to bring away the lochia.

HÆMANTHUS, the blood-flower, a genus of plants belonging to the hexandria clas; and in the natural method ranking under the ninth order, Spathaee. See BOTANY Index.

HÆMATITES, or blood-stone, a species of iron ore. See MINERALOGY Index.

HÆMATOPUS, the sea-pye, a genus of birds belonging to the order of grallae. See ORNITHOLOGY Index.

HÆMATOXYLUM, logwood, or Campeachy Wood; a genus of plants belonging to the decandra clas; and in the natural method ranking under the 33rd order, Lomentaceae. See BOTANY Index; and for its properties and use as a dye stuff, see DYING Index.

HÆMOPTYSIS, Hæmoptysis, or Hamptoe; a spitting of blood. See MEDICINE Index.

HÆMORRHAGY, (compounded of ἀίμα "blood," and ἐκβάλλω "I burst forth"), in medicine, a flux of blood at any part of the body; arising either from a rupture of the vessels, as when they are too full or too much pressed; or from an erosion of the same, as when the blood is too sharp and corrosive.—The hemorrhagy, properly speaking, as understood by the Greeks, was only a flux of blood at the nose; but the moderns extend the name to any kind of flux of blood, whether by the nose, mouth, lungs, stomach, intestines, fundament, matrix, or whatever part. See MEDICINE and SURGERY Index.

HÆMORRHOIDAL, an appellation given by anatomists to the arteries and veins going to the intestine rectum.

HÆMORRHOIDS, or Piles, an hemorrhage or issue of blood from the hemorrhoidal vessels. See MEDICINE Index.

HÆMUS, in Ancient Geography, a vast ridge, running from Illyricum toward the Euxine, (Pliny); so high as to afford a prospect both of the Euxine and Adriatic. Here, in after ages, was constituted a province called Hemimont, or Hemimontus.

HÆRETICO COMBURENDO, a writ which anciently lay against an heretic, who, having once been convicted of heresy by his bishop, and having abjured it, afterwards falling into it again, or into some other, is thereupon committed to the secular power. This writ Harlem is thought by some to be as ancient as the common law itself; however, the conviction of heresy by the common law was not in any petty ecclesiastical court, but before the archbishop himself in a provincial synod, and the delinquent was delivered up to the king to do with him as he pleased: so that the crown had a control over the spiritual power. But by 2 Hen. IV. cap. 15. the diocesan alone, without the intervention of a synod, might convict of heretical tenets; and unless the convict abjured his opinions, or if after abjuration he relapsed, the sheriff was bound ex officio, if required by the bishop, to commit the unhappy victim to the flames, without waiting for the consent of the crown. This writ remained in force, and was actually executed on two Anabaptists in the seventh of Elizabeth, and on two Arians in the ninth of James I.—Sir Edward Coke was of opinion, that this writ did not lie in his time: but it is now formally taken away by statute 29 Car. II. cap. 9. But this statute does not extend to take away or abridge the jurisdiction of Protestant archbishops or bishops, or any other judges of any ecclesiastical courts, in cases of atheism, blasphemy, heresy, or schism, and other damnable doctrines and opinions; but they may prove and punish the same according to his majesty's ecclesiastical laws, by excommunication, deprivation, degradation, and other ecclesiastical censures, not extending to death, in such fort and no other, as they might have done before the making of this act, sec. 2. See HERESY.

HÆREM. See HARLEM.See MIXING, HELMINTHOLOGY Index.