DROGHEDA 



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DROPPED WRIST 



Drogheda, EABL OF. Irish title 

 borne since 1661 by the family of 

 Moore. The family traces its de- 

 scent to two brothers, Edward and 

 Thomas, who settled in Ireland in 

 the time of Elizabeth. Edward ob- 

 tained some former monastic lands 

 in co. Louth, and his descendant, 

 Garrett, was made a baron and a 

 viscount by James I. President of 

 Munster and an Irish M.P., he had 

 previously served Elizabeth against 

 the rebels. His son Henry, 2nd Vis- 

 count Moore, married a daughter of 

 Viscount Loftus, whose son Henry 

 inherited from the Moores estates 

 in Kildare. 



In 1661 Henry Moore was created 

 earl of Drogheda, perhaps as a 

 reward for his father's loyalty to 

 Charles I, and from him the present 

 earl is descended. Charles, the 6th 

 earl (1730-1821), entered the army 

 and rose to be a field-marshal and 

 master-general of the ordnance. In 

 1791 he was made marquess of 

 Drogheda, and in 1801 a baron of 

 the United Kingdom. When his 

 grandson, the 3rd marquess, died 

 in 1892, the marquessate became 

 extinct, but the earldom passed 

 to a cousin, a descendant of the 

 5th earl. In 1908 Henry Charles 

 Ponsonby Moore (b. 1884) became 

 the 10th earl. His seat is Moore 

 Abbey, co. Kildare, wherein his 

 estates mainly lie ; his eldest son 

 is known as Viscount Moore. 

 Pron. Dro-heda. 



Drohobycz. Town in the Gali- 

 cian portion of Poland, 17m. W. of 

 Stryj. It has a fine Gothic church 

 and is a rly. junction for lines to 

 the neighbouring oil wells at Bory- 

 slaw. Pop.20,000; 36p.c.are Poles, 

 33 p.c. Germans, and the rest 

 Ruthenes. Nearly half the inhabit- 

 ants are Jews. 



Droitwich. Mun. bor. and mar- 

 ket town of Worcestershire, Eng- 

 land. It stands on the Solwarpe, 

 5| m. N.E. of Worcester and 126 m. 

 N.W. of London, and is served 

 by the G.W. and Mid. Rlys., while 

 a canal connects it with the Severn. 

 It is a market for agricultural 

 produce, but the chief industry is 

 the production of rock salt. It is 

 chiefly known, however, as a water- 

 ing-place. Its brine springs have 

 radio - active properties and are 

 efficacious for rheumatism, neuritis, 

 gout, etc. There are fine baths, 

 hotels, etc., for visitors, and a 

 ptiblic park. Droitwich has two 

 old churches, S. Andrew's and 

 S. Peter's. In the older part of the 

 town the ground has subsided a 

 good deal owing to the pumping 

 out of the brine. It became a 

 corporate town in 1554, and is 

 now governed by a mayor and 

 corporation. Market day, Fri. 

 Pop. 4,146. 



Droitwich, Worcestershire. Interior 

 swimming bath 



Drome. Department of France. 

 It lies in the S.E. of the country 

 and has an area of 2,532 sq. m. It 

 is a mountainous region, especially 

 in the Alpine E. The Rhone forms 

 its western boundary, while the 

 Isere, the Drome, and other tribu- 

 taries also drain it. Agriculture is 

 the chief industry. Wheat is grown 

 in the valleys, especially in the fer- 

 tile district of Valloire. Vines are 

 widely cultivated, and olives, figs, 

 and mulberries are important crops. 

 Silkworms are largely produced. 

 Many cattle are reared on the ex- 

 tensive uplands. Valence is the 

 capital and other towns are Die, 

 Nyons, Crest, Romans, and Monte- 

 limar. It is divided into four arron- 

 dissements, and before 1790 was 

 part of the provinces of Dauphine 

 and Provence. Pop. 290,894. 



Dromedary. In zoology, the 

 one-humped camel (Camelus dro- 

 medarius) of Arabia and N. Africa. 

 In common speech the term is used 

 for riding camels as distinguished 

 from the heavier baggage animals. 

 The late Latin name dromedarius 

 (classical form dramas) comes from 

 Gr. dramas, running. See Camel. 



Dromio. Name of two comic 

 characters, twin brothers, in Shake- 

 speare' s The Comedy of Errors ( q. v. ). 



Dromore. Urban dist. and mkt. 

 town of co. Down, Ireland. It 

 stands on the Lagan, 17 m. S.W. 

 of Belfast, by the G.N.I.R. An 

 ancient town, Dromore was for- 

 merly the seat of a bishopric, which 

 was united to Down and Connor in 

 1842. Both town and cathedral 

 were destroyed during the insurrec- 

 tion of 1641 ; the present church con- 

 tains the tomb of Bishop Jeremy 

 Taylor, its builder. There are castle 

 ruins and a large Danish encamp- 

 ment. Linen is manufactured in 

 the town. Market day, Monday. 

 Pop. 2,364. 



Drone. Name given to the male 

 of the honey bee. It is intermediate 

 in size between the queen bee and the 

 workers, and is stingless. It does 

 not work, and its only function is 

 to fertilise the queen. At the be- 



large brine 



ginning of autumn, 

 all the drones in 

 the hive are killed 

 or driven out to 

 starve by the 

 workers. See Bee. 



Drone. In music 

 the pipe or pipes, 

 in instruments of 

 the bagpipe class, 

 on which the sus- 

 tained andunalter- 

 ing bass tones are 

 produced. The 

 melody pipe is 

 called the Chanter. 

 See Bagpipe; 

 Chanter. 

 Drontheim. Alternative spelling 

 of the name of the Norwegian city 

 of Trondhjem (q.v.). 



Drood, EDWIN. Character from 

 whom Charles Dickens's last and 

 unfinished novel, The Mystery of 

 Edwin Drood, 1870, takes its name. 

 He is betrothed in infancy to Rosa 

 Bud, quarrels with Neville Land- 

 less, and after a reconciliation 

 mysteriously disappears. 



In 1907 an attempt was made 

 to prove that Dickens founded the 

 story on personal recollections of 

 T. C. Druce, owner of the Baker 

 Street Bazaar. Several attempts 

 have been made to trace the pro- 

 bable course of the novel, notably 

 by J. C. Waters, 1905, and W. 

 Robertson Nicoll, 1912. Of drama- 

 tised versions one by J. Comyns 

 Carr was produced at Cardiff, Nov. 

 21, 1907, and at His Majesty's 

 Theatre, London, Jan. 4, 1908.Q, 

 Dropmore. Hamlet of Buck- 

 inghamshire, England, It is 4 m. 

 N.E. of Maidenhead, and 2^ m. from 

 the station at Bourne End on the 

 G. W.R. It is famous for the mansion 

 and grounds here. The gardens, 

 among the most extensive and 

 remarkable in England, include an 

 Italian garden and a Pinetum. They 

 were laid out by the prime minister, 

 Lord Grenville, 1801-5. In 1920 the 

 estate belonged to J. B. Fortescue. 

 Pop. 350. The Dropmore Papers, 

 published by the Hist. MSS. Comrn., 

 contain political correspondence of 

 the time of Grenville. 



Dropped Wrist. Condition in 

 which the extensors of the hand, 

 i.e. the muscles which bend the 

 hand backwards, are paralysed, 

 and when the arm is raised the 

 hand hangs loosely and helplessly 

 downwards. It may be due to in- 

 jury or disease of the nerves supply- 

 ing these muscles, and is not in- 

 frequently a symptom of chronic 

 lead poisoning. The course of 

 treatment depends upon the cause, 

 the outlook for recovery or im- 

 provement being better when it is 

 due to injury than when resulting 

 from disease. 



