Each of these 16 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
A boatman of Mitylene, in Lesbos. He received a box of ointment from Venus , who had presented herself to him in the form of an old woman. When he had rubbed himself with the unguent he became beautiful, and Sappho , the celebrated poetess, became enamored of him. For a short time he devoted himself to her, but soon treated her with coldness, upon which she threw herself into the sea and was drowned.
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a book containing the prescriptions for the preparation of medicines recognized by the general body of practitioners. Up till 1863 separate pharmacopeias were issued by the Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. Since then a British pharmacopœia, issued by the medical council of the kingdom, is recognized by the whole medical profession of Great than in the other species. They feed on Britain. There is also an American pharmacopœia.
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or PHARMACEUTICS, the art of preparing, compounding, and combining substances for medical purposes; the art of the apothecary.
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King of Bosporus; son of Mithridates VI., King of the Cimmerian Pontus, and revolted with the army against his father, who slew himself in despair, 63 b. c. Pharnaces cultivated the friendship of the Romans, and in the war between Cæsar and Pompey, he remained neutral; but Cæsar declared war against and defeated him 47 B. c., after a struggle of three days only. It was on that occasion that Cæsar wrote to the Roman senate, in allusion to his easy triumph: "I came, saw, and conquered" (Veni, vidi, vici). Pharnaces died shortly afterward.
a King of Pontus; the son of Pontus, the son of Mithridates V., and grandfather of Mithridates the Great. He made war against the King of Pergamus, and reigned between 190- 157 b. c.
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now FERSALA, a town of Thessaly, to the S. of Larissa, on a branch of the Salambria, and accordingly in the part of Thessaly restored to Greece in 1881. The district, Pharsalia, is historically notable mainly for Cæsar's great victory over Pompey on Aug. 9, 48 b. c.
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the dilated commencement of the gullet. There may be a diffused erysipelatous inflammation, an ordinary or a syphilitic ulcer of the pharynx, or foreign bodies may become imbedded in it.
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wombat, the sole genus of the family Phascolomyidæ. Tail rudimentary; stomach simple; cӕcum very short, wide, and with a peculiar vermiform appendage. Three species are known; they may be divided into two groups: (1) P. wombat and P. platyrhinus, the common and broad-nosed wombats; and (2) P. latifrons, the hairy-nosed wombat. They are terrestrial, burrowing animals, vegetable feeders, from the S. of Australia, Tasmania, and the islands of Bass' Straits.
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or PHASIS, in astronomy, etc. In physiology, the several changes one of the gradual changes undergone by the moon in passing from an unillumined state (new moon) through that of a continually broadening crescent to a complete orb (full moon), and back to new moon again. Similar phases are undergone by the inferior planets, Mercury and Venus, though, owing to their small size and the excessive brightness of the latter planet under the telescope, the phenomenon is not so easily seen. In mineralogy, transparent green quartz. In which the human and other organisms undergo in the progress from birth to maturity, and thence again to decline and death.
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in ancient geography, a river in Colchis, now called Rion or Faz. It rises in the Caucasus, and flows W. into the Euxine near the ancient city of Phasis.
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JAMES DUVAL, United States Senator from California. Born in San Francisco April, 1861; graduated from St. Ignatius College, 1881. Al. though a lawyer, most of his time has been occupied with the affairs of his city, state and nation. He took a prominent part in the relief work which took after the great fire in San Francisco, and from 1896-1902 was mayor of that city. In 1913 President Wilson appointed him special commissioner to deal with Santo Domingo affairs. In 1915 the Democrats of California sent him to the Senate. took place
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a drug prepared from like antipyrin, of service in stilling pain and securing rest in cases of severe headcarbolic acid, valuable in fevers, and, aches, insomnia, and nervousness.
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or PHENIX, in astronomy, one of the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere, N. of the bright In botany, star Achernar in Eridanus. the typical genus of the family Phœnicidæ. Habitat, northern Africa and southern Asia. Known species about P. dactylifera is the date palm. P. sylvestris is the wild date, a tree very common, both wild and cultivated, in India. The fibrous leaflets and the fibers from the petioles are manufactured into mats, ropes, and baskets; sugar is made from the sap of the tree. The juice of in sandy P. furinifera, a small species parts of India, yields sago; its leaves are of P. used in mat making, and those paludosa, which grows in the Sunderbunds, for rough ropes and thatching. species The fruit of P. acaulis, a stemless from the Sub-Himalayas and central In- . In entomoldia, is eaten by the natives geometer moth, ogy, Cidaria ribesaria, a larva of which feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes. In mythology, a which fabulous female bird of Arabia, was feigned to live for 500 or 600 years herself in the desert, when she built for funeral pyre of wood and aromatic gums, to which she set fire by the fanagain in youth and freshness. Hence immortality. In heraldry the bird is Figuratively, a paragon; a person or thing of
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a name for CARBOLIC ACID (q. v.). elion; according to legend, own, who
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a powerful city of Thessaly, Alcestis, and afterward of political consenear Mount Pelion; accordi the ancient royal seat of Admetus and quence under "tyrants" of its ow repeatedly attempted to make themselves masters of Thessaly.
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Son of Cretheus and Tyro, father of Admetus and Lycurgus , and founder of Pherae in Thessaly. Admetus, as the son of Pheres, is called Pheretiades.
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Trans., London, 1678. Concerning a movement that measures Time after a peculiar manner; being a Clock descendant on an Inclined Plane. Rev. Maurice Wheeler, M. A., Phil. Trans., London, 1684. Horological Disquisitions concerning the Nature of Time, etc. John Smith, 12mo, London, 1694. A second edition, London, 1708.
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