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a t reft about him, if he Thinks, he will be confeious of Succejfiai.

Succession, in Aftronomy. The SucceJJictz of the Signs, is the Order wherein they follow each other, and according to which, the Sun enters, fucceffively, into one, then into an- other, call'd, alio, Confeqllence. This Order is cxprels'd in the two following Technical Verfes;

Sunt Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo Zibraque, Scorpius, Arciteuens, Caper, Amphora, 'Pifies,

When a Planet is direct, it is faid to go according to the Order and SucceJJion of the Signs, that is, from Aries to Taurus, sjic. when Rerrograde, it is raid to go contrary to the Succejfm of the Signs, viz. from Gemini to Taurus, then to Aries, fjc. See Sign. ;

Succession, in Law, implies a Right to the Univerfa- lity of the Effects left by a Defunct.

Of this, there are feveral Kinds, ab-intejlate, intejlate, &c.

A SucceJJion, ab-inteflate, is that, a Perfon has a Right to by being next of Kin, which is, what we cail, being next Heir at Law. See Ae-Intestate.

A tejtamentary SucceJJion, is that, a Perfon comes to by Virtue of a Will.

SucceJJion in the diretJ Line, is that, coming from Afcen- dants or Defendants. Collateral SucceJJion, is that, coming by Unkles, Aunts, or other.Collaterals.

A jacent or abandon d SucceJJion, is a burthenfume or Vexatious One, which no Body will accept of. There is no real Succejfim in Benefices j for here, no Body Inherits. SucceJJions were anciently divided into Noble and Bale.

In Effects, that cannot be divided, as Kingdoms, &c. the SucceJJion falls on a {ingle Head, which is ufually the eldeft Son of the Deceafed, as being fuppofed an indivifible Reprefentative of his Father. In Effects, that are divided, all the Children reprefent their Father. 'Twas on this Principle, M. Courtin obierves, that each of the Sons of Jacob had his Share aflign'd him in the Land of 'Promife. 'Tis true, Manajjah and Ephraim, the two Sons of Jofeph, bad likewile their Shares ; but this was becaufe a double Portion had been allotted their Father, wherein he was treated as elder Brother, in consideration of the great Services he had done his Father and Brethren.

SUCCESSOR, a Perfon who has a Right to hold the Place another held before him ; whether he arrive at it by Election, Collation, Inheritance, or otherwife.

Our HUtorians tell us, that Queen Elizabeth could never bear to hear of a Succejjcr. The King of the Romans is Prc- iumprive Sttcccff.r to the Empire. The Canonills lay, a Coadjutor is a necefiary Succejjor to a Prelature 5 a Reiig- natary to the Refignant.

The Civilians lay, a Titular Ufu-frucluary, can do no- thing to the Prejudice of his Succejjor.

SUCC1NUM, in Pharmacy, Karabe or Amber ; a bitu- minous Juice or Relin, which from a Fluor grows hard and brittle. See Ameer.

The White!!, and moft Tranfparenr, is accounted beft ; it is of no grear Ufe in Medicine, per fe, as its Texture feems too compact to open and yield to the natural Elabo- rations ; though ibme have a great Opinion of it, as a Balfamick, and gave it in Gonorrhoea's particularly.

But it is certain, that what Pharmacy extorts from it, is of wonderfull Efficacy, efpecially in nervous Cafes.

SUCCISA; a medicinal Herb, call'd alfo MorfusTJiaboli, or the Devil's Sit. ...

'Tis a powerful Sudorific, infomuch that Sir Theodore Mayerne obferves, in the T'hilofophical TranfaBions, laying a Perfon lick of a Plague, or other malignant Fever, on a Bed thereof, moderately hot ; he fhall fweat 'till they tale him off; and much more, if he drink of the Decoction or Juice of the Herb. The Succifa is nowlittle ufed.

SUCCOTRINE Aloes. See Aloes.

SUCCUEUS or SUCCUBA, a Term ufed to fignify a T)ccmon, who affumes the Shape of a Woman, and, as fuch, lies with a Man.

Some Authors vSe Incubus and Succubus, indifcrimmately; but they ought to be diftinguifh'd ; Incubus being only pro- perly ufed, where the Dcemon is fuppofed to be in Form of a Man, and, as fuch, lies with a Woman. See Incubus.

SUCCULA, in Mechanicks, a bare Axis, or Cylinder, with Staves in it to move it round, without any Tympanum. See Axis.

SUCCTJS Tancreaticusl Sce 5 Pancreatic Juice.

Succus Nervofus

Nervous Juice.

SUCKERS or Offfets, in Agriculture, Gardening, (gc. are young Shoots, that proceed from the Root of a Tree, and are of the fame Kind and Nature with the Tree from which they fpring ; for fuch as grow from Trees raifed by Grafting or Inoculation, follow the Nature of the Stock. See En- grafting.

They fometimes put forth near the Body of the Mother- 1 lant ; but other Suckers at more Diftance are bell ; yet the former removed when there is leaft Sap in the Top, and pre- ferring what Fibrous Roots are upon them, often profper well. When they are taken up, the Ground is to be well opened, and if they grow from the Bodv of the Tree or great Roots, they muft be cut off ciofe to'the Stem and fet prefently. See Stock.

It forwards much the fpringing out of Suckers, to bear the Roots of Trees, and flit them in fome Places

SUCKING--y?«2/>. See Pump. ^SUCTION, the Aft of Sucking, or of drawing up a Fluid, as Air, Water, fjc. by the Mouth and Lungs?

Air is fitck'i in by the Mufcles of the Thorax, and Ab- domen, diiiending the Cavity of the Lungs and Abdomen, by which means the Air included therein, is rarified, and ceafes to be a Counterbalance to the external Air, which, of confequence, is driven in by rhe Preffure of the Atmofphere through the Mouth and Noftrils. See Respiration.

Air is fuck'd through a Pipe, in the fame Manner as with the naked Mouth :. It being here all one- as if the Mouth were extended the Length of* the Pipe..

The Suiiion of Jieavier Liquors is perform'd after the fame Manner, e.gr. in lying prone to drink .out of a Spring fgc. the Lips are applied dole to the Surface of the Water? fo as to prevent any Paffage of the Air between them ; then the Cavity of the Abdomen, fgc. being diilended as before, the Preffure of Air incumbent on the Surface of the Water with- out the Circumference of the Mouth, prevailing over that upon the Water within the fame, the Fluid is raifed, from the fame Principle as Water in a Pump. See Pump.

In fucking a heavy Liquor, as Water, through a Pipe, the longer the Pipe is, the greater Difficulty is found in the Suction ; but the Bigncfs or Diameter of the Pipe, makes no Alteration therein, The Reafon of this, arifes from the great Principle in Hydroflaticks, that Fluids prefs according ts their perpendicular Altitudes. See Fluid.

For, as the external Air raifes Columns of the Fluid with greater or lefs Difficulty, as their Altitudes are lefs, not as their Thickneffes are fo ; if two fuch Columns be conceived, the one twice as high as the other, and that other twice as thick as this firfl ; though the very fame Quantity of Water is to be fuck'd through' the Pipe, and the Force of the Air to raife it be exactly the fame, in both Cafes ; yet there will be required a greater Diftenfion of the Breafl, and a greater Nifus of the Mufcles, to raife and fuck the former than the latter.

From what we have faid, it evidently enough appears, that what we call Suction, is not perform'd by any active Faculty in the Mouth, Lungs, lie but is perform'd by the mere Im- pulfe and Preffure of the Atmofphere. See Air.

SUCULA or SUCCUL A, is aTerm in Mechanicks, for a bare Axis or Cylinder, with Staves in it, to move it round j but without any Tympanum or Peritrochium.

SUDAMINA, little Pimples in the Skin, like Millet Grains, frequent in Youth, efpecially thofe of a hot Tempe- rament, and that ufe much Exercife.

SUDATORY, a Name given by the ancient Romans, to their Sweating-houfes; fometimes alfo call'd Laconica. • The Sudatory was a Species of their Hypocaujla. See Hypocaustum,

SUDOR, in Medicine. See Sweat. I Sudor Anglicanus, or the Englifi Sweat, is an Epidemit Difeafe, firfl perceived in Engla?id, in 14&5.

'Twas, properly, a fort of Plague ; thus call'd, becaufe attended with an extraordinary kind of Sweat.

It made its Return four Times in the Space of 66 Years, viz. in 1506, 1517, 1528 and 15J;.

It began with a Sweat, which never ended, hut either with the Death of the Patient, or his Recovery. If he furvived 24 Hours, he was fafe. Few People efcaped of it at firfl: ; too much Care, arid too little, were found equally de- flructive.

The Patient was to wait, without ftirring, either in his Bed, or in his Cloaths, according to the Condition Nature was furprized in ; without burthening him either with Re- medies or with Foods ; without cloatliing either too much or too little ; and, if poflible, without either eating or drinking. The Sweat to be kept up, without either promoting it, by any extraordinary Heat, or checking it by the leaft Cold.

This was what was found by Experience ; and which was at length pradti Ted, with happy Succefs. The Difeafe was firfl felt en the 21ft of September, and in the fame Day, fprcad itfelfall over England ; where, after a great Mortality, it ftopp'd all at once, towards the End of Otlcber.

Its Ravages were (b great, that in Ibme Parts, it took off a Third Part of the People, in a very little Time.

At its Return under Henry VIII. in 15 \6, it was as gene- neral, and as dangerous as before, and again difappeared all at once.

At rhe third Attack, in 1528, 'twas lefs fatal ; infomuch

that Sellay, Bifhop of Sayonne, then Ambaffador in

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