaire Univerfel des Drogues ftmples, a kill more ufeful 
work, though confiderably ftiort of perfedion. Of its va¬ 
rious editions, that with the additions of Juffieu is the 
beft. Upon the re-eftablifhment of the Academy of Sci¬ 
ences, in 1699, Lemery was appointed affociate-’chemift; 
and foon after, on the death of Bourdelin, he obtained a 
penfioner’s place. He communicated fome memoirs to 
this body, and read before it the papers which in 1707 he 
publifhed collectively, under the title of Traite de VAnti- 
moine. This was a complete account of all the medicinal 
preparations of that mineral known at that period. He 
foop after began to feel the infirmities of age; and in 1715 
was carried off by an apoplexy. Fontenelle , Eloges des Aca- 
demiciens. 
LEM'ERY (Louis), fon of the preceding, was born at 
Paris in 1677. He acquired under his father a tafte for 
chemiftry and medicine; and was admitted to his doc¬ 
tor’s degree in 1698. He gave chemical lectures in the 
royal garden in 1708; and was made one of the phyficians 
of the Hotel Dieu in 1710, which place he iield to his 
death. In 1712 he W'as received as an affociate in the 
Academy of Sciences; and became a penfiorcer on the 
death of his father, in 1715. He purchafed a place of 
king’s phyfician, and in that quality attended the infanta 
of Spain back to her own country. In 1731 he obtained 
the profefforfnip of chemiftry in the royal garden, in place 
of Geoffrey. He was afterwards particularly attached to 
the duchefs of Brunfwick, and the dowager princefs of 
Conti, in whofe hotel he parted great part of his time. He 
died in 1743. The worksof Louis Lemery are, 1. Traitedes 
Alimens, 1702, izmo. chiefly relating to vegetable arti¬ 
cles of food, of which it gives a defeription, with an ac¬ 
count of their qualities : this work was much augmented 
in an edition by Bruhier, 2 vols. umo. 1755- 2. Dif- 
fertation fur laNourriture des Os, 1704, nmo. in this trea- 
tife he maintains the opinion, that the bones are nourifhed 
by a peculiar gelatinous fluid, depofited in their fubftance 
by the fmall arteries, and not by the marrow. To this 
are added three letters on the generation of worms, againfi: 
Andry. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, he 
has given feveral papers on the analyfis of plants, and on 
other chemical topics, on monftrous births, &c. Eloy. DiB. 
LEMEYBAM'BA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of 
Truxillo : twenty-two miles fouth-weft of Chacapoyas. 
LEM'FORD, or Lev'enfurt, a town of Germany, in 
the county of Diepholz: eight miles fouth of Diepholz. 
LEM'GO, or Lem'gow, a town of Weftphalia, in the 
county of Lippe, on a fmall river, near the Werra, divided 
into Old and New Town, each of which is governed by 
its refpedtive magiftrates; formerly one of the Hanfe- 
towns. It is feventeen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Minden, 
and thirty-two north-north-eaft ofLippftadt. Lat. 52. 2. N, 
Ion. 8. 44. E. 
LE'MIA, a fmall ifland on the Pacific Ocean, near the 
coaft of Chili. Lat. 44 6.S. 
LE'MING, or Lem'ming, f See Mus lemmus. 
LEM'INGTON, a poft-town of America, in York 
county, Maine : 610 miles north-eaft from Waftiington. 
LEM'INGTON, a townfldp in Effex county, Vermont^ 
on the weft bank of Connecticut River, and near the 
north-eaft corner of the ftate. 
LEM'INGTON (Lower), a village in Gloucefterfhire, 
five miles from Shipton in Worceftehbire. The Roman 
forte-way enters Gloucefterlhire at this place ; and a great 
many Roman coins have been found, which makes it fup- 
pofed they had a fort or ftation here. 
LEM'INGTON (Upper), near the above; a hamlet in 
the parifti of Toddenham. 
LEM'INGTON PRI'ORS, a village and watering-place 
in Warwickftiire. Here are two medicinal fprings, which, 
in fcorbutic, gouty, and rheumatic, cafes, are held in great 
repute. For rural retirement it has many advantages,' 
being 
