a ventosity arising from indigestion, and discharging itself at the mouth with a very disagreeable noise.

RUBBECK (Olaus), a learned Swedish physician, born of an ancient and noble family in 1630. He became professor of medicine at Upsal, where he acquired great applause by his extensive knowledge; and died in 1702. His principal works are, 1. Exercitatio anatomica exhibens ductus novae hepaticae aquosae, &c. &c. glandularum serfsa, in 4to. He there affirms his claim to the discovery of the lymphatic vessels, against the pretensions of Thomas Bartholin. 2. Atlantica, sive Manhein, vera Japothi posteriorum sedes ac patria, 4 vols folio, is full of strange paradoxes supported with profound learning: he there endeavours to prove, that Sweden was the country whence all the ancient Pagan divinities and our first parents were derived; and that the Germans, English, French, Danes, Greeks, and Romans, with all other nations, originally came from thence.