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EMIGRANTS' INFORMATION OFFICE 



Thus his successive 

 works met with 

 a cordial welcome 

 on both sides of 

 the Atlantic. In 

 June, 1872, his 

 house at Concord 

 was partly de- 

 stroyed by fire, 

 a disaster which 

 caused him a 

 severe shock ; it 

 was, however, re- 

 built by his friends 

 and admirers, and 

 he sought health 

 by revisiting Eu- 

 rope, 1872-73. He 

 died at Concord, 

 where his house still stands.Apr. 27, 

 1882, and is buried in the famous 

 cemetery of Sleepy Hollow, at 

 that town. 



The work which Emerson left, 

 alike in prose and in poetry, is 

 peculiarly individual. He was, 

 perhaps, essentially a poet, but 

 only in a small degree a singer ; his 

 verse, often marked with penetrat- 

 ing thought and lofty conception, 

 is, for the most part, lacking in any 

 beauty of form or music. Though a 



Emerson. The old manse at Concord, Massachusetts, 



where Emerson settled in 1833, and where Nathaniel 



Hawthorne lived from 1842-46 



son, F. B. Sanborn, 1901 ; Remem- 

 brances of Emerson, J. Albee, 1903, 

 Emerson and his Philosophy, J. A. 

 Hill, 1919. 



Emery (Gr. smyris, old Fr. 

 inter il, Span, esmeril). Dark, gran- 

 ular variety of mineral corundum, 

 chemically an oxide of aluminium. 

 In association with schistose rocks 

 it occurs in Saxony, and in Naxos 

 and other Greek islands. In the 

 U.S.A. it is largely worked at Peek- 

 skill, New York, where deposits are 

 probably segregations of the basic 

 oxides in a norite rock. Owing 

 to its extreme hardness, it is used 

 for abrasive purposes, the commer- 

 cial emery being a mechanical 

 mixture of corundum, magnetite or 

 hematite, and sometimes spinel. 



Emery, WINIFRED (1862-1924). 

 Stage name of Isobel Winifred 



of the moment's consideration 

 rather than that of any fully deve- 

 loped scheme ; is, indeed, the philo- 

 sophy of the poet rather than that 

 of the scientist. It is, therefore, 

 less as master of any definite course 

 of philosophy than as a stimulator 

 of thought along idealistic and ^ - 

 optimistic lines that he exercised Maud Emery Maude, British act- 



as great an influence as he did on 

 his time. His position in this res- 

 pect is perhaps best summed up hi 

 the words of Richard Garnett : 

 " More than any of the other great 

 writers of the age he is a Voice. He 

 is almost impersonal. He is pure 

 from the taint of sect, clique, or 

 party. He does not argue, but 

 announces; he speaks when the 

 spirit moves him, but not longer. 

 Better than any contemporary, he 

 exhibits the enigma how Confucius, 

 and Buddha and Socrates and 

 greater teachers still should have 



E n uced such marvellous effects 

 mere oral utterance." The 

 t of his work, it has been said, 

 is that of good and stimulating 

 conversation, but it should also be 

 said that it is conversation on a 

 high and impersonal plane. His 

 utterance has something of a finely- 

 balanced sanity, and though at 

 times it may suggest the mystic, 

 it is the mysticism of a glorified 

 common sense, not that of mere 



nebulosity. Walter Jerrold 



Winifred Emery, 

 British actress 



Vandyk 



Born at 

 M a n c h e s ter, 

 Aug. 1, 1862, 

 and belonging 

 to a well- 

 known theatri- 

 cal family, in 

 1888 she mar- 

 ried Cyril F. 

 Maude (q.v.). 

 Her first ap- 

 pearance o n 

 the stage was 

 at The Amphitheatre, Liverpool, 

 1870, as Geraldine in The Green 

 Bushes. Her first London apne.ar- 

 ance was in pantomime at* The 

 Princess's, Dec. 1874. Her debut 

 as an adult was at The Imperial, 

 Westminster, April 14, 1879, in 

 Man is Not Perfect. A versatile 

 actress, she appeared with Wilson 

 Barrett, Comyns Carr, Forbes- 

 Robertson and Beerbohm Tree- 

 She accompanied Henry Irving to 

 the U.S.A. in 1884 and 1887-88. 

 She died July 15. 1024 



Emetic (Gr. emetikos). Drug 



Bibliography. Works, Centenary wnicn causes vomiting. Emetics 

 ed., 12 vols. 1903-15; Lives, O. W. are occasionally used as therapeu- 



Holmes, 1885; J. E. Cabot, 1887; 

 and R. Garnett, 1887 ; R. W. Emer 



tic agents in cases of simple illness. 

 Dyspepsia and sick . headache 



caused by excessive eating may 

 sometimes be relieved by evacua- 

 ting the stomach of its contents. 

 Another use is in conditions of 

 difficulty of breathing caused by 

 bronchitis, especially in children, 

 the act of vomiting stimulating the 

 respiratory mechanism and re- 

 lieving the symptoms. 



The great use of emetics is to 

 remove poison from the stomach. 

 This form of treatment may be 

 adopted with safety in almost all 

 cases where poison has been swal- 

 lowed, except poisoning from 

 strong mineral acids and carbolic 

 acid, which are apt to corrode the 

 stomach wall and render violent 

 movement of the organ undesir- 

 able. Some knowledge of emetics 

 should be possessed by every 

 household, for the prompt admini- 

 stration of an emetic may avert 

 serious symptoms, and even save 

 life, which would be lost if treat- 

 ment were delayed. The simplest 

 emetics are a tablespoonful of mus- 

 tard, or one or two tablespoonfuls 

 of salt, in a tumbler of warm water. 

 The following emetics should be 

 taken only under medical advice. 



Zinc sulphate. 10 to 30 grs. dis- 

 solved in half a tumbler of warm 

 water, repeated if necessary. Am- 

 monium carbonate. 15 to 30 grs. 

 dissolved in warm water. Ipeca- 

 cuanha. Four to six drams of the 

 wine, or 20 to 30 grs. of the pow- 

 dered root. 



Apomorphine is best adminis- 

 tered hypodermically in doses of 

 T V gr. This emetic stimulates the 

 nerve centre in the brain which 

 controls the process of vomiting, 

 and is therefore particularly useful 

 in poisoning by narcotics such as 

 opium, or drugs, such as carbolic 

 acid, which tend to produce loss of 

 sensation in the stomach. 



Emetine. Chief alkaloid found 

 in the roots of ipecacuanha 

 (Cephaelis Ipecacuanha). It is ex- 

 tracted by mixing the finely pow- 

 dered root with an equal weight of 

 lime, making into a paste with 

 water, and after drying the mass, 

 extracting it with chloroform. The 

 emetine is dissolved by the chloro- 

 form, and after the evaporation of 

 the solvent, remains behind. Eme- 

 tine is a violent emetic, but in medi- 

 cinal doses is a valuable remedy 

 for certain forms of dysentery. 



E.M.F. Abbrev. for electro- 

 motive force, a measure of the 

 strength of an electric current. 



Emigrants' Information Of- 

 fice, THE. Name formerly given to 

 a department of the Colonial Office. 

 Its function was to give informa- 

 tion to intending emigrants, espec- 

 ially those going to other parts of 

 the Empire. It is now merged into 

 the Oversea Settlement Office (q.v. ) 



