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gan likewife to praCtife medicine, in which his fnecefs 
was fuch, that the marquis of Anfpach appointed him 
phyfician to the town of Creiltheim in Franconia; whi¬ 
ther he repaired in 1680, after having been admitted a‘li¬ 
centiate in medicine at Altdorf. He afterwards fettled at 
Stutgard, and was patronifed by the marquis of Dourlach ; 
and, when that prince was driven by the war to take re¬ 
fuge at Bade, he was nominated honorary phyfician to the 
duke of Wirtemberg, and became his firft phyfician in 
1711. He accompanied the fon cf this prince in his tra¬ 
vels, during three years; and after his return, in 1716, 
remained in the tranquil exercife of his profeflion until 
his death, in February 1733. Linfenbahrt was the firft 
who recommended the ufe of arfenic internally for the 
cure of intermittent fevers, in which its efficacy has been 
eftablifhed by recent obfervers, and efpecially by Dr. 
Fowler, of York. He was a decided enemy to blood¬ 
letting, which he ftrenuoufty endeavoured to difcard from 
the practice of medicine ; and particularly condemned 
the cuftom, then prevalent among the Germans, of let¬ 
ting blood at the equinoctial periods, againft which he 
publifhed a treatife in his mother-tongue, at Ulm, in 1692. 
He was likewife author of the following works : 1. Ta¬ 
bula Confultatoria Medica, Ulm, 1696. 2. Mifcellanea 
Medico-PraCtica tripartita, 1694. 3. De Hydrophobias 
Caufa et Cura, Differtatio, ibid. 1707. 4. Eteodromus 
Medico-PraCticus Anni 1709 ; Stutgard, 1711. 5. Jatrom- 
nemata Theoretico-PraCtica, 1712. 
LINSEL'LES, a town of France, in the department of 
the North: five miles north of Lifle. 
LIN'SEY-WOOL'SEY, adj. Made of linen and wool 
mixed. Vile ; mean ; of different and unfuitable parts : 
A lawlefs linfey-woolfie brother, 
Half of one order, half another. Hudibras . 
Peel’d, patch’d and pybald, \infey-rooolfey brothers, 
•Grave mummers! fleevelefs fome, and fhirtlefs others. Pope. 
•LINS'SE, a town of the Farther Pomerania; three miles 
fouth-weft of Belgard. 
LIN'STEAD, a village in Kent, four miles from Fever- 
fham. / 
LIN'STEAD, Great and Little, villages in Suffolk j 
weft of Halefworth. 
LIN'STEIN, a town of Flanders; three miles fouth of 
Hullt. 
LIN'STOCK, or Lint'stock, f. [ lunte , or lente , Teu¬ 
tonic ; lint and Jlock.~\ A ftaff of wood with a match at 
the end of it, ufed by gunners in firing cannon. Hanmer . 
The nimble gunner 
With linjlock now the dev’lifli cannon touches, 
And down goes all before him. Skakefpeare. 
The linftockis commonly about three feet long, having 
at one end a piece of iron divided into two branches, each 
•of which has a notch to hold a piece of match, and a 
fcrew to fallen it there ; the other end being alfo fhod 
with iron, and pointed to (tick into the ground, or in the 
fieck when it is ufed at fea. It is ufed by the gunners 
in firing cannon. It is frequently ufed in fmall veffels, in 
•an engagement, where there is commonly one fixed be¬ 
tween every two guns, by which the match is always kept 
dry and ready for firing. 
LIN'STORP, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Medelpadia : fixteen miles north of Sundfwal. 
LIN'STRE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Forelts : eight miles north-north-eaft of Luxemburg. 
LINT,/, \_linteum, Latin ; llin, Welfh and Erfe.] The 
foft fubftance commonly called flax. Linen fcraped into 
foft woolly fubftance to lay on fores.—I dreffed them up 
with unguentum bafilici cum vitello ovi, upon pledgits of 
lint. Wifernari's Surgery. 
Lint, made up in an oval or orbicular form, is called a 
pledgit ; if in a cylindrical form, or in the fhape of a date 
4>live-ftone, it is called a dojjit. Thefe different forms of 
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lint are required for many puroofes; as, 1. To flop blood 
in frefli wounds, by filling them up with dry lint before 
the application of a bandage; though, if fcraped lint be 
not at hand, a piece of fine linen may be torn into lmall 
rags, and applied in the fame manner. In very large he¬ 
morrhages the lint, or rags, (hould be firft dipped in fome 
ftyptic liquor, alcohol, or oil of turpentine, or fprinkled 
with a (iyptic powder. 2. To agglutinate and heal wounds; 
to which end lint is very ferviceable, if fpread with fome 
digeftive ointment orbalfam, or dipped in fome vulnerary 
iiquor. 3. In drying up wounds and ulcers, and for* 
warding the formation of a cicatrix. 4. In keeping the 
lips of wounds at a proper diftance, that they may not 
haftily unite, before the bottom is well digefted and healed. 
5. They are highly neceffary to preferve wounds from the 
injuries of the air. Small portions of lint tied round with 
thread are chiefly ufed in drefiing wounds and ulcers of 
the deeper kind. They are always applied to the bottom 
of fuch wounds, the remaining cavity being filled up with 
other portions of lint. By this means, the immediate re¬ 
moval of the dreflings is not only provided for, but the 
poflibility of leaving any part of them in the bottom of 
the wound is prevented. In very large wounds, and ef¬ 
pecially in amputations of the limbs, which operations 
are frequently required in the army and navy at times 
when lint is very fcarce, it will be very fufficient to drefs 
the bare bone and face of the wound with fcraped lint, 
filling up the cavity with tow, and covering all with a 
large comprefs. Surgeons of former ages formed com- 
preffes of lponge, feathers, wool, or cotton, linen being 
fcarce; but lint is far preferable to all thefe, and is at 
prefent univerfally ufed. 
Mr. Dumbell, in his extenfive linen-works at Liver¬ 
pool, has brought to great perfection a new fpecies of lint, 
which in quality, price, and novelty of invention, at¬ 
tracts at this moment the notice of the medical world. 
When we confider that this ufeful article has lain dor¬ 
mant without improvement for many years, and that we 
are almoft wholly indebted to foreign countries for the 
rags of which the lint hitherto ufed is made, we rejoice 
to find that this fubjeft has engaged a proper attention in 
an eftablifhment where it promifes to be carried on with 
fpirit and fcience ; and the more fo when we reflect that 
fome of thofe rags have been laft tenanted by nothing 
fiiort of the dead bodies of the victims of fome loathfome, 
epidemic, or peftilential, difeafe, from the contagious in¬ 
fluence of which a Ample wafhing may not have cleanfed 
them, or from the continuance of which a new diforder 
may be unknowingly inoculated, or rafhly implanted 
from this lurking-place, more deadly than the wound it 
is meant to cure. We underftand that Mr. Dumbell’s 
procefs is (fomething like hat-making) by felting, mace¬ 
rating, and bleaching, Englilh-grown flax, with Ample 
water; whereby not only every noxious ingredient is re¬ 
jected, but that venomous mixture of cotton, with which 
almoft all Englifh rags abound, is avoided ; by which cot¬ 
ton, wounds are retarded in their cure, fettered, and made 
virulent. The procefs is worked under the protection of 
letters patent; but the patentee’s objeCt, we are told from * 
good authority, is to acquire profit by the very great ex¬ 
tent of his fales, and not by any unfair ufe of his mono¬ 
poly ; and we underftand he is now bringing into the 
market, in very large quantities, the belt lint at 4s. 6d. per 
pound, which is about one-half the price a very inferior 
article has hitherto been fold at. It is got up in two 
different ftates, thin and firm, for the fpatula ; and foft, 
fpongy, and porous, forabforbents, lotions, embrocations, 
catapiafms, doflils, pledgilts, &c. 
LIN'TEL, / \linteau, Fr.] That part of the door-frame 
that lies acrols the door-pofts over-head. —^When you lay 
any timber or brick-work as lintels over windows, lay theta 
in loam, which is a great preferver of timber'. Moxon. 
"Silver the lintals deep projecting o’er. 
And gold the ringlets that command the door. Pope. 
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