M U S 
MU'SIC-MASTER, f. One who teaches raufic.—We 
have dancing-mailers and mu/ic-mafters. Arbnt/mot and 
Pope. 
Now look into the mnfic-maflei'' s gains, 
Where noble youth at vaft expenle is taught, 
But eloquence not valu’d at a groat. Dryden's Juv. 
MU'SICAL, aclj Harmonious; melodious, fweet found¬ 
ing.—Neither is it enough to give his author’s fenfe in 
poetical expreffions and in mufical numbers. Dryden. 
Sweet bird that Ihunn’ft the noile of folly, 
Moll mufical, mod melancholy; 
Thee, chauntrefs, oft the woods among 
I woo to hear thy even-fong. Milton's II Penf. 
Belonging to mufic.—Several mufical inftruments are to 
be feen in the hands of Apollo’s mufes, which might 
give great light to the difpute between the ancient and 
modern mufic. Addifon. 
MU'SICALLY, ailv. Harmonioufly; with fweet found. 
—Valentine, mnfically coy, fnunn’d Pluedra’s arms. 
AddiJ'on. —In conformity to the rules of mufic.—Though 
he be not apt to break out into linging, yet he will 
drink often mufically a health to every one of thefe fix 
notes, ut, re, mi, fa, fol, la. Howel. 
MU'SIC ALNESS,/! Harmony.—The peculiar mufcal- 
nefs of the firft of thefe lines, in particular, arifes prin¬ 
cipally from its confiding entirely of iambic feet. War- 
ton's EJfay on Pope. 
MUSI'CIAN, f. One fkilled in harmony; one who 
performs on inftruments of mufic: 
The nightingale, if flie Ihould fing by day, 
When every goofe is cackling, would be thought 
No better a mufician than the wren. Shakefpeare. 
A compofer of mufic.—A painter may make a better face 
than ever was ; but he muft do it by a kind of felicity, 
as a mufician that maketh an excellent air in mufic, and 
not by rule. Bacon’s Effays. 
Mufician is a title given equally to him who compofes 
and to him who performs mufic. The firft is, however, 
more frequently and more civilly ftyled compofer. Mu- 
ficians, among the ancients, were poets, philofophers, 
and orators of the firft clafs. Such were Orpheus, Ter- 
pander, Stefichorus, &c. Nor would Boethius honour 
with the name of mufician him who only in a fervile 
manner praCtifed mufic mechanically with his fingers or 
voice, but him who poffelfed the fcience of mufic by rea- 
fon and {peculation. “ And it feems,” fays Rouffeau, 
“ that to mount to elevated expreftion in oratorical and 
imitative mufic, the human pafiions and the language of 
nature muft have been made a particular ftudy. But the 
muficians of our times, bounded for the moll part by the 
practice of notes, and a few paffages, will not, it is hoped, 
be offended, if we fnould not hold them to be great 
philofophers.” 
MUSIL'LIM, or Mu'slim A'li, a numerous tribe of 
Arabians, on the borders of the Perfian gulf, between 
Oman and Lachfa. 
MUSIMPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar, near 
the right bank of the Ganges: fourteen miles fouth-eaft 
of Patna. 
MU'SING,./! [from mufeJ] Meditation; contemplation. 
—Wifdom and knowledge are fweet as the wakened mu- 
ftngs of delightful thoughts, which not only dew the 
mind with perfumes that ever refrelh us, but raife us to 
the mountain that gives us view of Canaan; and lliew us 
rays and glimpfes of the glory that ftiall after crown us. 
Feltliam on Ecclef. 
If we did think 
His contemplation were above the earth. 
And fix’d on fpiritual object, he fliould ftill 
Dwell in his mufings. Shaltefpeare's Hen. 'VIII. 
Abfence of mind.—Thick-ey’d mufing , and curs’d me¬ 
lancholy. Shakefpeare. 
M U S 399 
MUSITAU 7 (Charles), a phyfician, was born at Caf- 
trovalle, in Calabria, in January 1635. He received his 
medical education, and took the degree of dofitor, at 
Naples, where he likewife fixed his refidence, and ob¬ 
tained confiderable reputation as a practitioner. He was 
honoured by being eleCted into the different learned fo- 
cieties of Italy, and by the appointment to a profefforlhip 
in the univerfity of Naples. He combined the two pro- 
feflions of theology and phyfic in his own perfon; and, as 
his fuccefs excited the jealoufy and rancour of his lefs- 
fortunate brethren, the alferted indecency of this com¬ 
bination was made a pretext for attempting to interdict 
him altogether from the practice of medicine. His merits, 
however, obtained for him the patronage and protection 
of pope Clement IX. and of cardinal Pignatelli, arch- 
bilhop of Naples, (and afterwards the fovereign pontiff, 
under the name of Innocent XII.) who permitted him to 
hear confefiions. He lived in the general efteein of his 
fellow-citizens; and died regretted in 1714., at the age of 
ninety-feven. In his pathological creed, he was a (launch 
adherent of the chemical feci, and an avowed enemy to 
Galenifm. His deferiptions of difeafe are prolix and ob- 
feure; and his hypothefes and practice abound with the 
errors of the fchool to which he was attached. The fol¬ 
lowing is a catalogue of his writings : 1. Pyretologia, 
feu de Febribus; Naples, 1683. 2. Del Mai Francefe, 
four books; 1697. 3. Chirurgia Theoretico-praClica; 
feu Trutina Chirurgico-phyfica; Genev. 1698. 4. Apo¬ 
logia celeberrimorum Virorum; 1700. 5. Trutina Me- 
dico-phyfica; 1701. 6. Mantilla ad Hadriani a Mynficht 
Thelaurum et Armamentarium Medico-chymicum; 1701. 
7. De Morbis Mulierum ; 1709. Thefe works were pub- 
liftied collectively at Geneva, in two vols.4to. 1701. and 
in two vols. folio, 1716. The latter edition contained 
alfo fome other trads by the author. Eloy Did. de la Med. 
_ MUSI'TIAN, a town of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Tucuman : forty-twO miles fouth-eaft of Rioja. 
MUSK, f. [ mufehio , Ital. mufc, Fr. from the Arab. 
mofclia.'] A dry, light, and friable, fubftance, of a dark 
blackilh colour, with fome tinge of a purplilh or blood- 
colour in it, feeling fomewhat (fnooth or unCtuous: its 
fmell is highly perfumed, and too ftrong to be agreeable 
in any large quantity : its tafte is bitterifii: it is brought 
from the Eall Indies, rnoftly from the kingdom of Bantam, 
fome from Tonquin and Cochin China. The animal 
which produces it is of a very fingular kind ; it is of the 
lize of a common goat, but taller. See Moschus, p. 35. 
— Some putrefaftions and excrements yield excellent 
odours ; as civet and mujk. Bacon's Nat. Hijl. 
From the refult of chemical experiments, mu(k appears 
to contain albumen, gelatine, muriat of ammonia, phof- 
phat of loda, and an uncombined acid; but the greater 
part of it confifts of a refin combined with a volatile oil, 
and a mucilaginous extractive matter. 
Mulk is in confiderable ufe among the perfumers and 
confectioners, though much lefs now than it was for¬ 
merly. It is luppoled to fortify the heart and brain, and 
is good againft deafnefs, and is now received in general 
practice in different convulfive diforders; and its dole 
lias been increaled with advantage to a fcruple and half 
a drachm, every four or fix hours. Mulk and other per 
fumes of the fame tribe have been long celebrated as 
antifpafmodics, but were formerly ordered in fiuch final 1 
quantities as to have little effeCt. Practitioners thought 
four or five grains a large dole. But the Chineie have 
taught us to be more bold; the tenth part of an ounce is 
a uiual dofe among them. The remedy in the Eaft for Uie 
bite of a mad dog contains lixteen grains of mufic; and 
this they repeat frequently. 
The operation of mulk, in fome refpeCls, refembles that 
of opium ; but is in this much preferable, that it docs 
not leave behind it any ftupor or languidnefs, which the 
latter often does. Mufk, therefore, feems likely toanfwer 
in thofe low cafes where ileep is much wanted, and opiates 
are improper. It is laid to be belt given in a bolus, and 
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