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it as firm as the other. The only difference was, that it was 
fomewhat thicker, and a little more curved. The mufcles 
retained their natural foftnefs and loofenefs on the bone. 
The detached piece of bone was a portion of its whole 
circumference. 
Though necrofis moftly attacks the cylindrical bones, 
the flat ones are not exempt from the difeafe. Pott makes 
mention of a parietal bone, the whole of which was de¬ 
tached, and of an os frontis, the greateft part of which 
came away. In a thefis on necrofis, in 1776, aux ecoles de 
chirurgie, may be found the cafe of a young man, a 
very large part of whofe fcopula perifhed and came away, 
Chopart, who relates the cafe, mentions, that he faw the 
patient quite recovered, and felt a new triangular move- 
able bone, firmly fupporting the clavicle, but fmaller and 
flatter than natural, and without any fpinous procefs. The 
fame has happened to the lower jaw, as may be feen by 
referring to the Ephemerides Germania, and Mem. de 
1 ’Acad. de Chirurgie. In the fifth volume of the latter 
work is an account of a woman who applied to be relieved 
of fome venereal complaints. From the beginning of the 
treatment, the bone was difcovered to be loofe jult under 
the gums, and feemed (hortly afterwards to move back¬ 
wards and forwards with a tooth. Mr. Guernery took 
hold of the tooth with a key-inftrument, and found it 
firmly inferted in the moveable piece of the jaw; he made 
with caution the neceffary manoeuvres for extracting the 
portion of bone; but was greatly furprifed on finding 
what an extenfive part yielded to his very moderate efforts. 
It was the whole of the lower jaw, above its right angle, 
from its divifion into the coronoid and condyloid pro- 
cefles to the fpace between the firft and fecond of the 
front grinders of the left fide. On the right, there only 
remained the condyle in the articular cavity of the tem¬ 
poral bone. This deftrudlion left a confiderable empty 
fpace, from which great deformity was apprehended, in 
confeque’n'ce of the unfupported loft parts falling down. 
The woman, how'ever, got well in two months, and had 
the moll perfedl ufe of a new jaw. A fimilar fadl is re¬ 
corded in the Journal de Medecine, 1791. 
In cafes of necrofis, the furgical indications are few and 
obvious; viz. 1. When inflammation attends any llage of 
the difeafe, to have recourfe to common antiphlogiftic 
means, a. To promote the feparation or abforption of 
the dead bone, according as it tends to make its way out¬ 
ward, or to become completely incafed with new bony 
matter; and, in this fituation, to be invifibly and gra¬ 
dually removed by a natural procefs. 3. When the con- 
flit ution fieems unable to luftain any longer the effedls of 
the local difeafe, to amputate, if the fituation of the af¬ 
fection will permit. For farther inffruftion, fee Ruifell 
on Necrofis, 1794. Mem.de FAcad.de Chirurgie, tom. v. 
Boyer on the Difeafes of the Bones; Crowther on White 
Swelling; Richerand’s Nofographie Chirurgicale, tom. iii. 
Leveille Nouvelle Dodlrine Chirurgicale, tom. iv. v. but 
efpecially Weidmann De Necrofi Olfium, with plates, folio; 
Frank!. 1793. 
NECTAN'DRA, f. in botany. See Gnidia, Poros- 
TEMA, and Struthiola. 
NECTANE'BIS I. and II. kings of Egypt. See that 
article, vol. vi. p. 297, 8. 
NEC'TAR, ft [Gr. Lat. and Fr.] Pleafant liquor, faid 
to be drunk by the heathen deities ; any pleafant liquor; 
Thus having lpoke, the nymph the table fpread, 
Ambrofial cates with nedar rofy red. Pope's Odyjft. 
Nedar is alfo ufed, by fome of the ancients, to exprefs 
honey: this lignification of the word was owing to the 
fuppolition that honey was the drink of the bees, as they 
efteemed the yellow matter colledled on their thighs to 
be their food. They called the latter ambrojia. It feerns 
that the ancients have been more in the right, as to their 
opinion of the ambroiia, than other authors, who have 
ufually elteemed that yellow fubftance to be true wax: 
but it appears from experiments, that it is not really fo; 
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nor can wax be feparated from it by any of the known 
procefies of chemiftry. It feems rather that the bees eat 
it, agreeably to the opinion of the ancients, and that, after 
having ferved them as nourifhment, it is converted in the 
bowels into the fubftance we call wax. 
NEC'TAR-DROPPING, adj. Yielding nedlar: 
Zephyr in the fpring 
Gently diftils his nedar-dropping fhowers. Drummond. 
Exceeding fweet and harmonious.—Thy nectar-dropping 
mufe, thy fugar’d fong. Moore's Cupid's Coufiid, 1647. 
NECTA'REAL, or Nectarean, adj. Sweet as nedlar; 
refembling nedlar.—A nedarean , a baliam, kifs. Burton's 
A natomy of Melancholy. 
Thy ne'dareal fragrancy 
Hourly there meets 
An univerfal fynod of all fweefcs. Crafhaw's Poems. 
NEC'TARED, adj. Tinged with nedlar; mingled with 
nedlar; abounding \Vith nedlar: 
How charming is divine philofophy ! 
Not harfli and crabbed, as dull fools fuppofe, 
But mufical as is Apollo’s lute. 
And a perpetual feaft of nedar'd fweets, 
Where no crude furfeit reigns. Milton's Comus. 
He with the Nai’s wont to dwell. 
Leaving the nedar'd feafts of Jove. Felton. 
NECTA'REOUS, adj. Refembling nedlar; fweet as 
nedlar: 
Annual for me, the grape, the role, renew 
The juice nedareous and the balmy dew. Pope . 
NEC'TARINE, adj. Sweet as nedlar: 
To their fupper-fruits they fell, 
Nedarine fruits. Milton's Paradife Loft. 
NEC'TARINE, /I [French.] A fruit of the plum kind, 
greatly efteemed for its delicious flavour, and iuppofed 
to have its name from the nedlar of the gods, in heathen 
ftories. It differs in nothing from the peach, but in 
having a fmooth rind and the flefli firmer. See Amyg- 
dalus Perfica, vol. i. p. 494. and the article Horticul¬ 
ture, vol. x. p. 394, 5.—The only nedarin.es are the murry 
and the French ; of the laft there are two forts, one, which 
is the beft, very round, and the other fomething long ; 
of the murry there are feveral forts. Temple. 
NECTA'RIUM, /.’ in botany, the nedlary, or honey- 
cup ; fo denominated by Linnaeus, according to the meta¬ 
phorical fenfe in which the word nedar is otten elegantly 
applied, by the Latin writers, to honey. This in Linnaean 
language is reftrained to fome part of the flower, and is 
defined an organ which contains, or which lecretes, honey. 
Similar organs are found on the ftalks or leaves of feveral 
plants, which produce a liquid, differing in no refpedla 
from what is found in flowers; but Inch are termed ntdu- 
rifevents glands. See the article Botany, vol. iii. p. 248. 
and Plate VIII. 
In diferiminating the genera, the nedlarium often fur- 
niflies an effential charadler. Plants which have the nec- 
tariurn diftindl from the petals, that is, not lodged within 
their l'ubllance, are affirmed by Linnaeus to be generally 
poifonous. The following are adduced as examples ; 
monk’s-hood, hellebore, columbine, fennel-flower, bar¬ 
ren-wort, oleander, bean-caper, fucculent Iwallow-wort;, 
fraxinella, honey-flower, and a few others. 
NECTA'RIUS, made patriarch of Conftantinople by 
the younger Theodofius in 381. Having governed the 
church with great piety, and abolilfied the ufe of con- 
feflion in the Eaft, he died 397, and was lucceeded by 
St. Chryfoftom. Jones's Biog. Did. L 
To NEC'TARIZE, v. a. [from nedar.] To fweetem 
Not in ufe. Cockeram. 
NEC'TAROUS, adj. Sweet as nedlar: 
Nedurous draughts between from milky ftream. 
Berry, or grape. Milton. 
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