These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Neuilly, Neurasthenia, Neuritis.
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.
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a disease of the nerves caused by prolonged grief or anxiety, serious shock or anything which exhausts the reserves of nervous strength. The disease most frequently attacks persons below 40 years of age, but it is not necessarily confined to The symptoms are headache, 40,000. them. mental depression, and gastro-intestinal distress. In the latter stages of the disease cardiac palpitation, feebleness of circulation, and nervous indigestion appear. On the mental side the weakness of the nerves causes loss of memory, attempt to concentrate causes while the painful headaches and complete exhausunrefreshing, tion. Sleep is broken and un and the patient suffers almost as much from imaginary as from genuine distresses. Neurasthenia is a disease which comes slowly and has a protractel course, brought to comthe patient never being plete recovery. The best remedy to cause a cessation of some of the symptoms is complete rest and freedom from worry. In many cases the patient is forced to change his occupation and an entire change of scene is often beneficial. Much is dependent on the mental attitude of the patient toward the doctor, as complete confidence in the doctor is essential to recovery.
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a term applied to inflam- The symptoms are mation of the nerves. The those of neuralgia, with impairment of sensation, or localized paralysis, according as sensory or motor nerves are affected.
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in entomology, an order of the class Insecta, in which the older entomologists included all insects possessing four membranous wings, more or less elaborately veined, but without the peculiar arrangement of cells which occurs in the Hymenoptera.
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a name common to disof the nervous system unaceases companied by any discoverable alteration in structure, that is to say, functional diseases of the nervous system. Hysteria, for example, is a neurosis; catalepsy, some forms of mental disease, such as melancholia, various forms of neuralgia and spasm, are called neuroses.
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a term introduced into medicine to indicate some relationship to the nervous system. Thus a neurotic disease is a nervous disease. Medicines that affect the nervous system, as opium, strychnine, etc., are called neurotics.
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in botany, a flower having neither stamens nor pistils; as in those occupying the outermost flowers of the head of Centaurea cyanus, the margin of the cymes in garlen plants of Viburnum, Hydrangea, or in the whole cyme of Viburnum opulus. In grammar, a noun of neuter gender. In entomology, a sterile female, a worker.
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in chemistry, possessing the neutral condition. In international law, that condition or attitude of a country or state in which it does not take part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other countries. A neutral state is allowed to supply to either of the belligerents any supplies or stores which are not contraband of It may also enter into treaties war. or engagements with either side, provided such treaties or engagements are unconnected with the subject of the war. Armed neutrality, the state of a country or nation which holds itself armed in readiness to resist any aggression of either of the belligerents between whom it is neutral. See BELLIGERENT. NEUTRAL TINT, a dull grayish hue, having the character of none of the etc.
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a town of Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine, 8 miles below Coblenz; formerly capital of the principality of Wied. The castle of the princes has a beautiful garden, in which are many Roman antiquities unearthed in the vicinity. The town contains an important institute of the Moravian Brethren, and there are some minor manufactures. Pop. about 20,000.
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a river of Russia, flowing W. from Lake Ladoga to the Bay of Cronstadt, in the Gulf of Finland. It passes through St. Petersburg, and carries to the sea an enormous volume of water (greater than that of the Rhine) from the lakes Ladoga, Onega, Ilmen, and others. Its total length, with windings, is about 40 miles; in places it is over 4,000 feet wide, elsewhere the channel is narrowed to 180 feet; and in one or two places the navigation is embarrassed by reefs and rapids. It is frozen on an average from Nov. 25 to April 21. By the Ladoga canal the Neva communicates with the vast water system of the Volga, and thus it may be said to join the Baltic with the Caspian Sea.
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UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational, non-sectarian institution at Reno. The following statistics were compiled at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 48; students, 379; vollibrary, 40,000; production funds, $305,737; number of graduates, 586; president, W. E. Clark, Ph. Ph. D.
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a city of Missouri, the county-seat of Vernon co., 103 miles S. of Kansas City, and is situated on the Missouri Pacific, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads. Within its limits are several important mineral springs. It contains a Roman Catholic convent for the insane school, a State hospital other public and semi - public It is the center of an imagricultural and stock - raising It has zinc smelters, flour and lumber mills. Pop. (1910) 7,175; (1920) 7,139.
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the capital of the French department of Nièvre, formerly of . is picturesquely seated on a hillside, 600 feet the province of Nivernais It above sea-level, at the influx of the Nièvre to the Loire, 159 miles S. S. E. of Paris. The Noviodunum of Cæsar, it has been the seat of a bishop since 506; its beautiful cathedral, restored in 1879, belongs mainly to the 13th century. The stately court house, dating from 1475, was formerly the castle the Dukes Nevers. The city contains a fine public garden, a bridge of 14 arches over the Loire, a medieval gateway, and a tricommemorating umphal arch (1746) prise the Fontenoy. The industries compris rise manufacture of cannon, iron cables and chains, porcelain (introduced by Italians about 1565). 28,000. 1565). Pop. about
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