QUINSY. 622 QTJINTILIAN. tic, followed by a single large dose of quinine ; in addition the application of warmth and the use of antiseptic anodyne and astringent gargles. If the tonsillitis is of rheumatic origin salicylate of soda may be given. When suppuration has be- come inevitable, hot turpentine stupes or poul- tices applied over the angle of the jaw will hasten the formation of pus. Even before the first indication of pointing the abscess should be freely incised and the pus evacuated. This pro- cedure is attended with immediate relief. Chi-on- ically diseased tonsils should be removed to pre- vent future attacks. QUINT, Alokzo Hall (1828-96). An Ameri- can clergyman and army chaplain, born at Barnsteadj N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 184G, and at the Andover Theological Semi- nary in 1852. From 1853 until 1803 he was pastor of the Central Congregational Cliureh at Roxbury, Mass., and from 1855 to 1861 he vas a member of the Massachusetts Board of Educa- tion. At the outbreak of the Civil War he be- came chaplain of the Second Massachusetts Vol- unteers and served with them until 1864. After the war he was pastor in turn of several Con- gregational churches. He was a vigorous and interesting writer, and published Army Notes (1864), and I'he Records of the Second Massa- chusetts Regiment ISGl-Go (,1867) : was editor of the Congreyational Qiiarterlii and the Congre- gational Year-book, and wrote frequently for re- ligious periodicals. He was an organizer, and for many years was secretary of the National Council of Congregational Churches. QUINTAIN (OF. qiiintaine, cuintaine, from !ML. (juintaiia, quintain, Lat. quintnna, street in the camp between the tifth and sixth maniples, containing the market and place for exercise, from ijuintanus. fifth, from i;uiiiiiue. five), or QuiNTiN. An instrument used in the ancient practice of tilting on horseback with the lance. It consisted of an upright post, surmounted by a crossbar turning on a pivot, which had at one end a flat board, at the other a bag of sand. Tlie object of the filter was to .strike the board at such speed that the rider was past before the bag of sand, as it whirled round, could hit him on the back. QUINTAN A, kenta'na, Manuel Jos £ (1772- 1857 ) . A Spanish author and statesman, born at Madrid. He studied at Salamanca, and became a lawyer in Madrid, where his house was a resort of the advanced Liberals of the time. Among his earliest productions were his patriotic "Odes," which gave him a place in the first rank of Spanish poets. On the outbreak of the War of Spanish Independence he made good use of his lyric gift to stimulate the patriotism of his countrymen. He also acted as secretary of the Cortes and regency, and dis- tinguished himself as editor of the Seminario Patri-otico, and as author of the manifestos of the insurrectionary juntas, and of most of the official statements of the Cortes. On the restora- tion of Ferdinand Vll. in 1814, Quintana's liber- alism caused his imprisonment for six years. Re- leased in 1820, he was received in JIadrid with acclamations, and was appointed President of Public Instruction in 1821. In 1833 he was made tutor of the Infanta Isabella and was cre- ated a Senator in 1835. He also held office as Director-General of Public Instruction up to 1851. He died at Madrid. Quintana held a high place as a poet, but his fame rests chielly on his celebrated work Vidas de Espanoles cclcbres (3 vols., 1807-34). He also wrote several tragedies, and edited a collection of Castilian poetry. His patriotic odes earned him the name of the •Spanish Tyrt;eus.' The most complete edition of his works is that of Gonzales Rojas (Madrid, 1897-98). Consult: IMenendez y Pelayo, D. Man- uel-Jose Quintana, vol. iii. of the Espaita del siglo XIX (Madrid, 1887) ; and Piueyro, Manuel Jos6 Quintana (Paris and Madrid, 1892). QUINTET (It. quintetto, from quinto, Lat. quintus, fifth, from quinque, five). A musical composition for five voices, or for five instru- ments, all the parts of which are real. The instruments composing a quintet may be of various kinds, most frequently the regular string quartet with pianoforte. Quintets have also been written for two violins, two violas, cello (Boc- eherini) ; for two violins, viola, and two cellos (Schubert op. 163) ; for two violins, viola, cello, and double bass (Onslow) ; and for one violin, viola, cello, double-bass, and piano (Schubert, Trout-quintet, op. 114). Often wind instruments are also introduced, as the string quartet with clarinet (Mozart). Mozart has also written a quintet for wind-instruments only (oboe, clari- net, horn, bassoon) with piano. An etl'ective quintet was written by B. O. Klein for voice (soprano), violin, cello, horn, and ]iiano. The music written for a quintet is of the same char- acter as that for a quartet (q.v. ), although the form is more difficult. QUINTIL'IAN (Maecus Fabius Quintil- lANU.s) (C.35-C.97 A.D. ). A Roman rhetorician, born at Calagurris (the modern Calaliorra), in Spain. He attended in Rome the lectures of Domitius Afer, who died in 59. After tliis date, however, he revisited Spain, whence he returned in 68 to Rome, in the train of Galba, and began to practice as an advocate, in which capacity his reputation became considerable. He was more distinguished, however, as a teacher of elocution than as a practicing orator, and his instruction came to be the most eagerly sought after among all his contemporaries, while among his pupils he numljcred Pliny the Younger and the two grand-nephews of Domitian. He was the first l)ublic teacher who benefited by the endowment of Vespasian and received a fixed salary from the Imperial exchequer, and as a mark of Imperial favor he was invested with the insignia and title of consul. His professional career as . a teacher of eloquence, commencing iirobably with 69, extended over a period of 20 years, after which he retired into private life, and ilied prob- ably about 97. The reputation of Quintilian in modern times is based on his great work entitled De Instil utione Oratoria Libri XII., a complete system of rhetoric, which he dedicates to his friend !Marcellus Victorius, himself a Court favorite and orator of distinction. It w-as writ- ten after he had ceased to be a iiublie teacher, and was the fruit of two years' labor. During its composition, however, he was still, in the lifetime of Domitian, acting as tutor to the grand-nephews of that Emperor. In the first book he discusses the preliminary training through which a youth nuist pass before he can begin those studies which are requisite for the orator. The second book treats of the first principles of I
