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

Rudbeck, 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 novos hepaticos aquosos, et ufa glandularum sero/a, in 4to. He there affirms his claim to the discovery of this lymphatic vesicle, against the pretensions of Thomas Bartholin. 2. Atlantica, five folios, 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.