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Hydrothorax

a name given to serous fluid occupying the pleura. It may take place as the result of inflammation, also in heart disease, in disease of the kidneys, and sometimes in anæmia.

It is celebrated for the beauty of the France, 3 miles from the Mediterranean.

It is celebrated for the beauty of the situation and the mildness of the climate, and is therefore much resorted to by foreigners suffering from consumption or nervous complaints. tion of disease, the art of preserving health, through wise sanitary precaution of disease, the art of preserving health, through wise sanitary precautions, such as attention to diet, regimen, etc. tive moisture of the air. There are three instrument for measuring the comparative moisture of the air. There are three kinds: (1) those which act by absorpthose in which the hygrometric condition is deduced from observations of a tion is deduced from observations of a wet and dry bulb. Of the first class is It consists a human hair boiled in ly It consists of a human hair boiled in lye, lengthening or contracting as the air is more or less moist. lye, HYLAEOSAURUS (hi-le-ō-sou'ros), a gigantic fossil lizard discovered in the Its probable length was about 25 feet.

Its probable length was about 25 feet. which presents a structure intermediate between that of existing birds and reptiles.

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