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Scrope, "have been exposed a short time to the weather, they scale off at a touch into numerous concentric coats, like those of a bulbous root, inclosing a compact nucleus. The laminae of this nucleus have not been so much loosened by decomposition; but the application of a ruder blow will produce a still further exfoliation." Dike in valley, near Brazen Head, Madeira.
In my own case there was a rapid exfoliation, as we call it, of the skin, a loss and renewal of the outer layer of the cuticle. As a result of this, the sense of touch became for a while more acute, and was at times unpleasantly delicate.
An exfoliation of the rock itself you would call the houses that seem to grow there so identical is the colour and character. I should like to visit Ancona again when there is a little air and shadow. We stayed a week, as it was, living upon fish and cold water. . . . The one dated Florence, December 16, is interesting with reference to Mr. Browning's attitude when he wrote the letters to Mr.
Necrosis is the term applied to the death of a tangible portion of bone, and the dead portion when separated is called a sequestrum. The term exfoliation is sometimes employed to indicate the separation or throwing off of a superficial sequestrum.
On literary réclame, he says much that is true if not the whole truth, in the apophthegm for instance, 'You have to become famous before you can secure the attention which would give fame. Biffen, it is true, is a somewhat fantastic figure of an idealist, but Gissing cherished this grotesque exfoliation from a headline by Dickens and later in his career we shall find him reproducing one of Biffen's ideals with a singular fidelity.
Opinions differ regarding it, some considering it of septic origin, while others believe it to be nothing but pemphigus foliaceus. Kaposi regards it as an aggravation of the physiologic exfoliation of the new-born. Elliott of New York reports two cases with a review of the subject, but none have been reported in England.
And Professor Drummond, in his interesting account of his African travels, describes certain insects which render themselves indistinguishable either in color or in form from the branchings and exfoliation of certain grasses upon which they feed. Deception therefore becomes a chief resource of the weak, while violence is that of the strong.
But of all instances perhaps the most remarkable is one to be seen on the west bank of the Nile at Philæ, where a ridge of granite 100 feet high, has had its outer parts reduced in course of time to a collection of boulder-shaped masses, varying from say a yard in diameter to six or eight feet, each one of which shows in progress an exfoliation of successively-formed shells of decomposed granite: most of the masses having portions of such shells partially detached.
My uncle Toby's wound was near well, and as soon as the surgeon recovered his surprize, and could get leave to say as much he told him, 'twas just beginning to incarnate; and that if no fresh exfoliation happened, which there was no sign of, it would be dried up in five or six weeks.
"From some odd corner of the mind Beats time to nothing in the brain." But suddenly some experience, or perhaps the exfoliation of the outer self through the falling away of the withered years, shall open to him its vital and cosmical significance.
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