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endeavours to diftend the Canals; and thus intercepted, at length, it forms, adapts, and fattens them, lb as to adhere in the fame manner as the former.

The Matter, Preparation, Application, Energy of Mo- tion, ftill remaining the fame; what from time to time is loft, is thus prefently reflored; and the Soli

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On the contrary, Hermannus, Homme Profeffor at £<•»&„, who has wrote expreily on it, fays that thofe of TmJ and Cey„» are excellent Sudorifics, and to bo rank'd among

Diuretic Medicines,

Nux Galla. See Galls

the greater the Lofs is, the more copious is the Supply : and laftly, that thofe Parts, firft. fpent in the Action of the Body, are the firft reftored.

Night.

iieis are, the Jus calls it bnbecaaas Octthrum.

ed, deftroy'd Others will have the NySahpia t0 be properly a Difeafi-

earer to their that prevents the feeing fay Day, not b. Night: which is*

" }\ C T r hC fe? J fe "W"™'" "I™ it in; and in which fenfe it s

The Word comes from the Greek ii\

NYCTALOPIA, or N,S«rm Uchas, a Difeafe of the

r i E y es > wh,ch Parents their feeing, when the Sun i* r..

Further, tis evident that the newer, the more tender, and the Light begins to diminish See El, J™„ '

and the nearer the moving Caufe thefe Veffels are, the fit calls it Imbecility Omlmm. more eafily will they be lengthen'd, diftended, deftroy'd and repair'd : Our Bodies, therefore, the nearer t Origin, the more do they grow. For, the Actic

tinuing the greater Veffels become more extended by fuppos'd owing to the Spirits "beinp too "mnrh'Ttr. " 1

their Fluid; and at the fame time the fmaller, whereof in the Day, but collected if ™toht 8 Se Sk bt *""* the Membranes or Coats of the larger are compofed, are However, in the general, any Difeafe which prevents the

comprefsd dried and at Ufl concreted, and grow up; feeing at any particular time, when others fee "seal I'd

whence anfes a Firmnefs, indeed, of the Fibres, but a NyBalopitt. ' d

Lofs of the Veficles BkmGww fays, the NytlaUfi* confifts in this that the

Thus what were formerly Veffels, commence mere Uvea is immovable, and at the fame time very o P e, hard Ligaments; and thus the Fluids once fiVd the feve- The Word comes from the Greek n \ Nijr ZL Mm P

ral -Veffels coale fee: from the Concurrence of thefe Caufes Fox; this Animal beine faid to fAfl n T'

arife the Strength, Hardnefs, Rigidity, and Thicknefs of Night. S ^ b > D *? lhan

the folid Parts In the FhilofiphicalTranfaWons, we have an Inflance of

Hence, the Number of Veflels is greateft in Embryo's, a NySuhpia, othfturna cicitm, in a Youth of twe, y Tear.

T a l g u; C0 T eS f° n ' a V fT'' h " \ m, ihe " ce " « ° f ^ i «*° ^d been affected with it as lone » he could

that their Weaknefs conttantly declines, and their Strength remember. Dr. Farbam affures us, he had a ffi 1

and Firmnefs mcreafes. In young People, therefore, the Day, and diftinguifh'J Obiects at all Dittanies - Si

Quantity of Humours is redundant, and greatly exceeds the any body; but when Twilight once came, he

wiih what is actually obfervable in the Body, will find e- very Circumftance to obtain : Thus the whole Cuticula is every where, and at all times, conftantly defquammating, peeling off, and again renewing; and thus the Hair, Nails, Teeth, continually rubb'd, torn, and wore off, come again; Parts taken off from the Veffels, and the Bones, foon gtow again. And the Sordes, or Filth, rubb'd off from the Ex

m. gradual- ly on him like a Mift, as Day-light declined. He always faw alike in all Afpects of the Moon, felt no Pain by Fire or Candle-light, and was the fame in Summer as Winter Dt.M?J i accounts for the Cafe thus : " As Vapours are railed in great quantity during the Day-time; which be- " mg condenfed by the Coldnefs of the Evening fall a '' gain, and render the Air, near the Earth, the" thicker :

trero; ,es of the Veffels, when examm d by a Microfcope, « So, perhaps, the Humours in the Eyes of this YoutWv or fluted and view d in Water, appear plainly m confift «' be affected; and, in the Evening/rendred groff-r anl both of fo.d and fluid Parts; and thofe catry'd off by " more turbid. As we fee in Urines which S'™5„

by

Wattling, Shaving, Sgc. are the fame.

Hence, too, we fee that a general Increafe of the Bulk of the Body, with regard to Habit, as in fat, flefhy, braw- ny Perfons, dees not arife from any Increafe of the Solids, but by their Extenfion into larger Cavities, crowded with

ftagnant Humours. And hence Fatnefs becomes hurtful, call'd, becaufe held In' the Night time" c as it loads, weakens, and ideates See Fatness. A great part of the Ceremony confided in running'thro'

Whence anfes a very confiderable DiftinSion between the Streets, with Bottle and Glafs in hand drinkina • But Nmritiott and Rep hum; to which a Phyfician mutt have e- there was no Impurity nnpraflis'd in them' fpecial regard : the one ftrengthening and condenfing the The Athenians celebrated the NyHelia every three Years Veffels, thejither weakening, loofening, and extending the at the beginning of the Sprin". '

in Urines, which frequently grow clear or turbid, as Heat or Cold is apply'd to • them. By fuch Thicknefs or Spiffitude of the Humours, the Kays being either reflected, or too much refracted do not reach the Retina, or at lead ftrikeit too feebly " NYCTELIA, Onya, or Feafts in honour of Bacchus ■ fo

NYMPH, Nympha, in Mythology, a fort of Heathen Divinity, fuppofed to prefide over Waters, Rivers, and Fountains. See Goddess.

Some extend the Word further, and comprize under it the Goddeffes of the Fountains, Forefls, and Trees; call'd

fame. See Plenitude.

Hence, laftly, we fee why the Fabric of the Solids is not deftroy'd by the contain'd Fluids; how our Machine comes to fubfift fo long; why, when a Nerve is corrupted, the Nutrition of that part it belongs to, ceafes; and why

the fame obtains in an Artery : Why in an Embryo there particularly Oreades, Dryades, and Hamadryades

arenoSolids, in a Fetus vety few, in old Men a great deal; Meurfzus is of opinion, tbeGreeks borrow 'd their Notion

and why even the Nerves, Tendons, Arteries, and Recep- of thefe Divinities from the Fhomicians; for Nrmei* in their

tacks, become firft Cartilaginous then Bony. Language fignifying Soul, the Greeks imagin'd, that the Souls

Nutrition of Flams. See Vecetation, Sap, Cm- of the antient Inhabitants of Greece were become Nymphs

culat.on, SJc, ...,-. Particularly the Souls of -thofe who bad inhabited the"

Nutrition, in Pharmacy, a kind of Preparation, con- Woods, were call'd Dryades; thofe who had inhabited the

£fting in the gradual Mixture of Liquors of different Na- Mountains, Oreades; thofe who had dwelt on the S-a

tures, by flirting them together till they have acquired a Cozfts, Nereades; and laftly, thofe who had their Place "of

thick Confidence; as in making Butter of Saturn, or Utt- Abode near Rivers, or Fountains, Naides. See Dryades

ytentum Nutritum.

Nutritious Juke. See Nutrition.

Nutritive Faculty. See Faculty.

NUTRITUM, a deficcative, cooling, Unguent, prepared by the Agitation and Nutrition of fome Preparation of Lead, with Oil and Vinegar, or the Juice of Solatium, in a Mor- tar. See Unguent.

NUX Vomica, the Fruit, or, as fome will have it, the Stone of the Fruit of a Tree, growing in feveral Parts of

Egypt, or in the Iflands Tmor and Ceylon. while they are in the Egg, and after they'ha've undergone

I It is round and flat, of a grey Moufe-colour without, and an apparent Transformation. See Insect. vatious Colours within; fometimes yellow, fometimes Others ufe the Word Nmifba for the Change itfelf ot white, fometimes brown. The largeft, whiteft, neweft, the Eruca, or Worm, into a flying Animal, after having and cleaned, are the belt. laid afide its former Skin; which, as Swammerdam fhew?

This Drug is an allured Poifon for all Animals except is not etTeded by any proper Transformation, but by Rm Men. See Poison. ■ pie Accretion, or Growth of the Parts, whence the Skin

SB is

Oreades, ££c.

The Word Nymph, according to fome other Authots, comes from the Greek vuufr, a Bride, or Woman newly marry'd; and was apply'd to thefe Deities, becaufe reprefented un- der the Figure of young Maids.

Others derive Nymph from Lymph*, Water; in regard of their inhabiting near the Waters.

NYMPHA, among Naturalifts, a Term fometimes ufed for the little Skin wherewith Infects are enclofed, both