terminates in a long fpike deftitute of leaves. The ufes, as pofts or rails. Of this meaning I am leaves are heart-shaped, and grow on footftalks. doubtful.The whole plant has a ftrong fetid fmell. It grows commonly in woods and fhady places, and flowers in July or Auguft. STACK. n. f. facca, Ital.] 1. A large quantity of hay, corn, or wood, heaped up regularly together.-Against every pillar was a stack of billets. Bacon. While the marquis and his fervant were chafing the kid about the stack, the prince killed him with a piftol. Wotton. While the cock Milton. To the flack or the barn-door, Stoutly ftruts, his dame before. -Stacks of moift corn grow hot by fermentation. Newton. Whole ricks of hay and ftacks of corn Were down the fudden current born. Swift. 2. A number of chimneys or funnels standing together. A mafon making a stack of chimneys. Wiseman. To STACK. v. a. [from the noun.] To pile up regularly in ricks.— So likewife a hovel will ferve for a room, To ftack on the pease. Tuffer. -The prices of stacking up of wood I fhall give you. Mortimer. STACKHOUSE, Thomas, a learned and pious English divine, who was many years curate of Finchley, and afterwards vicar of Beenham, in Berkshire. He first attracted the public attention by his treatife On the Miseries of the Inferior Clergy: 1722. He acquired ftill greater fame by his, New Hiftory of the Bible; in 2 vols. folio; which has been often reprinted, in 6 or 8 vols. 8vo. He alfo wrote feveral other works; and died in 1752. STACTE. n. S. An aromatick; the gum that diftills from the tree which produces myrrh.Take sweet spices, sta&te, and galbanum. Ex. xxx. STADE, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Bremen, belonging to King George III. formerly one of the Hanfe towns; feated on the Swingel, at its conflux with the Elbe: 22 miles W. of Ham burg, and 45 NE. of Bremen. Lon. 9. 17. E. Lat. 53.36. N. STADIUM, an ancient Greek long measure, containing 125 geometrical paces, or 625 Roman feet, correfponding to our furlong. The word is faid to be formed from the Greek word saris, a ftation, or us, to ftand, because it is reported that Hercules having run a stadium at one breath, ftood still at the end of it. The Greeks ufually measured diftances by ftadia, which they called spadias. Stadium alfo fignified the courfe on which their races were run. Leave growing for fadles. Tuffer. -Coppice-woods, if you leave in them stadles too thick, will run to bushes and briars. Bacon. To STADLE. v. a. [from the noun.] To fur nifh with ftadles. See it well fadled without and within. Tuffer. STADSBERG, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, on the borders of Waldeck, on the Dimel; 8 miles ENE. of Brilon, and 20 S. of Paderborn. It was taken by the Swedes, in 1645; and its fortifications razed. (1.) * STADTHOLDER. n. f. [ stadt and bouden, Dutch.] The Chief magiftrate of the United Provinces. (2.) STADT HOLDER. This office was abolished by the French and Dutch republicans, in 1795; and as there is no probability that it will ever be restored, either by the Dutch or the French, we need not take up room with an account of it. For its inftitution, in favour of William I. fee UNITED PROVINCES. STADTHOLDERATE, . . the office and dignity of STADTHOLDER. STÆHELINA, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of fyngenesia, and order of polygamia aqualis; and in the natural fyftem arranged under the 49th order, Compofita. The receptacle is paleaceous, the chaff being very fort; the pappus is branchy, and the antheræ caudated. There are 8 fpecies; viz. 1. STÆHELINA ARBORESCENS; 2. CHAMAPEUCE; 3. CORYMBOSA; 4. DUBIA; 5. FRUTICOSA; 6. GNAPHALOIDES; 7. ILICIFOLIA; and, 8. IMBRICATA. STAFARDA, a town of the French empire, in the dep. of the Po, and ci-devant marquifate of Saluzzo; feated on the Po, with an abbey, formerly very rich. In 1690, the duke of Savoy was defeated near it by the marquis de Catinat. It is 3 miles N. of Saluzzo. Lon. 7. 25. E. Lat. 44. 34. N. (1.) * STAFF. n. f. plur. ftaves. [staef, Saxon; Aeff, Danifh; staf, Dutch.] r. A ftick with which a man fupports himfelf in walking. That of his fortunes you would make a staff To lean upon. Shak. Antony and Cleopatra. That thy rod as well as thy staff may comfort us. K. Charles.--Is it probable that he, who had met whole armies in battle, fhould now throw away his staff, out of fear of a dog. Broome. 2. A prop; a fupport. Hope is a lover's flaff. Shak. The boy was the very staff of my age. Shak. -If a fubject be a fon, then ought he to be a staff unto his father. Holyday. 3. A ftick ufed as a weapon; a club; the handle of an edged or pointed weapon. A club properly includes the notion of weight, and the staff of length. STADIUS, John, a learned mathematician, born at Loenhout, near Antwerp, in 1527. He became profeffer of history at Louvain, and afterwards of mathematics and hiftory at Paris; where he died in 1579. He published, 1. Ephemerides: Cologne, 1556 and 1570. 2. Tabula Equabilis et apparentis motus cæleftium corporum: 3. Commenta-He that bought the skin had the worfe end of rius in Lucium Florum. * STADLE. n. f. [ftadel, Saxon, a foundation.] 1. Any thing which ferves for fupport to another. 2. A ftaff; a crutch. Obfolete. Aged limbs on cyprefs fadle ftout. Spenfer. 3. A tree suffered to grow for coarse and common I cannot ftrike at wretched kernes, whofe arms Are hir'd to bear their faves. Shak. the flaff. L'Etrange. With forks and faves the felon they purfue. 4. Any long piece of wood. He forthwith from the glitt'ring staff unfurl'd Th' imperial enfign. Milton. A forky A forky staff we dext'rously apply'd. Addif. 5. Round or ftep of a ladder.-1 afcended at one of 639 faves, or 89 fathoms. Brown. 6. An en fign of an office; a badge of authority.Methought this ftaff, mine office-badge in court, Was broke in twain. Shak. -All his officers brake their faves; but at their return new faves were delivered unto them. Hayaward. 7. [Stef, Islandick.] A ftanza; a series of verfes regularly difpofed, fo as that, when the feries concluded, the fame order begins again. Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroick poem. Dryden.— He beat him with a staff of his own ode. Harte. (2.) STAFF, in mufic, five lines, on which, with the intermediate fpaces, the notes of a fong or piece of mufic are marked. (3.) STAFF, in naval affairs, is a light pole erected in different parts of a ship, whereon to hoift and difplay the colours. The principal of these is reared immediately over the ftern, to difplay the enfign; another is fixed on the bowsprit, to extend the jack; 3 more are erected at the 3 maft heads, or formed by their upper ends, to fhow the flag or pendant of the refpective fquadron or divifion to which the ship is appropriated. See ExSIGN, JACK, MAST, and PENDANT. (4.) STAFF, in military matters, confifts of a quarter-mafter-general, adjutant-general, and majors of brigade. The staff properly exifts only in time of war. See QUARTER-MASTER GENERAL, &c. (5.) STAFF, FORE. See FOR E-STAFF. (6.) STAFF OFFICERS. See § 4 & 7; and OFFICER, 10. (7.) STAFF, REGIMENTAL, confifts in the adjutant, quarter-master, chaplain, furgeon, &c. STAFFA, one of the Weftern Ilands of Scotland, remarkable for its bafaltic pillars. It was vifited by Sir Jofeph Banks, who communicated the following account of it to Mr Pennant. Staffa lies 15 miles W. of Mu!!, and 9 NE. of Icolumbkill: "Its greateft length is about an Englith mile, and its breadth about half a one. On the W. fide of the island is a small bay where boats generally land; a little to the S. of which the first appear. ance of pillars are to be observed: they are small; and instead of being placed upright, lie down on their fides, each forming a fegment of a circle. From thence you pass a small cave, above which the pillars, now larger, incline in all directions: in one place in particular, a fmali mafs of them very much refembles the ribs of a hip. From hence having paffed the cave, which, if it is not low water, you must do in a boat, you come to the firft ranges of pillars, which are still not above half as large as thofe a little beyond. Over against this place is a fmall ifland, called in Erfe Boo-ha-la, feparated from the main by a channel not many fathoms wide. This whole island is compofed of pillars without any ftratum above them; they are ftill small, but by much the neateft formed of any about the place. The first divifion of the ifland, for at high water it is divided into two, makes a kind of a cone, the pillars converging together to wards the centre: on the other they are in general laid down flat: and in the front next to the main, you fee how beautifully they are packed to- Height of the arch at the mouth, Height of an outfide pillar, Feet. In. 250 O 53 7 20 o 117 79 о 39 54 O 18 The cave runs into the rock in the direction of NE. by E. by the compafs. Proceeding farther to the NW. you meet with the highest ranges of pillars; the magnificent appearance of which is paft all defcription. Here they are bare to their very basis, and the ftratum below them is also vifib'e: in a fhort time, it rites many feet above the water, and gives an opportunity of examining its quality. Its furface is rough, and has often large lumps of ftene flicking in it as if half immerfed: itself, when broken, is composed of a thousand heterogeneous parts, which together have very much the appearance of a lava: and the more fo, as many of the lumps appear to be of the very fame ftone of which the pillars are formed. This whole ftratum lies in an inclined pofition, dipping gradually towards the SE. As hereabouts is the fituation of the highest pillars, I shall mention my measurements of them, and the different ftrata in is of a dark brown stone, and no signs of regulari. ty occur till you have palled round the SE. end of the island (a space alinoft as large as that occu pied by the pillars,) which you meet again on the weft fide, beginning to form themselves irregular ly, as if the ftratum had an inclination to that form, and foon arrive at the bending pillars where I began. The ftone of which the pillars are formbling the Giant's Caufeway in Ireland, though none of them are near to neat as the fpecimens of the latter which I have feen at the British Mufcum ; owing chiefly to the colour, which in ours is a dirty brown, in the Irith a fine black; indeed the whole production seems very much to resemble the Giant's Caufeway." this place, premifing, that the meafirements were made with a line, held in the hand of a perfon who food at the top of the cliff, and reaching to the bottom; to the lower end of which was tied white mark, which was observed by one who faid below for the purpose: when this mark was fet off from the water, the perfon below noted it down, and made a fignal to him above, who made then a mark in his rope: whenever this mark pased, is a coarfe kind of bafaltes, very mach refemfed a notable place, the fame fignal was made, and the name of the place noted down as before: the line being all hauled up, and the distances between the marks measured and noted down, gave, when compared with the book kept below, the diftances, as for inftance in the cave: N° 1. in the book below, was called from the water to the foot of the firft pillar in the book above; no 1. gave 36 feet % inches, the higheft of that afcent which was compofed of broken pillars. Feet. In. N1. Pilar at the W. corner of Fingal's cave. T From the water to the foot of the pillar, 12 TO 2 Height of the pillar, 37 3 3 Stratum above the pillar, N° 2. Fingal's cave. 66 1 From the water to the foot of the pillar, 36 2 H.ight of the pillar, 3 From the top of the pillar to the top of 4 Thickness of the ftratum above, 9 8 39 6 31 4 * STAFFISH. adj. [from faf. Stiff; harfh. Obfolete. A wit in youth not over dull, but hard, tough, and though fomewhat staffifh, proveth always belt. fcham. STAFFOLO, a town of the Italian kingdom, in the dep. of the Upper Po, district and late territory of Cremona; feated near the Po. STAFFORA, a river of the Italian kingdom, in the dep. of Olona, district and late duchy of Pavia. It paffes Voghera and falls into the Po, 8 miles WSW. of Pavia. (1.) STAFFORD, the county town of STAF4 FORDSHIRE. It ftands on the Sow, has two parifh-churches, a fine fquare market-place, and a Hourishing cloth-manufacture. It fends two mem117 6 bers to parliament, and is 135 miles NW. of London, and 41 NW. of Litchfield. Len. 2. o. W. Lat. 53. 0. N. N° 3. Corner pillar W. of Fingal's cave. Stratum below the pillar of lava-like matter, TI Length of pillar, 54 Stratum above the pillar, 61 900 6 (2.) STAFFORD, a township of Connecticut, in Toland county, on the S. line of Maflachufetts; 14 miles NE. of Toland, and ro E. of Holland. (3.) STAFFORD, a town of Pennsylvania; 25 o miles NNW. of Philadelphia. I 51 I 19 55 54 8 1 7 The stratum above the pillars, which is here menioned, is uniformly the fame, confifting of numbetlefs fmall pillars, bending and inclining in all directions, fometimes fo irregularly that the ftones can only be faid to have an inclination to affume a columnar form; in others more regular, but neer breaking into or difturbing the ftratum of arge pillars, whose tops everywhere keep an uniform and regular line. Proceeding now along the Store round the N. end of the island, you arrive at Qua na fearve, or the Corvorant's Cave. Here the ftratum under the pillars is lifted up very high; the pillars above it are confiderably lefs than thofe at the NW. end of the ifland, but ftill very contiderable. Beyond is a bay, which cuts deep into the island, rendering it in that place not more than a quarter of a mile over. On the fides of this hay, especially beyond a little valley, which almoft cuts the illand into two, are two ftages of pullars, but small; however, having a ftratum between them exactly the fame as that above them, Formed of innumerable little pillars, fhaken out of tir places, and leaning in all directions. Having paffed this bay, the pillars totally ceafe; the rock (4.) STAFFORD, a county of Virginia, 25 miles long, and zo broad: bounded on the N. by Prince William county, E. by the Potomac, S. by K. George and Spotfylvania, W. by Culpepper, and NW. by Faquier. In 1795, it contamed 5,552 citizens and 4,036 flaves. It has a court-house, and regular monthly courts, &c. (5.) STAFFORD, New, a township of New Jer fey, in Monmouth county, adjoining Dover on the W. In 1795, it contained 883 citizens. It abounds with pines. (6.) STAFFORD, or a county of England, STAFFORDSHIRE, ) bounded on the N. by Cheshire and Derbyshire, E. by Warwickshire and Derbyshire, S. by Worcestershire, and W. by Shropshire and Cheshire. The length is 62 miles, the breadth 33, and the circumference 180. It contains 5 hundreds, 150 parishes, 810,000 acres, and 18 market-towns. The rent is estimated at L 600,000 a-year. The air, except in the Moorlands and Woodlan's, and about the mines, is good, efpecially upon the hills, where it is accounted very fine. The foil in the northern mountainous parts is not fertile; but in the middle, where it is watered by the Trent, the third river in England, it is both fruitful and pleafant, being a mixture of arable and meadow grounds. In the S. it abounds with corn, and with mines of iron and coal. The principal rivers, are the Trent, which runs almoft through the middle of it, and abounds with falmon, the Dove and Tame, which are all well stored with fifh. In this county are alfo many lakes, as they are called; which have Kreams either running into them or from them, and yield plenty of tith. There are alfo medici. nal waters, impregnated with different forts of minerals, at Hints and Brefsford-houfe, which are mixed with bitumen; and at Ingeftre, Codfalwood, and Willough-bridge park, which are fulphureous. Of the faline kind are the Brine-pits at Chertley, Epfom, Penfuet-clofe, of which very good falt is made. There is a well at Newcastle-under-Line that is faid to cure the king's evil; another called Elder-well, near Blemhiil, good for fore eyes; and the Spa, near Wolverhampton. Great flocks of theep are bred in this county, especially in the moorlands, or mountains of the northern part of it; but the wool is coarier than that of many other counties. Of this wool, however, they make a variety of manufactures, particularly felts. In low grounds along the rivers are rich paftures for black cattle; and vast quantities of butter and cheese are inade. In the middle and fouthern parts not only grain of all kinds, but a great deal of hemp and Hax are railed. This county produces alf lead, copper, iron; marble, atabafter, millitones, limeftone; coal, falt, and marles of feveral forts and colours; brick-earth, fullers earth, and potters-clay, (of which SrONE, WARES are made,) particularly a fort ufed in the glass manufacture at Amblecot, and fold at feven-pence a buthel; tobacco pipe-clay; a fort of reddish earth called flip ufed in painting divers vellels; red and yellow ochres; fire-ftones for hearths of iron furnaees, ovens, &c. ; iron ftones of feveral forts; blood ftones, or hæmatites, found in the brook Tent, which, when wet a little, will draw red lines like ruddle; quarry-flones, and grind ftones. For fuel the county is well fupplied with turf, peat, and coal of several forts, as cannel-coal, peacock-coal, and pit-coal. › The peacock coal is to called, becaufe, when turned to the light, it difplays all the colours of the peacock's tail; but it is fitter for the forge than the kitchen. Of the pit coal there is an inexhaustible ftore; it burns into white afhes, and leaves no fuch cinder as that of the Newcaftle coal. It is not used for malting til it is char red, and in that ftate it takes admirable winter fuel for a chamber. This county is in the diocefe of Litchfield and Coventry, and the Oxford circuit. It fends ten members to parliament; viz. 2 each, for the courty, Litchfield, Stafford, Newcastle-under Line, and Tamworth. By the report prefent ed to Parliament, on June 26, 1801, it contained 46,001 houses; 120 408 males; 124,443 femals; in all 244,851 fouls. (1.) * STAFFTREE. n.. A fort of ever green privet. (2.) STAFFTREE. See CELASTRUS. (1.) * STAG. n. f. [Qf this word I find no derivation.] The male red deer; the male of thẹ, hind. To the place a poor fequeftered flag. Did come to languish. Shak. As you like it. The fwift fag from under ground Bore up his branching head. Milton. Fish on thore, and flags in air shall range. Dryd. The flag Hears his own feet, and thinks they found hig more, And fears his hind legs will o'ertake his fore. Pope. (2.) STAG, in zoology. See CERVUS, I. N° VL STAG-BETLE. See LUCANUS, N° 2. Ben J. (:.) STAGE. n. f. [eslage, Fr.] 1. A floor railed to view on which any how is exhibited; raifed floor of temporary ufe. 2. The theatre, the place of feenick entertainments.— Safe in your stage clothes, Dare quit, upon your oaths, The ftagers and the age wrights too. -Now up, now down, as if the life of man were not of much more certainty than a ftage play. Knolles. maintain against the enemies of the age, that patterns of picty, decently reprefented, may fecord the precepts. Dryden.-One Livius Andronicus was the first flage player in Rome. Dryden.-Knights, fquires, and feeds must enter on the flage. Pope. 3. Any place where any thing is publickly tranfacted or performed.- When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great ftage of fools. Shak. King Lear. 4. A place in which rett is taken on a journey; as much of a journey as is performed without intermillion. [Statio, Latin.)-I thail put you in mind where you promifed to begin your first stage. Hummond.-Our next stage brought us to the mouth of the Tiber. Addison. She makes the head her latest stage. Prior. -We must not expect that our journey through the feveral stages of this life fhould be all fmooth. Atterbury. By opening a paflage from Muscovy to China, and marking the feveral stages, it was a journey of fo many days. Baker Men drop fo faft, ere life's mid fiage we tread, Few know fo many friends alive, as dead. Young. 5. A fingle ftep of gradual procefs.-The changes and viciflitude in wars are many; but chiefly in the feats or flages of the war. Bacon. This is by fome called the firft ftage of a confumption. Blackmore.-Perfection by gradual advances thro feveral hard and laborious stages of difcipline. Rogers.-The first stage of healing, is by furgeons called digeftion. Sharp. (2.) The STAGE, in the modern drama, is the place of action and reprefentation included between the pit and the scenes, and answering to the profcenium or PULPITUM of the ancients. See AMPHITHEATRE, and THEATRE. * TO STAGE. v. a. [from the noun.] To exhi bit publickly. Out of ufe. I love the people; But do not like to flage me to their eyes. Shak. STAGECOACH. n. f. stage and coach.] A coach that keeps its fages; a coach that palles and repaffes on certain days for the accommodation of pallengers.The story was told me by a prieft, as we travelled in a stagecoach. Addison.— Their miry fides ftagecoaches show. Gay. *STAGEPLAY. . f. {ftage and play.] Theatri cal entertainment. This rough caft unhewn poery was inftead of fageplays for 120 years. Dryd. STAGEPLAYER... One who publickly re prefents prefents actions on the ftage.-Among flaves, who phipolis; founded A. A. C. 665. It is famous for exercised polite arts, none fold fo dear as ftageplay- being the birth place of Ariftotle. It is now callers or actors. Arbuthnot. ed Lyba Nova, and lies 16 miles from Conteifa. Lon. 22. 46. E. Lat. 41. 15. . N. *STAGER. n. f. [from stage.] 1. A player. The Stagers and the ftage wrights too. Ben J. 2. One who has long acted on the ftage of life; a practitioner; a perfon of cunning. Hudibras. baffled 20 the plot. I've heard old cunning fagers Say, fools for argument ufe wagers. --One experienced Rager, that had traps and tricks before difcovered L'Eftrange. Some fagers of the wiser sort Made all these idle wonderments their sport. STAGEVIL. n. f. A difeafe in horfes. Dia. * STAGGARD. n. f. [from ftag.] A four year old ftag. Ainfw. (1.) * To STAGGER. v. n. [staggeren, Dutch.] 1. To reel; not to stand or walk teadily.-He began to appear fick and giddy, and to stagger. Bogle.He fagger'd with the blow. Dryden. By giddy heads and faggering legs betray'd. Tate. -The immediate forerunners of an apoplexy are a vertigo, staggering, and lofs of memory. Arbuth. 2. To faint; to begin to give way.-The enemy flaggers. Addifon. 3. To hefitate; to fall into doubt; to become less confident or determined.-A man may, if he were fearful, fagger in this attempt. Shak-He faggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. Rom. iv. 20.-Belief upon reason, or experience, will flagger. Bacon. So their flagg'ring thoughts are comforted. Davies. -If thou confidently depend on the truth of this, without any doubting or staggering, this will be accepted by God. Hammond. Falfhood fhall want its triumph: I begin To stagger; but I'll prop myfelf within. Dryd. (2.) To STAGGER. v. a. 1. To make to stagger; to make to reel. That hand fhall burn in never-quenching fire, That faggers thus my perfon. Shak. 2. To fhock; to alarm; to make lefs fteady or confident. The question did at first fo flagger me. Shak. -Whofoever will read the story of this war, will find himself much staggered. Howel.-When a prince fails in honour and juftice, 'tis enough to stagger his people in their allegiance. L'Etrange. -It was enough to flagger a spectator. Woodward. (1.) * STAGGERS. n.. [from the verb.] 1. A kind of horfe apoplexy.-His horse stark spoil'd with the ftaggers. Shak. 2. Madness; wild conduct; irregular behaviour. Out of ufe. I will throw thee from my care for ever Into the staggers. Shok. (2.) STAGGERS. See FARRIERY, Part III. Se&.X. STAGIRA, in ancient geography, a town on the borders of Macedonia, near the bay of Conteffa, into which the Strymon runs, at the S. of Am STAGIRITE, a native of STAGIRA; an epithet very generally given to ARISTOTLE, by both ancient and modern authors. * STAGNANCY. n. f. [from flagnant.] The ftate of being without motion or ventilation. STAGNANT. adj. [ftagnans, Lat.] Motionlefs; ftill; not agitated; not flowing; not run * T% STAGNATE. v. n. [[tagnum, Lat.] To lye motionless; to have no course or stream.-The water which now arifes must have ali ftagnated at the furface. Woodav.-The aliment moving through the capiliary tubes flagnates. Arbuthnot.— Where creeping waters ooze, Where marshes ftagnate. Thomson. * STAGNATION. n. f. [from fagnate.] Stop of course; cellation of motion. It is often applied figuratively to moral or civil images.-There would be a conftant stagnation of vapours, did not the north wind fcatter them from time to time. Addifon. This from Alagnation and corruption faves Th' aerial ocean's ever-rolling waves. Blackm. STAGNO, a town of Dalmatia, in the republic of Ragufa, on a peninfula in the Adriatic; 30 miles NW. of Ragufa. Lon. 17. 50. E. Lat. 48. II. N. STAHL, George Erneft, an eminent German chemift, born in Franconia in 1660, and chosen profeffor of medicine at Hall, when a univerfity was founded in that city in 1694. The excellency of his lectures while he filled that chair, the importance of his various publications, and his extenfive practice, foon raised his reputation very high. He received an invitation to Berlin in 1716, which having accepted, he was made counsellor of ftate and phyfician to the king. He died in 1734, in the 75th year of his age. Stahl is without doubt one of the greatest men of which the annals of medicine can boast; his name marks the commencement of a new era in chemistry. He was the author of the doctrine of phlogiston, which, though now completely overturned by the difcoveries of Lavoifier and others, (See CHEMISTRY, Index, and PHLOGISTON.) was not without its ufe; as it ferved to combine the scattered fragments of former chemists into a system, and as it gave rife to more accurate experiments and a more fcientific view of the fubject, to which many of the fubfequent discoveries were owing. This theory maintained its ground for more than half a century, and was received and supported by fome of the most eminent men which Europe has produced; a fufficient proof of the ingenuity and the abilities of its author. He was the author also of Theory of Medicine, founded upon the notions, |