PELISSIER 



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A. J. J. Prissier, 

 Due de MalakoS 



Pelion. The town o! Volo at the foot of Mt. Felion, from 

 the Aegean Sea 



gods of Olympus and the giants, 

 who are said to have piled Pelion 

 and Ossa on Olympus, to reach the 

 sky. Pelion was also the reputed 

 home of the centaur Chiron (q.v.). 



Pelissier, AIMABLE JEAN JAC- 

 QUES, Due DE MALAKOFF (1794- 

 1864). French soldier. Born Nov. 6, 

 1794, he receiv- 

 ed his military 

 education at La 

 Fleche and St. 

 Cyr, fought in 

 Spain, 1823, 

 and in the 

 Morea, 1828- 

 29. He took 

 part in a num- 

 ber of African 

 campaigns be- 

 tween 1830-55, notably the Lag- 

 houat campaign, 1852, and suc- 

 ceeded Canrobert as commander- 

 in-chief in the Crimea, 1855. He 

 took part in the siege and cap- 

 ture of Sevastopol, and was made 

 marshal of France and due de 

 Malakoff. Ambassador in London, 

 1858, he returned to Algeria as 

 governor in 1860, and died there, 

 May 22, 1864. 



Pelissier, HENRY GABRIEL 



(1874-1913). British comedian. A 



son of Frederic Pelissier, a London 

 diamond mer- 

 chant, he be- 

 longed to a 

 family of 

 French origin. 

 He was edu- 

 cated at a 

 school kept by 

 a member of 

 the Society 

 of Friends at 

 Scarborough, 



and then went to Switzerland to 



learn French. Studying music first 



in a somewhat casual fashion, he 



began to write songs, and soon be- 

 came known as an entertainer. He 



established the troupe of players 



called the Follies, whose songs, 



dances, and especially parodies of 



popular plays potted plays, as 



H. 6. Pelissier, 

 British comedian 



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i they were called 

 were for some years 

 a feature of Lon- 

 don theatrical life. 

 ; The troupe first 

 appeared in March, 

 1907, at The Royal- 

 ty, but it was at 

 The Apollo in 1908 

 that they made 

 their reputation. 

 Pelissier married 

 in Sept., 1911, Fay 

 Compton.daughter 

 of Edward Comp- 

 ton, the actor. He 

 died Sept. 25, 1913. 

 Pelitic Rocks. 

 In geology, name 

 given to those rocks which are, 

 or have been, composed chiefly 

 of clay and impurities. Examples 

 of pelitic rocks are slates, mica 

 schists, and shales. See Clay. 



Pella. Ancient town of Mace- 

 donia. It was situated 21m. N.W. 

 of the mouth of the Axius (Vardar). 

 The birthplace of Alexander the 

 Great, it was the last capital of the 

 kings of Macedonia. 



Pellagra (Ital. pelle, skin ; agra, 

 rough ). Endemic disease occurring 

 nearly all over the world, but rare 

 in the British Isles. The cause is 

 unknown, but is believed to be a 

 parasitic infection, possibly con- 

 veyed by some form of biting fly. 

 It has been noticed most frequently 

 in communities living near streams. 

 The disease generally commences 

 with the appearance of pigmented 

 patches on the backs of the hands, 

 which are at first taken for sun- 

 burn. This may be associated with 

 a mild degree of sore throat, 

 diarrhoea or constipation, and 

 giddiness. These patches disappear 

 in a week or two and the skin 

 underneath then appears normal, 

 or perhaps whiter than the adja- 

 cent skin. A year or more may pass, 

 and then probably during the sum- 

 mer there is a return of symptoms 

 in a more severe form. 



Pellagra was very prevalent in the 

 S. states of the U.S.A. in 1921. 

 See Manual of Tropical Medicine, 

 A. Castellani and A. J. Chalmers, 

 3rd ed. 1919. 



Pellegrini, CARLO (1839-89). 

 Italian caricaturist. Born at 

 Capua, he served in Garibaldi's 

 army, came to England, in poor 

 circumstances, in 1865, and was 

 engaged as caricaturist to Vanity 

 Fair. Between 1869 and his last 

 illness he contributed hundreds of 

 portraits of notabilities to the same 

 journal over the signatures Singe 

 or Ape. He died in London. Jan. 

 22, 1889. 



Pellegrini, CAELOS (1848-1906). 

 Argentine statesman, and doctor 

 of law. A native of the Republic, < 



PEL.LETIERINE 



trained as an advocate, he had 

 fought in his youth in the war 

 with Paraguay. Elected deputy in 

 1873, he held the portfolio of War 

 in 1880, and in 1886, when Juarez 

 Celman became president, Pel- 

 legrini was chosen vice-president, 

 succeeding to the presidency in 

 August, 1890. Lacking decision, 

 but an honest and patriotic states- 

 man, Pellegrini was not re-elected 

 in 1893, and did not again figure 

 eminently in the politics of his 

 country. He died in July, 1906. 



Pellet an, CHARLES '" CAMILLE 

 (1846-1915). French politician. 

 Son of Eugene Pelletan (1813-84), 

 a Republican 

 politician and 

 writer, he was 

 born in Paris 

 June 23, 1846, 

 engaged in 

 journalism, and 

 was fellow- 

 editor, with 

 Georges Cle- 

 men ceau, of 

 Justice, 1880. 

 In the chamber of deputies he was 

 a prominent radical spokesman, 

 and became minister of marine 

 under Combes,1902-5, but his naval 

 administration was severely criti- 

 cised. In 1912 he was elected sena- 

 tor for Bouches-du-Rhone, but in 

 the upper chamber was compara- 

 tively inconspicuous. Among his 

 writings are Les Associations 

 Ouvrieres, 1873 ; Georges Clemen - 

 ceau, 1883 ; Histoire Contem- 

 poraine, 1902; and Victor Hugo 

 1907. He died in Paris, June 4, 1915[ 

 Peiletierine.' Liquid alkaloid 

 contained in the bark of the pome- 

 granate (Punica granatum). Peile- 

 tierine sulphate, a crystalline body 

 readily soluble in water, is em- 

 ployed in doses of from five to eight 

 grains as a remedy for tape-worm. 



Camilla Pelletan, 

 French politician 



Carlo Pellegrini, as caricatured by 

 himself in Vanity Fair 



