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There is also an old record of a ball lodging near the sella turcica for over a year, the patient dying suddenly of an entirely different accident. Fabricius Hildanus relates the history of an injury, in which, without causing any uncomfortable symptoms, a ball rested between the skull and dura for six months.
The dura, or dura mater, a thick, dense, and tough membrane which lines the bony cavities and forms supporting partitions. The pia, or pia mater, a thin, delicate membrane, containing numerous blood vessels, that covers the surface of the brain and cord. The arachnoid, a membrane of loose texture, that lies between the dura and the pin.
"An oak is not felled at one chop." A further variation of the same idea tells us how: "Little strokes fell great oaks," In connection with which may be quoted the words of Ovid to the same effect: "Quid magis est durum saxo? Quid mollius unda? Dura taneu molli saxa cavantur aqua?" Then, again, it is commonly said that: "Oaks may fall when seeds brave the storm."
The gates of Dura, by treachery and surprise, were burst open; and as soon as Chosroes had stained his cimeter with the blood of the inhabitants, he dismissed the ambassador of Justinian to inform his master in what place he had left the enemy of the Romans.
Nebuchadnezzar soon forgot God, for he set up a great golden image on the plain of Dura, and called a feast of dedication. He had all his princes and governors there, and his captains, and judges, and rulers. The musicians were there also, with many kinds of instruments, and a herald was there who cried in a loud voice the command of the king. It was a call to worship the golden image.
At three-fourths of the width of the bone, the fracture ran parallel with the sagittal suture, and this large portion was depressed upon the tunics of the brain, the dura mater being considerably lacerated.
What was the conduct of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, when Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image in the plain of Dura, and commanded all people, nations, and languages, to fall down and worship it? Did these men do right in disobeying the law of their sovereign? Let their miraculous deliverance from the burning fiery furnace, answer; Dan. iii.
The day he arrived at the hospital, having not eaten for several days at the end of several months of delusions of poverty the case was called "acute melancholia," and the cause of death assigned was starvation. The liver weighed 1102 grams and was fatty. There was a diffuse thickening and clouding of the pia mater, and the dura was firmly adherent everywhere to the skull.
BRITISH. Coal-measures of South Wales, with underclays inclosing Stigmaria. FOREIGN. Coal-field of Saarbruck, with Archegosaurus. BRITISH. Mountain limestone of Wales and South of England. FOREIGN. Mountain limestone of Belgium. BRITISH. Yellow sandstone of Dura Den, with Holoptychius, etc. FOREIGN. Clymenien-kalk and Cypridinen-schiefer of Germany.
The count Arinthseus had been sent with an army to the Armenian frontier about the same time that Terentius had invaded Iberia, and had received positive instructions to help the Armenians if Sapor molested them. It was in vain that the Persian monarch appealed to the terms of the treaty of Dura Rome dismissed his ambassadors with contempt, and made no change in her line of procedure.
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