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Some of his topics are here fufiiciently diverting: u Ra¬ 
ther than painful, the itch,” lays he, “is by many perions 
accounted exceedingly pleafmg. It will ferve to awaken 
you in the night, better than either clock or watchman. 
If the difeafe be dirt}' and lhameful; fo are not the reme¬ 
dies by which it is to be cured ; for, what can be prefer¬ 
able to exercife, the bath, temperance in deep and diet ? 
Hands bearing the marks of this diforder may appear dif- 
graceful ; but that patience which endures it without 
fretfulnefs, is highly honourable. It may be vexatious 
to have the whole body covered over with this cutaneous 
diitemper j but, alas! how little do we concern ourfeives 
for thofe more grievous diftempers of our minds, lull, ava¬ 
rice, ambition, the third: for revenge, and all the kindred 
train of inordinate paflions!” Such are the reflections ot 
the elegant Petrarch concerning a diforder which cannot 
now be named without indelicacy. From the language 
in which he fpeaks of it, and from the confideration of its 
being numbered by him among other common 1’ources of 
the vexations of human life, we may infer that it was, in 
the days of Petrarch, a not-unfrequent complaint among 
nil ranks in life, and throughout the fouthern regions of 
Europe. For the medical hiltory and cure of the diforder, 
fee the article Pathology. 
Itch-Insect, See Acarus, vol. i. p. 51. In fpeak- 
■ ing of the planner of finding thefe infefts in the itch, Fa- 
bricius obferves, that the failure of many who have fought 
for them, has been owing to their having expefted to meet 
with them in the larger veficles, that contain a yellowilli 
fluid like pus ; in thel'e, however, he tells us, he has ne¬ 
ver found them, but in thofe pultules only which are re¬ 
cent, and contain only a watery fluid. We mult there¬ 
fore, he oblerves, not expeft to find them in the fame pro¬ 
portionate number in patients who for many months have 
been afiiidted with the difeal'e, as in thofe in whom its ap¬ 
pearance is recent, and where it is confined to the fingers 
or wrilts. The caufe of this difference with refpeft to the 
pultules, he conjectures, may be owing to the death of the 
infedt after it has depofited Its eggs. A final 1 tranl'parent 
veficle being found, a very minute white point, diltinct 
from the lurrounding fluid, may be dilcovered, and very 
often even wdthout the affiftance of a glafs : this is the 
infeft, which may be eafily taken out on the point of a 
needle or penknife, and when placed on a green cloth 
may be leen much more diftinctly, and obferved to move. 
To ITCH, v. n. To feel that unealinefs in the Ikin which 
is removed by rubbing.—A troublefome itching of the part 
was occafioned by want of tranfpiration. Wife man's Surgery. 
My right eye itches ; fome good luck is near j 
Perhaps my Amaryllis may appear. Dryden. 
To long; to have continual defire. This fenfe appears 
in the following examples, though fome of them are equi¬ 
vocal.—Mafter Shallow, you have yourfelf been a great 
fighter, though now a man of peace. Mr. Page, though 
now I be old, and of the peace, it I fee a fword out, my 
finger itches to make one. ShaAefpeare. 
All fuch have Hill an itching to deride. 
And fain would be upon the laughing fide. Pope. 
(TCHAPOlFR, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 
Ellichpour: forty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Eliich- 
pour, and one hundred eaft-north-eaft of Aurungabad. 
Lat. 20. 28. N. Ion. 77. 38. E. 
ITCHAPOIFR, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 
Cicacole: thirty miles foilth-fouth-weft of Ganjam. 
ITCHAU'R, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 
Hindia : thirty miles north of Hindia. 
IT'' CHE, a town of Thibet: ninety-five miles fouth- 
iveft of Cha-tcheou. 
ITCH'ING, f. That fenfation in the lkin which is re¬ 
moved by rubbing the part; a teazing defire. 
TTCH'ING, or Al're, a river of England, in the coun¬ 
ty of Hants, which riles near Alresford, and runs into 
Southampton Water a little below Southampton. 
ITCIIO'RA, a river of Ruflla, which runs into the 
Lena near Itchorika in the government of Irkutlk, 
I T E 
ITCHOR'SKA, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Irkutlk, on the Lena: eighty miles north-eaft of Kir 
renlk. 
IFCH'T, adj. Infedted with the itch. 
IT'EA, a daughter of Danaus. Hygin. 170. 
I F'EA, J. [vafez to ufo-i, Gr. from its quick growth, 
or early germination.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
pentandria, order monogynia, natural order of rhododen- 
dra, (cyrilla inter ericas. Jiff.) The generic characters 
are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, five-cleft, upright ; 
fegments lanceolate, acute, permanent, coloured. Corol¬ 
la : petals five; felliie, lanceolate, acuminate, fpreading, 
deciduous. Stamina: filaments five; awl-lhaped, upright; 
the length of the corolla, inferted into the bale of the ca¬ 
lyx ; antherse roundilh, incumbent. Piftillum : germ 
ovate, fuperior; ftyle permanent, cylindrical; the length 
of the ftamens ; ftigmas two, blunt. Pericarpium :. cap- 
fule ovate, longer than the calyx, mucronated by the ftyle-, 
two-celled, two-valved, many-feeded. Seeds very fmall, 
oblong, fliining.— EJfential CiiaraEler. Capfule two-celled, 
two-valved, many-leeded; ftigma emarginate. 
Species. 1. Itea Virginica, or Virginian itea: leaves 
ovate, acute, ferrate. This is a fiirub fix or feven feet 
high, fending out many branches from bottom to top. 
Leaves alternate, flightly ferrate, reflex, veined, light green. 
At the extremity of the fame year’s (hoots, in the month 
of July, are produced fine fpikes of white flowers, three 
or four inches long, and ereft. When this (hrub is in vi¬ 
gour, it is entirely covered with thefe flowers, and then 
makes a fine appearance. Linnaeus remarks, that the Itea 
has the appearance of the Padus ; that the leaves are pe- 
tioled, and the flowers in terminating racemes. The ftigma 
is headed in this fpecies, whereas in the next it is bifid or 
double. Native of North America; cultivated in 1744. 
by Archibald duke of Argyle. 
2. Itea cyrilla, or entire-leaved itea : leaves lanceolate, 
entire, membranaceous. This is alfo a (hrub, three feet 
in height. Stem upright, fomewhat branched, round, afn- 
coloured ; branches alternate or fcattered, fpreading, an¬ 
gular, rufous, fmooth. Leaves alternate, bluntifli, revo¬ 
lute, with the edges a little waved, one-nerved ; the mid¬ 
rib marked with lines above, prominent underneath, 
fmooth, paler underneath, dry, fpreading, flat, permanent, 
three inches long, and an inch wide. Flowers fcattered, 
pedicelled, fpreading, white, two or three lines in diame¬ 
ter. Bradte linear, very (harp, white, withering under 
the pedicels, than which it is fcarcely longer. Bradteole 
two-leaved, oppofite, linear, (harp, prefled clofe on the 
pedicel itfelf next the calyx ; which is white. Petals 
longer than the calyx; inferted, not into the calyx, but 
the receptacle ; the ftyle bifid, and the capfule not open¬ 
ing. Antherre two-celled, peltate, very pale violet. Germ 
whitifli; ftyle (hort, comprefied, fcarcely bifid, (horter 
than the ftamens; ftigmas headed. Capfule fitting on the 
calyx, rel’embling two united ftyles by means of its dou¬ 
ble partitions. The conformity of the flower and two- 
celled fruit perfuade us to unite thefe two fpecies under 
one genus. Native of Carolina and Jamaica. It was ob¬ 
ferved in the forniqr by Dr. Garden, in the latter by 
Swartz; introduced here in 1765, by Mr. John Cree. It 
flowers in July and Auguft. 
Propagation and Culture. -The fil'd fpecies will live in 
the open air in England, but will not thrive upon dry gra¬ 
velly ground. It is propagated by layers, which, if laid 
down in the autumn, will put out roots fo as to be fit to 
remove by the following autumn, when they may be 
tranfplanted into a nurfery, or to the place where they 
are to remain. The fecond fort requires the protection 
of the green-houfe 3 and may be increafed by layers or; 
cuttings. 
FTEM, adv. [Latin.] Alfo. A word ufed when any 
article is added to the former. 
I'TEM, f. A new article.—I could have looked on him 
without the help of admiration, though the catalogue of 
his endowments had been tabled by his fide, and I to pe¬ 
nile him by items, Shahejpeare.—A hint; an inuendo.—If 
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