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8. Lepifma minutus, the fmall lepifma: yellow ; tail of 
three bridles. Inhabits the fame country as the preced¬ 
ing ; the appendages of the tail are fometimes wanting. 
LEPI'TA, in Hindoo mythology, a name of Sarafwati, 
fpoufe of Brahma, and goddefs of literature, harmony, 
rhetoric, and the fine arts. See Saraswati. 
LEPO'IS (Nicholas), a phyfician of celerity, was born 
at Nancy in 1527. He ftudied medicine at Paris under 
Sylvius, together with his elder brother, Anthony Lepois, 
who was afterwards firft phyfician to Charles III. duke of 
.Lorraine. In this office Nicholas fucceeded his brother 
in 1578. He fpent his whole time in fick-chambers, or 
in his clofet, perufing the ancient authors from Hippo¬ 
crates downwards. He drew up the refult of his reading, 
corrected and corroborated by his perfonal obfervation, 
in an aphoridic form, chiefly with the view of being fer- 
viceable to his fons, Chridian and Charles, whom he def- 
-tined for the medical profeflion; but his friend the cele¬ 
brated Foefius, and feveral other perfons, having feen his 
manufcript, prevailed upon him to publifh it. It was firfl 
iprinted at Frankfort in 1580, in folio, under the title of 
“ De Cognofcendis et Curandis prscipue internis hu¬ 
man! Corporis Morbis, Libri ti'es, ex clariflimorum Medi- 
corum, turn veterum, turn recentiorum, Monumentis non 
ita pridem collecli.” Boerhaave had fo high an opinion 
of this author, that he edited this work, adding a preface 
-to it, at Leyden, 1736, in two vols. 4to. 
LEPO'IS (Charles), more generally known by his Latin 
■name, Carolus Pifo, was fon of the preceding, mnd born 
at Nancy in 1563. He was fent at the age of thirteen to 
the college of Navarre, at Paris, where he remained five 
years, and didinguifhed himfelf by his rapid advancement 
in the knowledge of the languages, belles lettres, and phi- 
lofophy. He received the degree of M. A. in the uni- 
verfity of Paris in 1581, and immediately commenced his 
career in the fchools of medicine. After four years fpent 
an the faculty at Paris, he went to Padua in 1585, and vi- 
-fited the other fchools and the learned men of Italy before 
he quitted that country. He returned to Paris in the be¬ 
ginning of 1588, and took his bachelor’s degree in me¬ 
dicine, and two years afterwards became a licentiate; but 
he left Paris without having taken the degree of doftor, 
from inability to defray the expenfes of that ceremony, 
in conlequence of the fmall income left him by his fa¬ 
ther. He therefore returned to his native city, where 
duke Charles III. of Lorraine appointed him his confulting 
phyfician, and retained him near his perfon both at home 
and in his travels. Duke Henry II. likewife held him in 
the fame eftimation; and, among many other marks of 
his efteem for Lepois, he inftituted a faculty of medi¬ 
cine at Pont-a-Mouffon, and nominated him dean and firft 
profeffor. In.order to undertake thefe offices, he repaired 
to Paris, where he received the degree of M.D. which 
gave him the power of conferring the fame degree upon 
others ; and commenced the duties of his profefforfhip in 
November 1598. He had now an opportunity of difplay- 
ing the (tores of knowledge, which his acquaintance with 
the Greek and Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spa- 
nifh, languages, had enabled him to obtain; he was in¬ 
defatigable in his obfervation of difeafes, and omitted no 
opportunity of examining by diffeflion the bodies of thofe 
who died ; from which he juftly anticipated the moft im¬ 
portant improvements would accrue to medicine. His 
reputation was elevated to the higheft degree, fo that he 
was the phyfician of all the honourable perfons in Lor¬ 
raine. His zeal in the praflice of his profeflion continued 
unabated, and ultimately occafioned his death at the 
age of feventy; for he died of the plague at Nancy, whi¬ 
ther he had gone to adminifter relief to thofe afflifled by 
.the peflilence, in the year 1633. He left the following 
works, which have tranfmitted his reputation to pofteri- 
ty ; particularly the firft, entitled Selefliorum Obfervatio- 
num et Confiliorum de praeteritis haflenus morbis, affec- 
tibufque praeter naturam ab aqua, feu fcrofa colluvie or- 
tis- } Pont-a-Moufipn, 1618, in 4I0. This work paffed 
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through feveral fubfequent editions, one of which (that 
of Leyden 1733) was publifhed with a preface by the 
celebrated Boerhaave. A feleftion from, or an abridge¬ 
ment of, it was alfo printed in 1639, with the title of pifo 
enucleatus, in 121110. His other works were : 2. Phyficum 
Comets Speculum, 1619, 8vo. 3. Difcours de la Nature, 
Caufes, et Remedes, tant curatifs que prefervatifs, des 
Maladies populaires, accompagnees de Dyfenterie et autres 
Flux de Ventre, 1623, 121110. 4. He tranflated from 
the Spanifh into Latin, Ludovici Mercati Inftitutiones ad 
ufum et examen eorum qui artem luxatoriam exercent; 
Frankfort, 1625, folio. 5. He likewife publifhed the fol¬ 
lowing eulogy of his firfl patron: Caroli III. Sereniffimi 
Potentiflimique Ducis Lotharingise, See. Macarifmos, feu 
felicitatis et virtutum egregio Principe dignarum coro¬ 
na:, 1690. Eloy Did. de la Med. 
LEPOME'RO, a town of New Mexico, in the province 
of Hiagui: 130 miles eafl-north-eaft of Riochico. 
LEPORA'RIA,yi [from lepus, Lat. a hare.] A dif- 
temper of the eyes which will not fuffer the eye-lids to 
clofe. 
LEPORA'RIUS, f. A grey-hound. Cole. 
LEPORE'AN, adj. See Leporine. 
LEP'ORINE, adj. [ leporinus , Lat.] Belonging to a 
hare ; having the nature of a hare. 
LEPO'TI, a town of the principality of Georgia, in the 
province of Kaket: twenty-two miles fouth-eafl of iCa- 
ket; and fixty north-eall of Tefiis. 
LEP'PE, a river of Germany, which runs into the Ag- 
gar in the county of Mark. 
LEPPOWIR'TA, a town of Sweden, in the govern-^ 
ment of Kuopio: twenty-four miles fouth of Kuopio. 
LE'PRA,/ See Leprosy. 
LE'PRA LAN'KENG, a town of Thibet: fixty-eight 
miles fouth-eafl of Toudfong. 
LEPRA'RIA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs cryp- 
togamia, order algse. Generic effential charafters—Fruc¬ 
tification in a powdery or floccular fubftance, moftly clo- 
thing a thin cruflaceous frond. 
I. Continued, zoithout vifible frond. Pulveraria. 
Species. 1. Lepraria chlorina: thick, effufe, deep yellow, 
2. Lepraria latebrarum: thick, effufe, grey. 
II. Continued, frond cruflaceous. Lepraria. 
3. Lepraria alba: cruft and fruflification pure white. 
4. Lepraria incana : cruft thin, foinewhat membranace¬ 
ous, grey-glaucous; fruflification hoary. 
5. Lepraria lepiphsema : thin, milk-white; fruflification 
very minute, mealy, palifh-white. 
6. Lepraria lutefeens : leprous, a little cracked, rugged, 
yellowifh; fruflification globular, of the fame colour. 
7. Lepraria flava: thin, mealy, bright golden yellow. 
8. Lepraria baffis: thin, faffron; fruflification globu¬ 
lar, fcattered, orange-colour. 
9. Lepraria rubens: cruft and fruflification pale red, 
< 3 .L. putredinis : very thin, purplifh. y. L. variegata; 
variegated white and flefh-colour. 
10. Lepraria botryoides : cruft and fruit deep green. 
11. Lepraria cobaltiginea: very broad, rofy. 
12. Lepraria antiquitatis: very thin, deep black. 
13. Lepraria fegeftria: thin, grey. 
14. Lepraria iolithus: thin, mealy, faffron red, becom¬ 
ing greyilh. ( 3 . L. odoratus; cruft and fruflification .caa- 
mine. 
III. In Jiocular rigid maffes-, frond cruflaceous. Spiloma. 
15. Lepraria melanopa: thin, effufe, blackifh ; maffes 
of the fruflification flat, broader, deformed, fomewhat 
confluent, deep black. 
16. Lepraria microclona: very thin, hoary; maffes mi¬ 
nute, fcattered and fomewhat confluent and branched, 
black. 
17. Lepraria fallax : greyifh, very thin; maffes deform¬ 
ed, minute, flat, fcattered, blackifh-brown; 
iS. Lepraria 
