EM'PYE'MA (Neo-Lat., from Gk. ;prinipa, suppuration, from iv, en., in -4- 11-1.10p, Anon, pus). An internal suppuration. The term is now ap plied to a collection of pus in the pleura. See (Neo-Lat.„ Gk, iprri live coal preserved under ashes. from kindle, ent 'afros, fiery. from Le, en, in 71y, pier, fire). 'Thin burned smell and acrid taste which result when vegetable or animal are &emit posed by a strong heal.
Or BAD EMS, brit Atte:. A favorite watering-place in the Prussian Province of Nassau, beantifully situated on the I ,a about mil•s from its jitnetion with the Rhine, and 10 miles cast•sontheast of Coldenz, in a charming valley surrounded by thickly wooded hills Thip: Prussia, II 3). Its many warm mineral springs, varying in temperatnre from t„ I". are considered especially pions in I he Ircsameot of diseases of the respira tor• 'rho wo or of the three springs 41 nt 1805 is used both externally and in fernally. Ens is VisitUll :1111111ally by over 10,000
patients and as ninny tourists. The Kuril:ins, the older pot tam tthi(h dates fill!!! Ole Six II Celli ry, rmntains the principal Springs and hat Its II i vO1/110.0S1 by an iron colonnade with the Nur nail erected in I5:04. which you /111I. mollintr room Ind eoneert halls. )lan• of Die neiohborine lodghts eon it Ind extensive views lice• tht• ted.041t the NIalherg 1,11 the left bank of the liver. In the vicinity are hn portant lead and silver mines. Population, in 1390, 6356; in 1900, 6494. Ems was known to the Romans. In 1172 it Caine into the posses sion of the Counts of Nassau. In 1866, with the Duchy of Nassau, it was united with Prussia. At Ems on July 13, 1870, occurred the famous in terview between King William of Prussia and the French Ambassador Benedetti, which precipi tated the Franco-Prussian War.