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Torrens Lake – Traducianism

Torrens Lake

a large shallow salt lake of South Australia, about 40 miles N. of Spencer's Gulf. In the dry season it is merely a salt marsh.

Tort

in law, denotes injustice or injury. Actions on torts or wrongs are all personal actions for trespasses, nuisances, assaults, defamatory words, and the like.

Toul

a town of France, department

Toul

a town of France, department 12 miles W. of Nancy. It is strongly fortified, and has a fine Gothic cathe- 12 miles W. of Nancy. It is strongly was taken in the Franco-German War after a siege of five weeks, Sept. 23, 1870.

Pop. (1906), 13,345.

Touraine

an ancient province of France; bounded N. by Maine, E. by Orléanais and Berry, S. by Berry and Poitou, and W. by Anjou and Poitou. It now forms the department of Indre-et- Loire.

Tourcoing

a town of France, department of Nord; 9 miles N. N. E. of Lille; is a well-built thriving manufacturing town, the staple manufactures being woolen, cotton, linen, and silk stuffs, besides dye works, soap works, sugar refineries, machine works, etc. It was captured and almost destroyed by the Germans in 1914. Pop. about 82,000. TOURGEE

Tower Hill

a hill in London, near the famous Tower of London, and the TOWER HILL TOWER OF LONDON place where many political prisoners also tragedy succeeded tragedy, and the were executed.

Townsend

CHARLES HENRY

Toxicology

that branch of medicine which treats of poisons and their antidotes, or of the morbid and deleterious effects of excessive and inordinate doses and quantities of medicine.

TOYNBEE

Trachea

or WINDPIPE

Trachea

or WINDPIPE may be produced by pressure on the nervous trunk, or the inferior laryngeal fibers. Constriction may also depend on undue muscular contraction, the seat thereof being immediately above the bifurcation of the trachea. Foreign bodies occasionally pass through the larnyx into the trachea, and the accident is a formidable one, which not infrequently proves fatal.

Traducianism

the doctrine that the human soul, as well as the body, is produced by natural generation. St.

Augustine seems to have inclined to this belief without committing himself to it or, on the other hand, pronouncing in favor of the opinion immediately created by God and infused opinion that the soul was into the embryo when sufficiently organized.