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born in Staff ords hire i Hecame under the influence of John Wesle} sent him to North America as a mi ionary i He became in 1784 first bishop of the newl Methodist Church in the United State died in Virginia in 1816. and especially 4. lumbriooides, th round worm, a convenient type of NEMA It has a cylindrical body tapering at bot at the anterior is the small head with mouth. This leads to a muscular cesc continued backwards as a wide tube; thi 238 oad opens end ring through vascular is after to usually enter or the ten inches the are uncertain introduced worm do rule, with worm ascribed the reliable. in may remedies. mended Atlantic north-west belonging the Ascension British 1815, victualling for length miles, 2,870 on the pepper gooseberries plentiful, myriads officer authority is day, commemorated Christ to celestial of ledge latitude, minate. some wich, ( 216 Ascension. at the anus slightly in front of the posterior of the body. The nervous system consists of a round the mouth, and six cords running back the body. There is neither heart nor system. ‘The full course of development unknown. The ova are expelled from the body, and being hatched the embryos gain admittance the alimentary canal of their future host. They remain in the small intestine, but they ma the stomach and escape through the mouth perforate the walls of the intestine and even of abdomen, and cause absce es. The female is to fourteen inches, and the male four to six long. The Ascaris lumbricoides is one of commonest internal parasites in man. Children more commonly affected than adults, but it is in what manner the worm is originally into the alimentary canal. The female produces a large number of eggs, but these not develop in the human body, indeed, as a there is no suspicion that anything is wrong the child that harbours an ascaris, until the is expelled. All sorts of symptoms have been to the presence of ascarides, but as far as round worm is concerned these are most un- As a rule the ascaris occurs singly, but some cases a large number may be present and call for the administration of vermifuge Of these santonin is the drug recomfor the expulsion of round worms. Ascension, 2 small volcanic island in the (lat. 7° 55’ N., long. 14° 25’ W.), 760 miles of St. Helena, 960 miles from Africa, and to Great Britain. It owes its name to fact that it was discovered by John de Nova on Day, 1502. It was occupied by the when Napoleon was sent to St. Helena in and has since served as a coaling station and place for the navy, and as a sanatorium invalids from the west coast of Africa. Its is eight miles, and its average breadth six and the central peak rises to a height of feet. Scarcely a blade of verdure exists save Green Mountain and in the gardens kept up by small staff of officials, sailors, and marines, but and castor-oil trees, tomatoes, and Cape are said to be indigenous. Turtles are and deposit their eggs on the shore, as do of sea birds. The commandant, a naval appointed by the Admiralty, has absolute as“on board a man-of-war. George town the name of the little settlement. Pop., 266. Ascension Day, sometimes called Holy Thursthe fortieth day after Easter, on which is by the Church the ascension of into heaven. Ascension, Ricut, one of the arcs required expre the position of a heavenly body in the sphere. It corresponds to the longitude a place on the earth’s surface, and with a know of the declination, which corresponds to the exact position of the body is deter- Just as terrestrial longitude requires fixed meridian, such as that through Green as a standard from which to measure the ) position declination which measured. through pa es ascension minutes, for stant [ DECLINATION. signifying therefore adopted nence “‘mortify [HERMIT.] Car thus i ans) as nary to suffering, Being themselves [{ BUDDHISM. town Germany, fort. the the royal foundation “Stiftskirche.” and straw-plaiting, the Yorkshire Cambridge, in became first Elizabeth. Schoolmaster, and of (1550-2) at Latin he the Queen Court spirit, received 1559. in summed work.was health stated and genuine Ascham. of other meridians, so must there be a fixed circle or meridian in the heavens, from the right ascension of any star shall be The point on the celestial equator which this standard declination circle is known as the first point in Aries. Right may be expre ed as an angle in degrees, and seconds, or as the sidereal time taken the object to culminate, reckoned from the in the first point in Aries traverses the meridian. ] Ascetic (Gk. askésis, exercise). Aterm properly one who is in training for a race, and abstains from certain foods, etc. It was by the early Christians to signify abstifrom food, wine, marriage, etc., in order to the flesh” and lead a stricter spiritual life. Monastic orders (eg. the Trappists and have often practised asceticism, such abstinence from animal food or even from ord i conversation. The word is now applied loosely all devotees who voluntarily undergo bodily either to gain the favour of a Divine or Beings, or (more frequently) to free from the temptations of the flesh. ] Aschaffenburg (anc. Hercynia), a fortified in the district of Unterfranken, Bavaria, on the river Main, 24 miles from Frank- The cathedral, a fine building, dates from tenth, and the Castle of Johannes berg from seventeenth century. There are a Lyceum, library, Capuchin monastery, and a Catholic called the ‘“In sign is Collegiata,” or Some shipbuilding is carried on, there are manufactories of paper, woollens, and tobacco. It has a station on Bavarian State Railway. Ascham, RoGeEr, was born at Kirkby Wiske in in 1515 A.p. At St. John’s College, he took to Greek and Luther an ism, but spite of these drawbacks got a fellowship, public orator, and was appointed tutor to Prince Edward and then to Prince In 1544 he wrote his To wop hilus the or Partitions of Shooting, a curious interesting treatise on the history and practice archery. He spent three years in Germany as secretary to the English Amba ador the court of Charles V., and returned to act as secretary to King Edward, on whose death contrived to keep his post under Mary, and at acce ion of Elizabeth became reader to the as well. Though his life was thus spent at he appears to have preserved an independent never soliciting favours. However, he # prebendary stall in York Cathedral in Four years later he wrote his Schoolmaster, which he explained his educational method— up in the words docendo disces. The not published till after his death. His began to fail when he was fifty, and it is that he impaired his fortune by gambling cock-fighting. He died of ague in 1568, to the grief of Elizabeth. 239 ( 217 Aschersleben.