Addison's Disease
the name of a peculiar skin disease, first described by Dr. Thomas Addison , an English physician. Its symptoms are anæmia, excessive debility, loss of appetite , faintness, flabbiness of the muscles, and a dingy brownish discoloration of the skin. The patient generally suffers from dyspepsia, vomiting, and nervous troubles. disease has sometimes been ated by careful nursing, but no cure for it has been found, and in the end it is invariably fatal.
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Ade
GEORGE, an American journalist and author, born in Indiana in 1866 . He has published " Arte: a Story of the Streets and Town"; "Pink Marsh" (1897), a dialect story, etc. Later he established a reputation as a satirical humorist by his " Fables in Slang" and wrote many successful plays and musical comedies, such as "The Sho-Gun," "Slim Princess" and "Sultan of Sulu," etc. He was made a trustee of Purdue University and a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Ade, George
George (1866-), an American journalist and author. His witty Fables in Slang is the best known of his writings. He is also the author of Artie, of a comic opera, The Sultan of Sulu, and of several successful comedies, among them, Peggy from Paris, The College Widow, and The Fair Co-ed.
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Adelphi College
an institution of higher learning in Brooklyn, N. Y., formerly known as the Adelphi Academy. Since 1912 both men and women have been admitted for the degree of A. B. There were, in the year 1919-1920, 502 students and 31 teachers. The The president is F. D. Blodgett.
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Adelsberg
a town in the province of Carniola, Austria; 24 miles S. W. of Laibach. The grotto of Adelsberg, over 5 miles long, is famous for its stalactites, stalagmites, and subterranean streams. Pop. about 4,500.
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Aden
a'den, an important seaport on the southern coast of Arabia. The city occupies the crater of an extinct volcano. Volcanic bluffs, the lip of the old crater, encircle the city, rising to a height of 2,000 feet. Aden was a depot of trade in Roman times. It is now the seat of government, not only for British territory in Arabia, but for British Somaliland, a strip of seacoast wrested from Abyssinia. Recent fortresses have rendered the port one of the strongest fortifications in the world, almost ranking with Gibraltar. Aden is the center of the Arabian caravan trade. On an average 767 loaded camels swing into the town daily. Each is loaded with from 600 to 900 pounds of coffee, fodder, grain, fruits, vegetables, wood, charcoal, and water. There are no wagons, no horses, only camels, many from a distance of seven hundred miles. The trade of Abyssinia centers at Aden. Aden exports coffee, gum arabic, tobacco, hides, and other local products. The opening of the Suez Canal made Aden a coaling station on the way to India. Aden is a variation of the word Eden, meaning Paradise, the name being given on account of its fine climate, perpetual sunshine, and pleasant sea breezes. The population of the city and immediate vicinity is about 45,000. When it is 12 o'clock at noon in the Mississippi Valley, it is 9 P. M. at Aden. See Arabia ; Suez Canal
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Aden
a peninsula and town belonging to Great Britain, on the S. W. coast of Arabia, 105 miles E. of the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the entrance to the Red Sea. The peninsula is a mass of volcanic rocks, 5 miles long from E. to W., and
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Aden (GULF OF the portion of sea)
GULF OF, the portion of sea lying between the N. coast of Aden, terminating E. with Ras Jerdaffon (Cape Gardafui), and the S. coast of Arabia, between Ras Arrah and Ras Agab; the former in latitude 12° 40′ N., longitude 44° E.; the latter in latitude 15° 15′ N., longitude 51° 30′ E. Its length from E. to W. is thus about 480 miles; its breadth from N. to S. varying from 160 to 200 miles.
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Adendum Circle
The distance or space between the pitch line of a gear and the circle touching the ends of the teeth.
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Adenitis
inflammation of the lymphatic glands. It almost always exists with angeioleucitis-inflammation of the lymphatic vessels. It is produced when an open wound of any kind comes in contact with irritating or poisonous matter, generally from without, though sometimes also generated within itself.
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Adenoids
a growth of spongy tissue in the region of the pharynx, lying above and back of the soft palate. The growth wth begins at the age of three months and during the first three years is of a soft, spongy nature. It becomes harder and more fibrous as age increases. The growth becomes detrimental to health when it is unusual in size. It is now a very general custom to remove it as early as possible. The presence of overgrown adenoids affects the child mentally and physically and their removal in most cases causes immediate improvement.
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Adersbach Rocks
a range of mountains in the district of Glatz, valley of the Riesengebirge, Silesia, remarkable as being divided, for several miles, into detached perpendicular columns by fissures from 600 to 1,200 feet in depth. considerable
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Adherbal
Son of Micipsa and grandson of Mesinissa, was besieged in Citra, and put to death by Jugurtha , after vainly imploring the aid of Rome, B. C. IT2. 2026 Editor's Note: Following the death of his father Micipsa, Adherbal was forced into a civil war for the Numidian throne against his adoptive brother Jugurtha . Adherbal's eventual defeat and execution in 112 BC triggered the Jugurthine War between Rome and Numidia. This conflict was fueled by Roman public outrage over Jugurtha's use of bribery to influence the Roman Senate and avoid retribution for Adherbal's death. (Ed: BR 2026-06-04)
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Adige
a river of north Italy, which has its source in the Alps of Tyrol, above Brixen, where it is called Etsch; it enters Italy by Bolzano and the valley of Trento, parallel to and for the most part about most frequented recreation grounds of the 6 miles from, the lake of Garda, then, turning abruptly toward the E., passes through Verona and Legnano; it afterward enters the great Delta, between the Brenta and the Po, and, forming several branches, empties es its waters into the Adriatic Sea. It is a deep and rapid stream, dividing, by its course, the old Venetian territories from Lombardy The valley of the Adige saw proper. much fighting during the Napoleonic wars and again during the World War. ADIPIC ACID (formula: C6H10O4 (CH₃)" (COOH)2), an organic diatomic of fats by nitric acid.
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