Bright's Disease
a granular disease of the cortical portion of the kidneys, so called because it was first diagnostically described by Dr. Richard Bright, an English physician. It is first emphasized by the secretion of urine containing a large amount of albumen, and this symptom is followed by other complications, usually in rapid sequence. The most commonly observed pathological effects are dropsy, nausea, fever, uræmia, and, in some cases, petrification of the kidneys and ureters.
BRIHUEGA (brē-ā'gwa), a town of Spain, in New Castile, on the Tajuna, 20 miles E. N. E. of Guadalajara. Here BRINE SHRIMP Dec. 9, 1710, the French, under the Duke de Vendôme, defeated the allies commanded by Lord Stanhope. the governor-general of the Windward villas. Bridgetown is the residence of Islands. Pop. about 17,000. size. It is common in the markets .
New Haven and Hartford railroad; 27 mouth co., Mass.; on the New York, miles S. of Boston. It contains five villages and has a State Normal School, He was a deputy to the National Convention in the State Farm, State Almshouse, a and passed some time in the United States; returned to France in 1796. His title to fame is the work, "Physiology of Taste," an essay on the social ocial implications of gastronomy. He died in Paris, Feb. 2, 1826. TON, third DUKE OF, the "Father of Sulphur, in order to purify it from foreign matters, is generally melted in a close vessel, allowed to settle, then after enormous expense, and years of it becomes hard, and is known in commerce as roll brimstone. moted the Grand Trunk Canal naviga- pleted in 1761. He afterward protown of the Northwest provinces, British India; on the left bank of the was deprived of the commonest comof the holiest cities of the Hindus, and crowds of pilgrims go there from all parts of India, more particularly in value of the Bridgewater canal estate is estimated at about $1,250,000. He died are a large number of temples and shrines.
BRIDGMAN, FREDERIC ARTHUR, Ala., Nov. 10, 1847. He studied at the an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Brooklyn Art School and National on the Adriatic, 45 miles E. N. E. of J. L. Gérôme, and at the Ecole des Beaux was an important city, and with its excellent port became a considerable naval station of the Romans. Its importance as a seaport declined in the Middle Ages, and was, subsequently, completely lost, pieces. Among his notable paintings are for Oriental and archæological figure Navigation Company put on a weekly line of steamers between Brindisi Alexandria. From this cause the town has risen to large importance. Pop. about 25,500. 21, 1829. She was a bright, intelligent mon salt. It is naturally produced in many places beneath the surface of the earth, and is also made artificially, for preserving meat, a little saltpeter being generally added to the solution. took her care and education at the deaf and dumb school. The first attempt was lives in the Great Salt Lake of Utah. It signs, by which she could interchange eyes, a delicate, slender body, bo which is embossed words were attached to differ- to read embossed letters by touch; next, BRINVILLIERS like or leaflike feet. It is about 1/4 of an inch long. Similar forms live in brine vats in various parts of the world. the governor-general of the Windward villas. Bridgetown is the residence of Islands. Pop. about 17,000. a notorious French poisoner, born about BRIDGEWATER, a town in Plymouth co., Mass.; on the New York, ceived a careful education. In 1651, she was married to the Marquis, and formed the State Farm, State Almshouse, a lages and has a State Normal School, young cavalry officer. The latter was imprisoned in the Bastille, and there manufactories of iron, nails, tacks, position of poisons, which art he afterward taught to his mistress. They then commenced a series of poisonings, the TON, third DUKE OF, the "Father of then her two brothers and her sister, born in 1736. With the assistance of Inland Navigation in Great Britain," their fortunes. She fled, but was arrested at Liège, and beheaded, in 1676. difficulty, he cut a canal uniting Liverpool and Manchester which was completed in 1761. He afterward promolded under pressure and heat, the pitch or some similar substance being was deprived of the commonest commaterial.