Heroship

The character of a hero. He'ro-worship, n. The worship of heroes, practised by the nations of antiquity; hence, extravagant admiration of heroes, or heroic qualities. Herpes, ( her'peez,) n. [Lat. and Gr.] ( Med .) A disease of the skin, consisting in the eruption of small aggregated vesicles. Several varieties of H. are mentioned by systematic writers on skin-diseases. A common form is familiarly known as shingles. In this, which, though not a dangerous is a very troublesome disease, patches of herpetic vesicles extend either quite around, or half around the body near the waist. The treatment of H. in its several forms consists merely in correcting the state of the secretions by alteratives and aperients. Spanish painter, B. at Seville, 1576. He was employed to paint in the palace and churches of his native town, and he also painted many genre subjects. A Last Judgment, and a Descent from the Cro , are among his principal works. D. about 1650.-HERRERA, FRANCESCO, el Mozo , (the younger,) son of the preceding, and also a painter, B. at Seville, about 1622. IHe studied at Rome, and after his return became second president of the Academy of Painting, Murillo being then president. He afterwards went to Madrid, and became first painter to Philip IV. D. about 1680.-There were several other artists of the name of Herrera contemporary with the above.