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ELL

Elixir 'Profrietatis, is a Remedy fiofl invented by ELL (7/»* a Meafii*., u- • 1.

fracelfits It is compofed of Aloes, Myrrh, and Saffron? De=tfe iK^ S^M™ "^ ^'"^

the Tuiflurc, or Effcnce whereof, is drawn by puffins; them n »,„ • 1.0 J-'"""'-""- oee Measure

to diffolve, or dieeft with Spirit of SulohuV TL ,M, T >? U 1S the S. tanda J d > « Mcafur,

to diffolve, or digeft with Spirit of Sulphur. Some add Stuffi fLV^uf^' "" ^S"*' vhmh Y Cloths, to the Spirit of Sulphur/ ^ L ™™> S' 11 ' Zt?\„ S^ ™ a ^' d, or effil

Spirit of Wine to the Spirit of Sulphur.

Crollius takes this Elixir to be the Balm, or Balfam of the Antients; adding, that it contains all the Virtues of the Natural Balm. It comforts and fortifies the Heart and Stomach, aflifts Digeftion, purifies the Blood, and pro- motes Sweat.

Elixir, among the Alchymifts, is ufed for the Philo- fopher's Stone, or the 'Powder of ProjeSion; and fome- times for an Univerfal Medicine, which ftiall cure all Difeafes, called by Way of Excellence the Grand Elixir.

Tlipfp. twr. Tl,;™. ™„/l A,_l ■<!. . .) • -1

mated; anfwering, in good Meafure, to the xlri of England the Cmna of Italy, the Vane of span the 'Palm of Sicily, Sec. See Yard. £ '

Servim will have the Ell to be the Space contain'd between the two Hands when flretch'd forth : But Suetonius maxes it no more than a Cubit. See Cubit.

The Ells which occur mod frequently in England, are En&lf and Flemijl, : The Ell Enghjh contains three Foot

The Flit/ °» ° ne Tard ° ne Q - U ' U ' ter ^S* Meari,re =

VSTy ~—'-""l ""> "' oiju-cucute rue wjjj aixir. T, F „ " ' "." "" c Jar « ""= v^ua.rer Jinglip Mealure

There two Things, moll Alchymifts take to coincide; i ,~" rletnifi, ZJ Inches, or three Quarters of a Yard •

fo that what will make Gold, will cure all Difeafes. See? at the Bu Euglif, is to the Flemijh Ell as five to

T3ut r.innou t: d c_ CV/11,0 three.

PhILOSOPHERS-c^OW.

The Notion of a Grand Elixir is of a long Handing. p „ ^-' card '. in his Treatife of Commerce, reduces the

Ktrcher allures us, that the antient Egyptians had a f ■ "" s :. An hundred Ells of Amjlerdam, are equal

Method of drawing an Elixir from the hardeft and mod 1 m ffl ei g ht. three Quarters, of -Brabant, Antwerp

"■■bflances; which, on Account of its Subtilty and p"'-" ' T t0 ™ l J ei g ht a "d an half of England

they call'd Heaven. And this he takes to be y ance:. lo an hundred and twenty of Hambourg. Fr„,.„

fe£^ an i Co ^' An Hundred twenty five of

jrertection, -., ^j, itlJ, u jitwuc//. jmu wm uc Laj«:s to ue /■. r. v/ ~

that admirable, and ecleftial Water, capable of removing J £ •„?■>"> S „

all Difeafes; called alfo the Stone, and the Pbilofofher's ^ejiaw ■' An Hundred and ten of Bergen and T)ron-

Stone, as being drawn from precious Stones; and Tome- J"" m, : And an Hundred and feventeen of Stockholm.

times, by the Hermetical Denominations, Aqua Vit£, Measure.

Vegetable Seed of Nature, Solar Soul, SSc. Oed. jEgypt. ELLEBORE, a Medicinal Plant See Hellebore.

1lKS P cS™, in Pharmacy, a Drug, fuppofed to be m^^'dl^oZ^olTo^f ^ E^L^^

good againft the Efileffy; known in the Shops by the The Elliffis, to define it from it, pit! 1

Name of Ungula Alois. See Epilepsy. continued curve Line includirJ a c^ ',1 s a re ,S ular »

The Animal that yields it, call'd by the Latins, Alee, than broad, whe^^r? to fotats e^iv cSflL K

by the Germans, French, &c. Ellend; and by us 23* 5 the two Extremes of the : Wb -from wrLh r T,

is a w,ld Beafl found in the Fotefts of Mufcoly, Sweden, Lines being drawn to any Pott,' affumel, P lafur?,^

rarts y o7l:Ah b ir^. abundant,y inCaM ^ and moft i^A thdr suni L ^ - *« w^f%s

"Tis about the Size and Figure of a Mule; only its Thus, in the Elliffis AEBMD, (Sc. (Tab Coricks

Snout b,gger, its Ta.l fliort, its Feet cloven; and that it Fig.ll.) the Lines pf and fa drawn' fiom the n TO Pont

bears a large Ramage, or Horn like that of a Deer, F and f, equally dif.ant from the two Extremes A and B

weighing three, and fometimes four Hundred Weight. That are equal to A B. .Extremes a. and is,

anatomized in the Royal Academy of Sciences, was five Or, takino the FllihR, „, r„. • • r, ,

Foot feven Inches long. Its Hair is brown, and about the for the Spa?e confamf ' or Si, 1 d M f^l^X do '

Length of that of a Goat: Its Ears nine Inches Ion* Line • it i* jJ^T %■ lndudcd ,y th >" Ais Curve

and S four broad; and its Tail not above two nehes it oblone Line a,fd h ■ gUre ' """^ wda ° ne iin § le

Neck ftort and thick: Its Skin ftrong and hard! ' tho' A B f nd D E § ^^ A ™ " D ' am " e, ' S

thin; its Flefli very delicate, efpeciallv that of the Fe- Tk~ «*^.* n • r, ^.,

male': And the Ligaments of its Joints^xceeding flrong ■ J^S^S I ^^^l^ fjH ^J'.H °f ^ ^ Line fe "

which has occafionM fome Authors to fav that its Leos P 11 "I ■ ,?£*/ the FU '^ U A B > or of the S P ace

tad no Joints at all; and that?, was thi made hi ^ And^ hel-ff" r"' d '^?«*"?***, «

ready at Hiding on the Ice, to fave it felf from the of Telffi*/i7 D F - tifri^/^^^/j -^Sl*

Wolves. Ellipps L> h, the Conjugate, or /ccoh.^ /fo;j. The

It neither runs, nor bounds; but its trot is almoft equal fe Ax^ >* '" ffia "* ° th « at ri S ht An S'«.

to the fwifteft Running of a Deer. Tk» » „ „ a 1

'Panfamas fays, that the Male has Horns : And Cefar mii£i< L, I~! arc e ^ gl ' eat? fl Diametcrs of *e

that the Female" hath none : But we find that both hive! mSrf ' See Co: r T u?T T an £??* ° f oth " differe « ° ia -

The Hunting of the Elk, is one of the principal and S ^.!„ °7 D "™> Transverse, £?,, mofi agreeable Employments of the Savages of Canada, Accadie, &c. They chufe a Time when the Snow is on the Ground; in which the Beaft is apt to fink and Hick. When they have kill'd enough with their Fire Arms, to

is the Point C, wherein

The Centre of an Ellipsis, the two Axes intcrfect.

The two Points F and f, on the greater Axis, equally diflant from the Extremes thereof A and B, are call'd the Foci or Umbilici of the Elliffis; from which two

tealt tor leveral JJays; tney flea them, and lend the Skins y » 1 —»-'"'-< yj me j^hivjis; trom which tw(

to the French, who drefs it in Oil, like the Buffelo Skin. Z'T'ur A ° thc ^'^micrence of the Elliffis, as al See Chamois. rcad { ° h Jf'Zr' *™ CqU * 1 *° thc S reater Axis - s '« Focus,

Lhe Elliffis, confidcring it as a Conic Section, that

See Chamois.

The Savages likewife take care to cut off the left hind Foot of each Beaft; efpecially if it be a Female; the Hoof whereof is that applauded Remedy for the Falling Sicknefs.

Antient Authors tell us, that to catch the Elk, the

.niiiicm uuuwm .wi ua, lual lu Latcn rue j:fK, the t, f , a ■ r

Northern People watch the Occafion when he falls down „r i n rVi

nf the Enilepfv: which it freouentlv rln™. ar,d that thn, " e J3a,e JV U

id that they

of the Epilepfy; which it frequently does;

lay hold of it e're it can recover Strength ci

its left Foot in its Ear; which cures it immediately.

And hence it is, that the Notion of its Virtue, in the Cure of that Difeafe, had its Rife. The Germans call it Ellend, that is, Mifery, by Reafon of the Mifery it is redue'd to in falling fo often into the Epilepfy; tho' it has its Remedy always about it; which has given People reafon to fufpeft, that the Virtue attributed to it is fabulous.

as a Curve arifing from a Section of thc Cone, is beft de- nned from its Gcnefis, or the Manner of its Production thus : An Elliffis is a Curve Line, produced by cuttins; the Cone ABC (Fig. xt.) by a Plane, in fueh Manner, i% that theAx.s of theSeffion DE, meets with the Diameter

produced in F.

uiai nicy n, c. : •


 * sh to put r Ur > dehning ,t from one of its known Properties aft

liately. fu ™ d 5 c ™. m <fP is a Curve Line, wherein fne Square

of the Sem.-ordmate PM (Fig. „.j is to the Rectangle

Axis and P B j as the Parameter, to the

« D huS ' lf Jt B - a ' the ta »«« = b; P M = y - AP = *: Then will b : a : : T : ar-.v"-. Corifequently ay' = abx — hx\ See Conic SetTion.

Hence, s.y- = bx - bx' : a. That is, the Square of

uu.uu... — - — j -•; — i^v — u.*. . A. mat is, the square 01

Accordingly, Olaus Magnus fays, 'tis the outer Hoof of the Semi-ordmate, is equal to the Rectangle of the Para- the right Foot that the Elk puts in its Ear to cure the mcter into the Abfcifs; abating another Rectangle of the Epilepfy; which being impofliblc, it Ihould feem as if ' ame -abfcifs into a fourth proportional to the Axis, Pr- olans only fpoke of it by Way of fneer. rametcr and Abfcifs.

He adds, that the Blows it deals are fo ftrong, that with And hence the Word Ellipfis, which is form'd from the its hind Feet it will break the Trees like Mufhrooms; and Greek, U\u4n, ^Deficiency, a Denomination the antient -ith its fore Feet pierce the Hunters thro' and thro'. Greek Geometricians gave this Figure, by Reafon, among

Pomet gives us the Marks to diftinguifh the genuine other Properties, this is one, that' the Squares of the Or?

Iks Claws; but as their Virtue is very equivocal, not dinates arc lefs than, or defe&ive of the Rectangles under fay abfolutely falfe, there is no great Harm in being the Parameters and Abfciffcs,

Elks

to fay aMolutely falfe, there is no great Harm in being the Parameters and Abfciffcs deceiv'd : The Opinion alone may lerve for the Rea

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