a large kitchen utensil, commonly made of copper; having a moveable iron handle, whereby to hang it on the chimney hook. The word is formed from the French chaudron, or rather the Latin caldarium.

Boiling in CALDRONS (caldariis decoquere), is a capital punishment spoken of in the middle-age writers, decreed to divers sort of criminals, but chiefly to defacers of the coin. One of the torments inflicted on the ancient Christian martyrs, was boiling in caldrons of water, oil, &c.

'CALDWALL, RICHARD, a learned English physician, born in Staffordshire about the year 1513. He studied physic in Brazen-nose College, Oxford; and was examined, admitted into, and made censor of, the College of Physicians at London, all in one day. Six weeks after he was chosen one of the elects; and in the year 1570, he was made president of that college. Mr Wood tells us, that he wrote several pieces in his profession; but he does not tell us what they were, only that he translated a book on the art of surgery, written by one Horatio More, a Florentine physician. We learn from Camden, that Caldwall founded a chirurgical lecture in the College of Physicians, and endowed it with a handsome salary. He died in 1585.