Word: cockspur
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...shattered Roman tablet related, when pieced together, that the Roman ruin from which it was retrieved was a forum -the largest yet found in England -built by Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 130. Wroxeter's name in Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints of cerebro-spinal...