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The work asserts that cancer can be radically cured by eating a kind of lizard found near San Cristo- bal Aniiititlan in Guatemala.

FLORES, Juan Jose, Spanish-American sol- dier, b. in Puerto Cabello. Venezuela, 19 July, 1800 ; d. at sea in 1804. He was forced to enlist in a Spanish regiment under command of Cal- zada ; but at the beginning of the battle of ('hire, in 1815, he remained in the rear, walked to where Gen. Ricaurte was stationed in Pore, and was taken into the service. He fought for the liberty of New Granada in 1819, made the cam- paign of Trujillo and Merida in 1820, became colonel in 1822, and in 1823 commander of Pas- to, New Granada, where he was defeated. But he soon recovered, and was second in command in the victorious campaign of Ibarra. In 1824 he resumed com- mand of a part of the army, and put an end to the war. In 1825 he was appoint- ed command- ing-general of Ecuador, and re- established peace in the country. He was made brigadier-general in 1826, and in 1827 fought against the in- surgents of Lima, and, after much bloodshed, re-es- tablished order. In 1828 he be- came command-

er-in-chief of the

army, continuing the war with Peru and repelling the invaders. He negotiated the treaty of Jiron, and when peace was concluded was appointed com- mander of Ecuador. In 1880 Ecuador became in- dependent, and Flores was'* elected its first presi- dent. In 1832 the country was involved again in war, until 1835, when Flores restored peace and re- signed the government. In 1839 and 1843 he was elected president of the republic again, and in the latter year again suppressed a rebellion : but in 1845 he resigned his office and went to Europe. In 1860 he returned to Quito and captured Guayaquil from the insurgents. — His son, Antonio, b. in Quito in October, 1833, was educated at the college of his native citv and in Paris. He was minister to Washington in 1860-'4. In 1881 and 1882 he was elected senator of Ecuador, but was exiled by Veintimilla. He returned in May, 1883, joined the revolutionary forces, and participated in the siege of Guayaquil. He was elected to the Na- tional convention, in 1884 was again appointed minister to Washington, Paris, London, and Rome, and in 1887 to Belgium. In 1888, while in Europe, he was elected president of the republic, and re- turned home. He has published " Compendio de Historia Universal " (1860) ; "Las Letras Espaiio- las en los Estados Unidos," and " La Naturaliza- cion en los Estados Unidos" (New York, 1881); "El Gran Mariscal de Ayaeucho " (1885); and is now (1887) writing " La Diplomacia Americana y los Diplomaticos Americanos."

FLORES, Veuancio (flo'-rez), Uruguayan sol- dier, b. in Paysandu in 1809; d. in Montevideo, 19 Feb., 1868. He was the son of a rich cattle-owner, and passed his youth on the pamjias. In 1853 he led an insurrection, and when the president fled to a neutral man-of-war for protection, Flores de- clared the executive chair vacant. He then had himself appointed president, but in 1855 his gov- ernment was overthrown, and he retired to Buenos Ayres. In 1858 he invaded the republic for a sec- ond time, but was soon defeated. When the war between Buenos Ayres and the Argentine Confed- eration began, Flores volunteered to serve under Mitre, and in 1863 invaded Uruguay for a third time, but was defeated at Las Piedras on 16 Aug. When war between the republic and Brazil began, Flores, assisted by a Brazilian and Argentine force, blockaded Montevideo and forced Villalba. who had taken charge of the government provisionally, to enter into an arrangement by which Flores was elected president, Flores entered into the triple alliance against Paraguay, 1 May, 1865, and was in command of the allied armies at the capitula- tion of the Paraguayan army, for which he re- ceived from the emperor of Brazil the cross of the Cruceiro. During his absence in the field Vidal had been elected president pro tempore ; but on his return in 1866, Flores forced the former to re- sign the government into his hands. In conse- quence of a revolution, headed by his sons, he resigned the presidency, 15 Feb., 1868, before his term was ended, and was assassinated in a street tumult, four davs afterward.

FLORES-ALATORRE, Juan José, Mexican lawyer, b. in Aguascalientes. 1 June, 1766 ; d. in the city of Mexico, 8 July, 1854. He graduated at the University of Mexico in 1790, was appointed defender of the poor in 1794, and in 1799 public defender of the criminals of his tribunal. He was made judge of the same court in 1801, commis- sioned to inspect the treasury of Sombrerete m 1807, and in 1808 was promoted criminal judge for the supreme court of Mexico. He was deputy for Zacatecas to the constituent cortes of Cadiz in 1813, and in 1814 was elected president of the Academy of jurisprudence. In 1818 he became a member of the supreme court of Guadalajara. The Emperor Iturbide appointed him one of the mem- bers of the supreme court of the empire, and dur- ing the political disturbances of the following years Flores was left undisturbed in his office, which he left in 1840, with a pension. He left ready for publication a " Diccionario Legislativo."

FLOURNOY, Thomas Stanhope, lawyer, b. in Prince Edward county, Va., 15 Dec, 1811 ; d. in Pitt- sylvania county, Va.. 13 March, 1883. He was edu- cated at Hampden-Sidney college, studied law, and was admitted to practice at Halifax Court House, Va. He was distinguished throughout the circuit, which was noted for its brilliant bar, as a speaker of much eloquence, and for his great success as a criminal lawyer. Though a Whig, through his personal popularity he was elected to congress in 1846 in a largely Democratic district. In 1856 he was nominated by the Whig and Know-Nothing parties as candidate for governor of Virginia against Henry A. Wise, who was elected. Mr. Fhnirnoy was a member of the convention of Virginia in 1860-'l, and used all his influence to prevent the secession of the state. When it finally declared for the Confederacy, he joined the army of northern Virginia as a private, but was appointed colonel, and was in active service throughout the war.

FLOWER, Frank Abial, author, b. in Cottage, Cattaraugus co., N. Y., 11 May, 1854. He was educated at the Towanda union and Predonia normal schools, learning the printer's trade at the same time. Subsequently he settled in Wisconsin, where for several years he edited a newspaper. In 1883