celebrated physician, grand- son to the philosopher Aristotle. He discovered by the motion of the pulse the love which Antiochus had conceived for his mother-in-law Stratonice, and was re- warded with 100 talents for the cure by the father of Antiochus. He was a great enemy to bleeding and vio- lent physic.

Erasmus, Desiderius, born at Rotterdam in 1467. He lost his father and mother at 14 years of age; and was committed to the care of certain guar- dians, who would force him to be an ecclesiastic, which he refused for a long time. However, he was obliged to assume the religious habit among the canons regular in the monastery of Stein near Tergou; but afterwards obtained a dispensation from his vows. He was the most learned man of the age in which he lived; and contributed, by his example and his writings, to the reformation of learning in the several countries in which he occasionally resided, viz. Italy, Switzerland, Hol- land, France, and England: with the last, he was most satisfied; and found the greatest encouragement from Henry VIII. Sir Thomas More, and all the learned Englishmen of those days. He published a great ma- ny books; and died at Basil in 1536. He was buried honourably, and his memory is still held in veneration. He had, however, many enemies; and as he did not embrace the reformation, and yet confused many things in popery, he hath been treated injuri- ously both by the Catholics and Protestants. The works of Erasmus in 10 vols folio were published at Leyden