ulcerated. Similar lesions are seen in the small intestine,

caecum and rectum. The membrane lining the air passages is congested throughout, and the lungs are emphysematous.

In recent years much has been done in Russia and India towards the prevention of rinderpest by inoculation and the use of immunizing sera. In South Africa the bile method (or the injection of bile obtained from cattlegdead of rinderpest), discovered by Koch, in 1896; bile with admixture of glycerin, recommended by Edington; the simultaneous injection of serum and rinderpest blood, introduced by Turner and Kolle in 1897, and repeated injection of fortified serum alone, have been employed, more or less successfully, in conferring immunity. But elsewhere the main line of action has been in the direction of preventing the introduction of the disease by prohibiting the importation of cattle from infected countries.

RING (O.E. hring, a word common to Teutonic languages) and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. xiprcos or xpixos, Skt! chakra, Wheel, circle, cf. also “ harangue ”), in art, a band of ci, rcular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used for various purposes, but, particularly, a circular band 'of gold, silver or other precious or decorative material used as an ornament, not only for the finger, but also for the ear”(see'EARR1NC), or even for the nose, where it is still worn by certain races in India and Africa. The word is also used of many objects which in structure take the shape of a circle or hoop, such as the tracheal rings, the circular-shaped bands of cartilage in the walls of the windpipe, the “ annual rings, ” or concentric layers of wood produced each year in the trunks of trees, &c. In transferred senses “ ring ” is also applied to an enclosed space, whether circular, oval or otherwise: hence to the arena of a circus or hippodrome, the enclosure for a boxing contest, or to the place on a racecourse reserved for the bookmakers for the purpose of betting. A particular application in a transferred sense is that to a combination of persons in, trade for the purpose of controlling markets, prices, etc. ' ', In the art sense (see also GEMS), the English and German “ring ” corresponds to the Gr. 5(I.KT/})LOS, Latlannulus, Fr. anneau. The enlarged part of a ring on which the device is engraved is called the “ bezel, ” the rest of it being the “ hoop.” To decorate the human finger with a ring, if possible with one combining beauty, 'value and a distinctive character, was a 'Widely spread natural impulse. At an early period, when the art of writing was known to but very few, it was commonly the custom for men to. wear rings on which some distinguishing sign or badge was engraved (ézridnuov), so that by using it as a seal the owner could give 'af proof of authenticity to letters or other documents. Thus, when some royal personage wished to delegate his power to one of his officials, it was not unusual for him to handover his signet ring, by means of which the full royal authority could be given to the written commands of the subordinate (cf. Gen. xli. 42; Esth. viii. 2). Among the Battas of Sumatra rings of a certain form are used to this day' as passports., The earliest existing rings are naturally those found in the tombs of.'ancient, Egypt. The finest examples date from about E an the XVIIIth to the XXth Dynasty; they are of pure gold, simple in design, very heavy and massive, and have usually thename and titles of the owner deeply sunk in hieroglyphic characters on an oblong gold bezel. Rings worn in Egypt by the poorer-classes were made of less costly materials, such as silver, bronze, glass or pottery covered with a siliceous glaze and coloured brilliant blue or green with various copper oxides. Some of these had hieroglyphic inscriptions impressed while the clay was moist. Otherexamples have been found made of ivory, amber and hard stones, such as Carnelian. Another form of ring used in the XIIth and subsequent dynasties of Egypt had a scarab in place of thebezel, and was mounted on a gold hoop which passed through the hole in the scarab and allowed it to revolve. 1 “ To rin " in the sense of to make a bell sound is a different word. ltago appears in various Teutonic ianguagés and is probably of onomatopoeic origin, and may be akin to Lat. clangor.

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FIG. 3. . FIG. 4. Fig. 3 shows a Greek ring with an incised design in a plain bezel. I, Fig. 4 is a ring from which the idea of a signet is entirely wanting. » - '“Figs I-6, 8 and 9 are from Dr Robert Forrer's Reallexikon. by permission of W. Spemann, Berlin and Stuttgart.