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an undue retention of the fæces or their imperfect evacuation. When the morbid affection is but slight it is of little moment. In most cases, however, there is headache, more rarely vertigo; while if the disease be protracted and severe, colic, hæmorrhoids, cutaneous eruptions, hysteria, epilepsy, or even ileus or enteritis, the last two fatal diseases, may be the result.
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a name given to the first convention of the delegates of the French nation (1787-1791) to distinguish it from the legislative assembly sem of of 1791 1791. It drew up and obtained the acceptance of the first of the famous revolutionary constitutions. The Constituent Assembly of 1848 had a similar aim.
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in the United States, an assembly of delegates elected by popular vote to prepare or revise the constitution of a State. The 13 original States were admitted into the Union by the act of ratifying the Federal Constitution of 1787; the others have been received after the passage of enabling acts by Congress, and the approval by it of drafts of proposed constitutions. The first duty of a territorial candidate for statehood after the adoption of its enabling act is to call a Constitutional Convention and prepare a constitution, which must conform to the provisions of the Federal Constitution and amendments, and to the spirit of subsequent legislation by Congress. On the filing in Washington of a certificate of adoption of a constitution by the popular vote of the people in the territory, the President of the United States issues a proclamation announcing the admission of the territory into the Union as a State. Subsequently, if deemed necessary or advantageous, the Legislature may authorize Constitutional a Convention for the purpose of revising the Constitution. At the close of the Civil War each of the States formerly in the Confederacy was obliged to hold a Constitutional Convention to prepare new constitution, recognizing the a amendments to the Federal Constitution that had been adopted by the Northern States as a consequence of the war, with those portions of national legislation which were designed to be general in their application.
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the communication of a disease by contact with the person laboring under it, as distinguished from infection, used to signify its transmission by means of the air without actual personal contact with the diseased person. But sometimes the word contagion is used in both of these senses, and is divided into immediate or contactical contagion, that produced by actual contact, and mediate or remote contagion, communicated by the air.
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those diseases which may be contracted by the healthy from the sick, either by direct contact with an affected part, or by indirect contact through bodily excretions and exhalations. Typical contagious diseases are Spanish influenza, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, mumps, smallpox, typhus fever, erysipelas, and bubonic plague. Diseases of this class are a menace to public health, and in all civilized nations stringent methods are used to prevent their spread, and the sufferers are usually placed in quarantine. In the United States the enactment of quarantine laws by the several States is provided in the Federal Constitution. In most States there is a State board of health which either divides the State into distriets for administration, or else delegates its authority to county, township, or city officials. Before the World War there was a well-established system of international quarantine operating under code a drawn by Sir Shenstone Baker in 1879, which was approved by the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and many other nations.
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- One of the Quest" versions of the legend of the Holy Grail (q.v.) compiled by various authors. It tells how Perceval was reared to the life of a forester by his mother; but forsaking her he becomes a member of the Court of King Arthur. Thence he goes forth as a knight-errant, and his numerous adventures are recited. During these, he meets with certain mysteries, but returns to the court. The adventures of Gauvain, another of the knights are fully detailed. Perceval, himself, sets forth again, and wanders about for five years in a very godless state of mind. One Good Friday he meets with a band of pilgrims, who remonstrate with him for riding armed on a holy day; and he turns aside to confess to a hermit who turns out to be his uncle. From him he learns that only the sinless can find the Grail, and that he has sinned in abandoning his mother, and thus causing her death. In a continuation of the legend by a different author, Perceval appears to continue his search, but apparently unsuccessfully; and finally, by yet another compiler we are told that Perceval after many adventures marries Blanchfleure. The nature and origin of the Grail are described in these continuations of the legend.
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HOUSE OF, this younger branch of the princely French house of Condé took its name from the small town of Conti, near Amiens, and sprang from Armand de Bourbon, brother of the "Great Condé"; born in 1629; died in 1666. The most remarkable member of the family was FRANÇOIS LOUIS, Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon and Conti, born in 1664. He took a brilliant part in the victories of Steinkirk and Neerwinden, and Massillon pronounced his his funeral oration. He died in 1709. The last of the House of Conti was LOUIS FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, born in 1734; died in Spain in 1814.
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the large, unbroken tracts of land on the earth, whether altogether or entirely disconnected, are included under this name. Thus Europe ope and Asia together, Africa, North America, South America, and Australia, may all be thus regarded. The word is also applied to the mainland of Europe, as distinguished from the British Islands.
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THE DARK. See AFRICA.
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pertaining or relating to a continent; as a continental system. Belonging or relating to the mainland of Europe, in contradistinction to the islands belonging thereto, more especially Great Britain; as, a continental tour. Relating, or pertaining to, the American colonies confederated during the Revolutionary War; as, the Continental Congress.
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