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in medicine. See HEMorRHOIDS. Prues (Roger de), an ingenious painter, born at Clamecy, 1635. He visited several European courts, in the suite of the French amba ador, and in 1692 went to Holland as a secret negociator, in the character of a picture virtuoso. His intrigues were discovered, and he was thrown into prison, from which the peace of Ryswick liberated him. In his confinement he wrote the lives of painters, and on his return to France received a pension. He died 1709, aged 74. He baht ed besides a translation. of Dufresnoy—an abridgement of anatomy accommodated to painting and sculpture —di ertations on the works of famous: a inters, .