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where on learning the neglected state of the lepers, he volunteered to establish himself among them; and from 1877 onward became physician of their souls’ and bodies. In 1885 the malady appeared in him; yet he continued unabated his heroic labors till near his | death, April 10, 1889. | | Damietta, a town of Lower Egypt, on the right bank of the chief E. mouth of the Nile, about 8 miles from its mouth. It is the terminus of a branch railway from Cairo. The cambric known as dimity received its name from Damietta, where it was first manufactured. Pop. 31,515. The existing town was erected after 1251, but, prior to that, a city of the same name (more anciently ‘Tam i a this) stood more to the S. Damocles, 2 sycophant at the court of Dionysius of Syracuse in the 4th century B. c. When he was one day extolling the happy condition of princes, the tyrant invited him to a sumptuous entertainment, but caused a naked sword to be suspended over his head by a single hair; a sufficiently significant symbol of the fear in which tyrants may live.