GLOSSODIA 



The tongue becomes swollen and 

 painful, and speech, swallowing, 

 and respiration are interfered with. 

 Treatment depends upon the cause. 

 In severe cases, leeches may be 

 applied beneath the angles of the 

 jaw, or incisions made into the 

 tongue. If an abscess forms it 

 should be opened. See Tongue. 



Glossodia (Gr. glossa, tongue). 

 Small genus of terrestrial orchids. 

 Natives of Australia, they have 

 egg-shaped tuberous roots and a 

 solitary lance-shaped, or oblong 

 leaf. The flowering stem does not 

 exceed 1 ft. in height, bearing one, 

 two, or three blue or purple flowers, 

 sometimes speckled with white. 

 These are of more regular form 

 than in most orchids. At the base 

 of the lip of the flower is a long, 

 tongue-like appendage which has 

 suggested the name of the genus. 



Glossop. Mun. borough and 

 market town of Derbyshire. It is 

 13 m. S.E. of Manchester, having 

 a station on the G.C. Ely. In the 

 Manchester area, its chief industry 

 is the manufacture of cotton. There 

 are also dyeworks, bleachworks, 

 and paper mills, while coal is mined 

 in the neighbourhood. The chief 

 church is All Saints, a modern 

 building, and there is a fine Roman 

 Catholic church. Much of the town, 

 which includes Howard Town and 

 Milltown, as well as Glossop pro- 

 per, is built on land belonging to 

 the Howards, one of whom bears 

 the title of Lord Howard of 

 Glossop and lives at Glossop Hall, 

 a building in the French style. 

 Glossop is on the edge of the Peak 

 district, and near it is Longendale, 

 with the Etheridge flowing through 

 some fine scenery. It was made a 

 borough in 1866. Market day, Sat. 

 Pop. 21,688. 



Gloss o - pharyngeal Nerve. 

 Ninth cranial nerve. It is the 

 nerve of sensation to the upper part 

 of the throat and tonsils; of taste 

 to the back and posterior two-thirds 

 of the side of the tongue ; and of 

 motion to the stylo-pharyngeal 

 muscle ; and middle constrictor of 

 the pharynx. 



Glottis (Gr.). Chink between 

 the true vocal cords. It alters in 

 size and shape with the degree of 

 tenseness in the cords which also 

 determines the pitch of the note 

 emitted in speaking or singing. 



Gloucester. City, co. of itseli. 

 parl. and mun. bor., port and co. 

 town of Gloucestershire, England. 

 It stands on the left bank of the 

 Severn, 114 m. W. by N. of London 

 on the G.W. and Mid. Rlys. and 

 the Berkeley Canal (16 m.), which 

 connects the docks with those at 

 Sharpness in the Severn estuary. 



An abbey was established here 

 in 681 and in 1022 a Benedictine 



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monastery was founded, the church 

 of which, following the dissolution 

 of the monasteries by Henry VIII, 

 became the cathe- 

 dral in 1541, when 

 Gloucester was 

 constituted a 

 separate see. 

 Substantially 

 Norman, the 

 cathedral i s a 

 magnificent edi- 

 Gloucester arms fice, and contains 

 the canopied 



shrine of Edward II, the shrine of 

 Osric, king of Northumbria, and 

 other fine monuments, and some 

 beautiful stained glass windows. 

 Other buildings include the 12th 

 century church of S. Mary de 

 Crypt, the episcopal palace, the 

 guildhall, the prison, the King's 

 School, and other educational in- 

 stitutions. The centre of the city 

 is the Cross, the intersection of 

 the four main streets, known as 

 the Eastgate, Northgate, West- 

 gate, and Southgate. 



Remains of the ancient walls 

 exist, and there are memorials to 

 Hooper the martyr, and Raikes, 

 the founder of Sunday-schools. 

 There is a fine public park in 

 which is a chalybeate spring, dis- 

 covered in 1814. Gloucester has 

 engineering and other works for 

 the manufacture of railway car- 

 riages, engines, agricultural imple- 

 ments, machinery, oil and feeding 



GLOUCESTER 



cake, chemicals and essences, and 

 factories for making matches, pins, 

 carpets, rugs, toys, etc. One mem- 

 ber is returned to Parliament. 

 Market day, Sat. Pop. 51,330. 



Gloucester is one of the most 

 historic of English cities. Com- 

 manding the passage of the Severn, 

 it was probably the British Caer 

 Glow, and the Roman Glevum. 

 In Anglo-Saxon times it was also 

 a fortified place, and occasionally 

 the residence of kings. It was one 

 of the three places at which William 

 the Conqueror wore his crown. 

 Several parliaments were held here 

 and in every civil war, down to the 

 one between Charles I and his 

 foes, its possession was coveted. 



Gloucester. City of Massa- 

 chusetts, U.S.A., in Essex co. On 

 the N. side of Massachusetts Bay, 

 32 m. N.E. of Boston, it is served 

 by the Boston and Maine Rly. A 

 port of entry and a popular sum- 

 mer resort, it has one of the finest 

 harbours on the coast, and is the 

 chief cod, halibut, and mackerel 

 fishing centre in the U.S.A. 



About 2 m. -distant is Norman's 

 Woe, the sunken rock of Long- 

 fellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus. 

 Settled about 1634. Pop. 24,398. 



Gloucester. British light crui- 

 ser of the Bristol (q.v. ) class. She 

 became famous for her effort to pre- 

 vent the escape of the Goeben (q.v.). 

 On Aug. 6, 1914, the Gloucester 

 got into touch with the Goeben 



Gloucester. The cathedral from the south-east. In the foreground is the 

 15th century Lady Chapel 



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