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Its origin is derived from the vicious quality of the country water:;, impregnate with corrofive muriatic falts, the fourcc of molt other difeafes that infect the Malabarians. Its figns, or fymptoms, are an eryfipelas of the fcrotum, returning every new moon, by which the lymphatics being eroded, pour a ferous faline humour into the cavity of the fcrotum. The Andrum is incureable ; thofe once feized with it, have it for life j but it is not dangerous, nor very troublesome^ to thofe ufed to it ; though fometimes it degenerates into a hy- drofarcocele.

The means of prevention is by a heap of fand fetched from a river of the province Mangatti, and ftrowed in the wells. This is practifed by the rich. As to the cure, they have only a palliative one, which is by incifion, or tapping and drawing off" the water from the fcrotum, once in a month or two. Kempf. Amam. Exot. fafc. 3. obf. 7. ANDRYGALA, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which are thefc. The common cup is fhort, round, and hairy, and is divided into a great number of equal and fubulated fegments. The flower is of the compound kind, and is imbricated and uniform, being compofed of a great number of equal fmall flowers, or corollulre. Each of thefc confifts of one petal, and is ligulated, narrow, truncated, and divided into five fqgments at the edge. The ftamina are five very fhort and capillary filaments. The anthers are of a cylindric figure, and tubular. The gcrmen ftands under the flower, and is fmall ; the ftyle is capillary, and of the length of the ftamina ; and the ftigmata are two in number, and are reflex. The cup, when the flower is fallen, ferves as a feed- veflel ; it clofes at the top, and becomes of a globular figure. The feeds are fingle ; they are of an oval figure, and are crowned with a fingle down, of the length of the cup. The receptacle is hairy, and of a flat figure. Linneci, Gen. Plant. P- 376- ANECDOTES (Cycl.) — Procopius's Anecdota have been at- tacked exprefly by Rivius, Bonifacius, and Eichelius \ and their fidelity defended by Alcmannus \ Pafchius ranks them in the number of fatires, written with no other defign, but by lies forged againft the emperor, to render the court of that good prince odious to pofterity b. — [ a Budd. Ifag. ad Theol. 1. 1. c. 4. p. 180. b. b Jour, des Scav. T. 42. p. 379.] Some authors have doubted, whether the work were really Procopius's. Suidas, 'tis certain, afcribes it to him ; but neither Agathias, Photius, nor any writer before Suidas, make any mention of it. What chiefly fupports the doubt is, that the fame Procopius, in his other hiftory, extols Juftinian to the Ikies ; yet the critics generally allow the work to be genuine. The inference then is, either that Procopius muff. have been an arrant flatterer, or an abominable flanderer. What dependance then can be had on the faith of hiftory, when hiftorians are found to prevaricate fo horribly c 1 Per- haps it may be of fome fervice to Procopius, to take the book of Anecdotes in the light wherein Nicephorus put it d, when he calls it, with propriety enough, a retractation of what he had fatd in praife of Juftinian, and, as it were, a palinody of what he had fpoken wrong. — [ c Vid. Fabric. Bibl. Grsec. T. 6. 1. 5. c. 5. p. 255. feq. d Niccph. 1. 8- C. 10.] 'Tis certain, however, Procopius was not the inventor of this kind of compofitions. Cicero makes mention of his own Anecdotes, long before that hiftorian's time ; nor was Cicero the firft; for he owns he only imitated Theopompus. Vid. Fabric. Bibl. Giasc. T. 1. p. 146. See alfo Cicero, ad, Attic. 1. 2. Ep. 6. and ibid. 1. 14. Ep. 17.

Among the moderns, befides Varillas c, Alerac f has pub- lished Anecdotes of Poland ; Valdory s, Anecdotes of the miniftry of the cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin ; Mad. de Gomez, Perfian Antedates h. — [ e Anecdotes de Florence, ou l'Hiftoire fecrete de la Maifon de Medicis, Hay. 1685. i2mo. Extracts of it are given in Jour, des Scav. T. 13. p. 329. Nouv. Rep. Lett. T. 4. p. 459. f Les Anecdotes de Pologne, &c Par. 1699. i2mo. A critique is given of this work, in two letters printed in Nouv. Liter. T. 8. p. 257. & 293. « Anec- dotes du Miniftre du Cardinal Richelieu, & du Regne du Louis XIII. tires du Mercurio Siri, Par. 1717. i2mo. 2vol. An extract of it is given in Nouv. Rep. Lett. T. 56. p. 96. h Anecdotes Perfannes, Amft. 1729. 2 vol. nmo. See an account of them in Jour. Liter. T. 14. p. 206. 1 The title, in effect, has fomewhat in it alluring. It promifes to gratify our love of novelty, and of fcandal into the bargain ; which has induced authors to make ufe of it without much propriety. Thus it has been objected to the Anecdotes of Po- land, that abating about a dozen circumftances, not mentioned by former writers, the work has little prctenfions to the title of Anecdotes. Inftcad of this, fome have charged it with being a plagiarifm from the Memoirs of Chevalier Beaujeu. For the Perfian Anecdotes, they are a romance, to all purpofes. Thofe of Varillas, are but one degree removed from being the fame. Nouv. Liter. T. 8. p. 258. ANEE, in commerce, denotes a corn meafure, ufed in fome provinces of France. It is otherwife called A/nee.

The Anee is not fo properly a meafure, as a denomination, or afTemblage of a certain number of other meafures.

Tlie Anee at Lyons confifts of fix bicbets, equal to one feptier and three bufhels, Paris meafure. At Macon, the Anee is fomewhat more. Savar. Diet. Comm. in voc.

Anee is alfo ufed for a quantity of wine, fuppofed to be an afs's load ; and is fixed to eighty pots.

ANEMOMACHIA, Am^^k*, in fome antient writers, de- notes a whirlwind, or hurricane. Du Canpe, Gloff. Grasc. T. 1: p. 76.

In which fenfe, we forrietimes alfo meet with Aneinozahi A*^*o£«M; Ancmotaraxis, A^cVgatur, &c.

ANEMOMETER (Cycl.)— It is objected to the Anemometer mentioned in the Cyclopedia, from Wolfius, that it requires a confiderable wind to make it work. Leutmannus has con- trived another, wherein the fails are horizontal, and are more eafily driven about, and will turn what way foever the wind blows. Vid. Act. Erud. Lipf ; 1726. p. 125. See Wind.

ANEMONE, wind-flower, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which are theft. The flower is of the rofaceous kind, being compofed of feveral petals, arranged in a circular form. From the center of the flower there arifes apiftil, which finally becomes an oblong fruit, to the axis of which there adhere a number of feeds, which are ufually co- vered with a downy hood. To this it may be added, that the ftalks of the Anemone are ufually naked, except in one part, from whence there ufually grow three leaves. The fpecies of Anemone, enumerated by Mr. Tournefort, are thefe.

1. The yellow, broad-leaved garden Anemone, with leaves like thofe of fow-bread, or of mallows. 2. The broader- leaved, yellow garden Anemone, with double flowers. 3. The broad- leaved Anemone, with flowers yellow within, and red or violet coloured on the outfide. 4. The broad-leaved garden Anemone, with fingle perfectly white flowers. 5. The broad- leaved, white garden Anemone, with a double or triple feries of petals. 6. The broad-leaved garden Anemone, with flowers white within, and purple or violet coloured on the outfide. 7. The double broad-leaved garden Anemone, with flowers variegated with white and violet colour. 8. The broad-leaved peacock Anemone, with fcarlet flowers. 9. The broad-leaved, proliferous, fcarlet-flowered peacock Anemone. 10. The broad-leaved peacock Anemone, ufually very luxuriant in leaves, and very rarely flowering. 11. The many-leaved peacock Atmnone, with bright red flowers. 12. The double broad- leaved rofe Anemone, with flowers of the colour of the peach bloflbms. 13. The largeft broad-leaved, changeable- coloured Anemone. 14. The great broad-leaved Anemone, with leaves variegated with purple and white. 15. The great Anemone y with green flowers variegated with purple and bright red. 16. The broad-leaved, double violet Anemone, xj. The broad-leaved Anemone, with velvety-brown leaves at the edges, green clufters of leaves within, and a blackiih purple tuft in the center. 18. The broad-leaved, fingle, pale, faffron- coloured Anemone, with red ftreaks^ called by many the leflet peacock Anemone. 19. The purple Anemone, with the roundifh, cranes-bill leaf. 20. The roundifh, cranes-bill- leaved Anemone, with very pale purple flowers. 21. The broad-leaved Anemone, with fingle flefh-coloured flowers. 22. The broad-leaved Anemone, with fingle deep purple flowers. 23. The broad-leaved Anemone, with violet purple flowers. 24. The double violet purple, broad-leaved Ane- mone. 25. The violet- coloured, broad-leaved Anemone. lb. The broad-leaved Anemone, with deeper violet-coloured flowers. 27. The broad-leaved Anemone, with ftreaky flowers. 28. The broad-leaved Anemone, with fpotted flowers ;

29. The broad-leaved Anemone, with fleih-coloured flowers;

30. The fanicle-leaved Anemone. 31. The broad leaved Ane- mone, with orange-coloured flowers. 32. The broad-leaved Anemone, with fcarlet flowers. 33. The broad-leaved Ane- ?none, with very large fcarlet flowers; 34. The broad-leaved Anemone, with purplifh fcarlet flowers. 35. The great white wood Anemone. 36. The fmaller white wood Anejnone. 37. The tall Virginian wood Anemone. 38. The blue- flowered, narrow-leaved garden Anemone. 39; The narrow- leaved garden Anemone, with double flefh-coloured flowers. 40. The drop wort- leaved garden Anemone^ with a fix-leaved violet- coloured flower. 41. The fine-leaved garden Ane- mone, with pale crimfon flowers. 42. The fine-leaved gar- den Anemone^ with a fix-leaved fcarlet flower. 43. The fine- leaved garden Anemone, with an eight-leaved crimfon flower. 44. The fine-leaved garden Anemone, with a large fix-leaved crimfon flower. 45. The finely divided-leaved garden Ane- mone, with a blood-coloured flower. 46. The fine-leaved garden Anemone, with blood-coloured flowers, with white bottoms. 47. The fine-leaved garden Anemone, with a paler blood- coloured flower. 48. The fine-leaved garden Anemone % with a large fix-leaved blood-coloured flower. 49. The fine- leaved garden Anemone, with large blackifh-red flowers.

50. The fine-leaved garden Anemone, with deep red flowers^

51. The fine-leaved garden Anemone, with fnow-white flowers. 52. The fine-leaved garden Anemone, with large white flowers. 5^. The large white- flowered, cretic garden Anemone. 54. The common, fingle, white-flowered garden Anemone. 55. The fine-leaved garden Anemons > with large

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