LUMBRICOID ( from Lat. lionbricus, intes tinal worm 4- Gk. EThos, rictus, form). A nema tode worm found as a parasite in the human intestine. It is a reddish-yellow worm from S inches to 16 inches in length, and nearly one-half inch in diameter, round, and with a tapering tail. It is transmitted to human livings without an intermediate host, the eggs which eontain em bryo: being swallowed in drinking-water and resisting the action of the digestive fluids. it is generally harmless, though in some cases it has undoubtedly caused death by entering the bile-ducts and gaining access to the suit of the liver, the pancreatic duet, and even the air-passages, the Eustachian tubes. and the laehrymal ducts, mass of eighty or one hun dred of these worms has been found at one time in the small intestine. During a course of years thonsands of worms have been passed per rectum by one victim. Reflex nervous symptoms have been eaused by them in the majority of eases, and paralysis, eonvidsions, epilepsy. cata lepsy, and tel states have been attributed to them with great reason. ..\mong the drugs used to procure expulsion of the roundworm are azedarach, santonin, spigelia, turpentine, mueuna, and chenopodimn.
LUMINAIS,Yntif, EvAntsTE VITAL ( 1821-96). French genre and historical paint er, born at Nantes. Ile %Na. a pupil of Cogniet and of Troyon in Paris, where he first exhibited chiefly spirited scenes front popular life in Brit tany, such as "Breton Fair" I Isti ; "The Pirates" (1551) ; "Reading the Will" I I553) ; for Sea Birds' Nests" 11555) ; and "Two Guardians" (1814). Afterwards he drew his subjects more frequently from the medheval history of France, especially of the Merovingian period. Prominent among these are "Gallie Re venge" ( Diti9t ; "Brunhild" 11874 ) ; Hunt Under King Dagobert" ( IsT9t ; "The Last of the Merovingiansl' 1 I553) ; and "Death of rhilperie l." ( ISS5). Several of his numerous productions are in the prtvincial museums of notably "Defeat of the Germans at Tolbiae" and "Return from the Chase" ( ISfil ), both at Nantes; "Gauls in Sight of Rome" (1870). at Nancy; and "Advance Guard" (1S70), at