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THE MICROSCOPIST. 



those of mucous membranes are often classed as mucous 

 polypi. The latter occur on the tongue, in the larynx 

 and nose, on the cervix uteri, etc. In the bladder and 

 intestine they are very vascular and produce profuse 



FIG. 233. 



A hyperplastic papilla of the cutis, together with epithelium, from the environs of a 

 cancroid of the lip. After RINDFLEISCH. 



haemorrhage. Here they are often mistaken for villons 

 epithelioma, since the symptoms are similar and scarcely 

 distinguishable till after death. In the papillomata the 

 epithelium is homologous, being situated only on the sur- 

 face, and in no case growing within the connective tissue 

 basis. In the epitheliomata it is heterologous and is met 



