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Testudo (Roman antiquity a cover)

in Roman antiquity, a cover or screen used in assaults on fortified towns. In cases where the town was of small size and accessible on every side, while the force at the disposal of diers was drawn round the walls, a pordiers was drawn round the walls, a portion of whom kept up a constant disthe battlements, while the rest, advancing on every side simultaneously, with their the battlements, while the rest, advancing form a continuous covering like a shell shields joined above their heads so as to form a continuous covering like a shell scaling ladders against a number of dif- ferent points, and, at the same time, enscaling ladders against a number of different points, and, at the same time, enapplied to a movable structure, on wheels applied to a movable structure, on wheels or rollers, used to protect sappers. In mining, a shelter similar in shape and design employed as a defense for miners, etc., when working in ground or rock which is liable to cave in.

In medicine, an encysted tumor, from a supposed resemblance to the shell of a tortoise.

In music, a name applied to a species of lyre, because, according to the legend recounted at full length in the Homeric hymn, the frame of the first lyre was formed by Hermes out of the shell of a tortoise.

In zoölogy, the tortoise; the type Most abundant in the Ethiopian region, but also extending over the Oriental region, into the S. of Europe and the Eastern States of North America. Thorax convex, rather globular, and solid; breast-bone solid, with 12 shields, those of the throat separated; five toes on fore feet, four on the hinder pair. neck; a disease common to mankind and animals. It is characterized by the contraction of a greater or less number of traction of a greater or less number of aggravate the contractions and by troubles more or less accentuated in the calorification of the circulation and respiration. It is most commonly located in the jaw and begins with painful stiffness at the maxillary muscles and the muscles at the nape of the neck or by difficulty in swallowing. The progress of tetanus is either acute or chronic. The acute form develops in from one to four days; the chronic form may last a fortnight. in acute tetanus the average number of deaths ranges from 65 to 80 per cent.

The disease is caused by a bacillus which secretes a very active poison, and that earth from the street or garden and essecretes a very active poison, and that earth from the street or garden and es- pecially from stables or manured land U or feet, which is the most important fac- tor in the development of tetanus. No contact of the earth with any kind of or feet, which is the most important facwound, especially wounds in the hands tor in the development of tetanus. No after the wound is received hold the part been discovered though antitetanic serum affected for 20 minutes in the smoke of woolen or flannel. This is easily protive. A very simple preventive of lockjaw is here given. As soon as possible after the wound is received hold the part affected for 20 minutes in the smoke of woolen or flannel. This is easily proen or flannel cloth on a shovelful of hot cured by placing butts or pieces of woolcoals. his writings are: "Moral Essay on Man in Longvic, Burgundy, in 1770. Among philosophical and polemical writer; born his writings are: "Moral Essay on Man in His Relation to God" (1818); He died in Paris in 1841. "Against Obscurantism and Jesuitism" ter of Jesuitism and Doctrinism" (1832).

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