C                            (A 7) CC AT
Lens will be requir'd to fupply its Place. To this it is Perfons, nor any
difcovery or unravelling ;'the Plot being on-
.anfwer'd, that there have been Inflances of Perfons who ly a mere Paizhge
out of Agitation, to Quiet and Repofe.
have feen, after Couching, without any Lens; at leaff, 'tis This Cataflrope
is rather accommodated to the Nature of
granted, that immediately after the Operation, feveral the Epopea, than of
Tragedy. Indeed we meet with it in
Perfons have feen very difiincly: And tho Lens's foon fome of the Antients,
but it is out of doors among the Mo-
.become neceffary, yet the firil Moment wherein they faw  derns. In the fecond,
the principal Perfon undergoes a
without, feems to be a Proof that the Cryflalline was not Change of Fortune;
fometimes by means of a Difcovery,
coucb'd.                                            and fomnetimtes without.
M. de la Hire, in Confirmation of the antient Syflem,  . The Qualifications
of this Change are, that it be proba-
afigns this Reafon for the Neceffity of a Lens, after the blet and necelfary:
in order to be probable 'tis requir'd it
Operation, viz. that the Vice which produc'd the Cata- be the natural Refult
or Effeet of the foregoing Actions,
raa is fill fubfiffing in the aqueous Humour; which  i. e. it mu'ffring from
the Subje& it felt; or take its Rife
being too thick and muddy, lets too few Rays pafs: a from the Incidents;
and not be introduced merely to ferve a
Failing to be repair'd by a Lens, which throws a greater Turn. The Difcovery
in the Catafirophe, muft have the
Quantity of Rays on the Retina. He adds Come Expe- fame Qualifications as
the Catafirophe it felf, whereof it is
:rinients made on the Eyes of Oxen; the Refult of which a principal Part:
It rnuft be both probable and necefary.
was, that the Cryflalline could never be laid perfeqly in To be probable,
it mufrfipring out of the Subje& it felf;
the Bottom of the Eye, but there fill fluck up, fo as to not effeded by means
of Marks or Tokens, Rings, Brace-
Alop up part of the Paffage of the Rays; partly on account lets, or by a
mere Recollelion, as is frequently done both by
of its Bulk, and partly on that of its being fuflain'd by the Antients and
Moderns. To be necefCary, it-mull never
the aqueous and vitreous Humour: He adds, that in the leave the Perfons it
concerns in the fame Sentiments they
Operation of Couching, the Needle is apt to fcratch had before, but fill
produce either Love or Hatred, &c.
the anterior Surface of the Cryflalline, and open the Mem- Sometimes the
Change confifis in the Difcovery; Sometimes
,brane wherewith it is invelop'd; the Confequence of which it follows at
a diflance, and Sometimes refults immediately
will be Wrinkles, which will render the Refralions irre- from it, which is
the moft beautiful Kind: and thus it is
igular, and change the Direaion of the Rays which lhould in OEdipus. See
DISCOVERY.
.all meet in the fame Point; Io as to fpoil the Reprefentation  Mr. SDryden
thinks a Cataftroplie refulting from a mere
of Objels. Laflly, 'tis infifled, that if the Cry{lalline be Change in the
Sentiments and Refolutions of a Perfon,
couch'd, the Patient wou'd not fee at all, for want of the without any further
Machinery, may be Co manag'd as to be-
necef~hry Refradions. See CRYSTALLINE.,             come exceedingly beautiful,
nay preferable to any other.
M. Antoine, on the other hand, relates, that upon opening 'Tis a Difpute
among the Criticks, Whether the Cataftrophe
a Perfon whom he had coucb'd on both Eyes, he found the fhould always fall
out happily, and favourably on the fide
two Cryflallines a~tually couch'd, and lodg'd at the Bot- of Virtue, or not
? i. e. Whether Virtue is always to be re-
tomn, between the vitreous Humour and the Uvea, where warded, and Vice punilh'd,
in the Catafirophe: But the
*they were left by the Needle; and yet the Perfon faw  Reafons on the Negative
fide feem the firongeff. Ariflotte
without either : which fhews, both that the Operation of prefers a {hocking
Catafirophe, to a happy one; in regard,
Couching the Cryflalline is praaicable, and that Vifion may the moving of
Terror and Pity, which is the Aim of Trage-
B1',        ,wth1,nout it  In efrIt the, vitreous and anue- dv. is better
efeed by the former than the latter.


I"  WJ~X &.  vsts  ..       ___  _ ___ ____  __ -1__   -., ,  w
  ____  .
Humour, upon removing the Cry lalline, may be iup-  Bofl divides the Cataftrophe,
at leaf, with regard to
d to run into the Cavity, to affume the Figure of its the Epopea, into the
Unravelling, or Denore6rnent, and
'id, and perform the Refraaions and Offices of the the Achevement, or Finifhing;
the laft of which he makes
falline; it being found, by Experiment, that the Re- the Refult of the firli,
and to confiu in the Hero's Pafrage
ion is the fame in each Humour. See EYE.        out of a State of Trouble
and Agitation, to Refi and Quiet.
o lhew, however, that there are Catarats diflina  This Period is but a Point,
without Extent, or Duration;
Glaucomas, M. Itiure produc'd before the Society an in which it differs from
the firfi, which comprehends every
of a Man blind 2z Years; wherein was a diffinc& Ca- thing after the Knot,
or Plot laid. He adds, that there
17, or Pellicle, which clos'd the Aperture of the Pupil. are feveral Unravellings
in the Piece, in regard there are
PUPIL, VisioN, &C.                              feveral Knots, which
beget one another: The Fin .ing,
ATARRH, in Medicine, a Flux, or Defluxion of a  is the End of the lafd Unravelling.
See KNOT, TRAGEDY,
p ferous Humour from the Glands about the Head and COMEDY, FABLE., fC.
Dat, upon the Parts adjacent. See FLUXION.        The Cataftrophe made the
fourth and laft Part in the
itarrhs are, generally, occafion'd by a Diminution of antient Drama; or that
immediately fucceeding the Cata-
ifible Perfpiration on taking cold * the Effec. whereof Jlafls. See CATASTASIS.
that the Lymph, that fhould pals by the Skin, ouzes  CATCH-Land, is fuch
Land, particularly in Norfolk,
upon thofe Glands; and being thus extravafated, occa- which is not certainly
known to what Parifh it belongs,; o
Irritations, Coughs, and all the ufual Symptoms. that the Parfon who firil
gets the Tithes there, enjoys it
Tussis. fDegory deduces all Difeafes from Catarrbs; for that Year.
:h he looks upon as the Seminary of mof'c Diforders of  CATCH-POL, a Term
now us'd, by way of Reproach,
Body. Etmnuller difiinguifhes a otand acold Catarrb; for a Bailiff's Follower,
or Affiflant; fee BAILIFiF. An-
firfi attended with an unnatural Heat and Pain, and a tiently, it was a Term
of Credit, apply'd to thofe we now
,gofis of the whole Body i the excreted Lymph being call Serjeants of the
Mace, Bailiffs, or any other that ufe
eding thin and lharp: In the cold, all the Symptoms to arrefl Men on any
Acion. See SERGEANT, &cT..
more remifs.                                      CATECHU, in Medicine, a
fort of medicinal Earth,
here is alfo a fuffocative Catarrh, feated in the Larynx, call'd alfo Cachou,
and 7apan Earth. See C&CHOU, and
IEpiglottis, which it confringes i and thus, obflruding JAPAN Earth.
piration, endangers Strangling.                   CATECHUMEN, a Candidate
of Baptifm; or a Per-
atarrhs are cured by fotining the Serofities, and aug- fon who prepares himfelf
fbr the receiving thereof; See
iting Tranfpiration, by means of Diaphoreticks, fopori- BAPTISM.
us Medicines, and Diureticks. Smoaking of Tobacco  Authors diflinguifh three
Kinds of Catechumens, among
ecommended as excellent in all catarrhal AfFections: the Antients, viz. thofe
who were only Hearers, diflin-
ifinate Catarrbs, recourfe is fometimes had to Iffues guifh'd by the Name
.udientes; thofe who bowed, Genes
IBlifers.                                      fledfentes; and thofe qualify'd
for Baptifm, call'd Compe-
starrhs don't arife from the Head only, but Sometimes tentes; who were alfo
Genu flel entes, becaufe of their
from other Parts of the Body; the lymphatic Vefrels, bowing at the Rehearfal
of certain Prayers over them.
:rein the Serofities are contain'd, as well as the Glands Others make but
two Orders, viz. the Genu fletfente; as
feparate them, being diflibuted all over the Body.  the firei; and the Audientes,
or Hearers, call'd ImperfrfLfi:
'he Word comes from the Greek KoTCICPP, defiuo, I flow, The Imperfefi were
thofe of the Heathens, who pre-
vn                                              fented theemfelves for Baptifm.
Perfeffi, were thofe fuf-
'ATASTASIS, in Poetry, the third part of the antient ficiently infliruled
in the Faith. Some add another Kind
ma; being that wherein the Intrigue, or Aaion fet on of Cotecbumens, call'd
Elefi; as being chofen and nomi-
in the Epitafis, isfupported, carried on, andheightned, nated for that End:
Others, lafily, diflinguilh the three
t be ripe for the unravelling in the Catafirophe. See Orders into Audientes,
or thofe admitted to the hearing the
TMIS                                                                  e~~~~~~~~fi,
tho~~~~~Ifeet fufi-
TA6sis and CATASTROPHE.                         Catechifm, and other Inilruclions'
the Elffi, tho  u -
'he Word comes from the Greek Kinr¢efic, ConJfitution, ciently inflructed,
and chofen to receive Baptifm; and
being as it were, the Mean, Tenor, State, or Conflitu- Competentes, who were
in a State and Difpo tion for its
of the Piece. See DR AMA and TRAGEDY.          Reception.
ATASTROPHE, in Poetry, the Change or Revolution   The C0te1bummens were not
only diflinguili'd by Name,
dramatic Poem, or theTurn which unravels the Intrigue, but alfo by Place:
They were difpos'd, with the Peni-
terminates the Piece. See DRAMA, TRAGEDY, EC.  tents, in the 'Portico, at
the Extremity of the Church, o.
'he Catafirophe is either Simple or Implex; whence alfo pofite to the Choir.
They were not allow'd to aflift at the
Fable and Aaion are denominated.  See FABLE.    Celebration of the Eucharift;
but after Sermon, the Deacon
a the firfl there is no change in the State of the principal difinifs'd them
with this Form, fite Cateckumenif mix e¢f.
The


i