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Dandy, Walter Edward

(Encyclopedia)Dandy, Walter Edward, 1886–1946, American neurosurgeon. Having studied with Harvey Cushing at Johns Hopkins, Dandy soon made himself a notable figure in the developing specialty of neurosurgery. His...

High Wycombe

(Encyclopedia)High Wycombe wĭkˈəm [key], city, Buckinghamshire, S England. The city is well known for its ...

Gross, Samuel David

(Encyclopedia)Gross, Samuel David, 1805–84, American surgeon, b. near Easton, Pa., M.D. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1828. He taught at the medical colleges of several universities and at Jefferson fr...

Muret

(Encyclopedia)Muret mürāˈ [key], town (1990 pop. 18,604), Haute-Garonne dept., S France. It is an agricultural market and produces foundry products, surgical instruments, and bricks. In 1213, Simon de Montfort, ...

Azusa

(Encyclopedia)Azusa əzo͞oˈsə [key], city (2020 pop. 50,000), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the San Gabriel valley; inc. 1898. It is a residential and industrial city in a citrus-fru...

Kazanluk

(Encyclopedia)Kazanluk käˌzänləkˈ [key], town (1993 pop. 60,019), central Bulgaria, in the Kazanluk valley, a region famous for its rose fields. Kazanluk developed in the 17th cent. as a manufacturing center f...

Praetorius, Michael

(Encyclopedia)Praetorius, Michael prētôrˈēəs [key], 1571–1621, German composer and musicographer, whose name originally was Schultheiss. He was a prolific composer, his Musae Sioniae (9 vol., 1605–11) alon...

Billerica

(Encyclopedia)Billerica bĭlrĭˈkə [key], town (2020 pop. 42,119), Middlesex co., NE Mass., on the Concord ...

Zlatoust

(Encyclopedia)Zlatoust zlətəo͞ostˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 208,000), E European Russia, on the Ai River in the S Urals. It is a rail terminus and an old metallurgical center. Besides steel mills, the city has me...

Sanctorius

(Encyclopedia)Sanctorius săngktôrˈēəs [key], Ital. Santorio, 1561–1636, Italian physiologist. He was a professor at Padua (1611–24). By his quantitative experiments in temperature, respiration, and weight,...