Nettlerash
or URTICARIA, the term applied to a common form of eruption on the skin. The eruption consists of wheals, or little solid eminences of irregular outline, and either white or red, or most commonly both red and white, there being a white center with a red margin. The rash is accompanied with great heat, itching, and irritation, but is always aggravated by scratching; the appearance on the skin and the sensation being very much like the appearance and feeling produced by the stinging of nettles; and hence the origin of its names.
NETTLE TREE (Celtis), natural order Urticaceæ, a deciduous tree, with simple and generally serrated leaves, much resembling those of the common nettle, but not stinging. It has a sweet fleshy drupaceous fruit.
NEUFCHÁTEL, or NEUCHATEL (nuh-chä-tel) (in German Neuenburg), a Swiss canton, bounded by France, Vaud, the Lake of Neufchâtel, and Bern, having an area of 312 square miles. Neufchâtel was an independent NEURASTHENIA principality as early as 1034. After various vicissitudes it came into the hands of the King of Prussia, as heir of the house of Orange. In 1814 it was received into the Swiss Confederacy, and was the only canton with a monarchical government. This it preserved till 1848.
After threatened war in May, 1857, the King of Prussia renounced all his rights in Neufchâtel. Several ridges of the Jura run through the country. The Lake of Neufchâtel, 24 miles long by 8 broad, communicates through the Aar with the Rhine. Grazing and dairy farming are extensively carried on in the canton; wine, fruits, hemp, and flax are produced. The chief manufactures are lace, cotton, watches and clocks (specially at Chaux de Fonds, Neufchâtel, and Locle). The religion is Protestant. The language is French, but German is also spoken. Pop. about 150,000. The capital, al, of the same name, is 24 miles W. of Bern, on a steep slope above the N. W. shore of Lake Neufchâtel. It has an old Gothic church of the 12th century; many charitable institutions; a gymnasium or college, containing a valuable natural history collection founded by Professor Agassiz, a native of the town, etc. It has various manufactures and an extensive trade.
Pop. about 25,000.
NEUILLY (nuh-ye), or NEUILLY- SUR-SEINE, a town of France; department of Seine; immediately N. of the Bois de Boulogne, and practically a suburb of Paris. Here, near the Seine, and in a large and beautiful park, formerly stood the Château de Neuilly, built by Louis XV., and the favorite residence of Louis Philippe, which was burned at the revolution in 1848. When Louis Philippe took refuge in England he assumed the title of Count de Neuilly.
Pop. about 45,000.