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TABLE OF NERVES.— Continued. 



Nestis [nes'-tis) [vtjotlc, fasting]. Fasting. 



Nestitherapy (nes-tith-er' -ap-e) . See Nestiatria. 



Nestle's Food. A variety of milk- food for infants. 

 Its composition is: Water, 4.72; fat, 1. 91 ; grape- 

 sugar and milk-sugar, 6.02 ; cane-sugar, 32.93 ; starch, 

 40.10; soluble carbohydrates, 44.88; albuminoids, 

 8.23; ash, 1.59. 



Nestoposia [nes-top-o 1 '-ze-ah) [yrjaTic, fasting; irdoic, 

 drinking]. Drinking on an empty stomach. 



Net [ME., net, net]. A -reticulation or cancellation ; a 

 web or mesh ; a rete ; anything formed with inter- 

 stices or meshes, like a net. N., Bathygraphic, or 

 N., Bathographic Zone, a deep-sea closable net em- 

 ployed in the study of the many different faunal belts 

 overlying one another in the great deep-sea zones, 

 designed by Palumbo, Petersen, Chun, etc. N., 

 Miiller's, the "fine pelagic net" of Johannes 

 Miiller, a round bag of Midler gauze or silk mull, the 

 mouth of which is kept open by a circular metallic ring. 

 In ordinary pelagic fishing this ring is fastened to a 

 handle from six to twelve feet long (like the ordinary 

 butterfly net) . While the boat moves along the opening 

 of this net is held at the surface in such a way that 

 swimming animals are caught in the bag, in the bot- 

 tom of which they remain hanging, while the water 



passes through the narrow meshes of the net. After a 

 time the net is carefully inverted and the tow-stuft 

 (Auftrieb) is emptied into a glass vessel filled with 

 sea-water. If one wishes to fish below the surface, the 

 ring of the net is fastened by means of three strings 

 equally distant from one another, which at a point 

 (about three feet from the opening of the net) are 

 joined to a longer line which is sunk by weights to a 

 definite distance corresponding to the desired depth. 

 (E. Htzckel.) N., Palumbo's. See N., Bathygra- 

 phic. N.-work, the arrangement of fibers in a retic- 

 ulum. Network, Gerlach's, a network of proceM 

 of nerve-cells found in the gray matter of (lie spinal 

 cord. Network, Haller's, the rete testis. 



Netraneurysm [net-ran' -u-rizni) [vi/rpov, spindle; 

 nvei'ptnjun, aneurysm]. A fusiform aneurysm. 



Nettle (nc/'-t) [ME., nettle, nettle]. The 1. 

 Urtica dioica, the common stinging-nettle, a common 

 domestic remedy for renal complaints and hemorrh 

 It is astringent, diuretic, and antiscorbutic, 

 the fld. ext. n\xx-xl. Unof. N. -fever, urticaria, </. r 

 N. -fiber, one of the bast-fibers of the common nettle 

 [Urtica dioica). When cleaned these fibers are 

 of good length and strength, and quite lustrous ami 

 white. N.-rash. See Urticaria. 



