170 ABSORBENT SYSTEM. 



PATHOLOGY or THE ABSORBENT SYSTEM. 



Q. What are the diseases of this system ? 



#. Inflammation, induration, scrofula, ossifications, can- 

 cer, lymphatic varix, sympathetic bubo. 



Q. How should this tissue be divided in considering its 

 diseases? 



/?. There are the diseases of the lymphatic glands, as 

 they are improperly termed, and those of the vessels. 



Q. At what period of life are these diseases most fre- 

 quent? 



/2. In childhood; they are infrequent in age. 



Q. What are the divisions of diseases of this tissue? 



A. They are idiopathic and symptomatic diseases. 



Q. Divide the inflammations of the lymphatic glands. 



.#. They are acute and chronic, simple or specific. 



Q. How is this inflammation excited? 



*#. By a remote irritant, or by absorbing a poison 

 which comes into contact with a gland. 



Q. Is the absorbent which conveys a poison to a gland 

 necessarily inflamed thereby? 



*/?. It is not; the gland may be inflamed alone, or both 

 vessel and gland may be. 



Q. What glands are most liable to inflammation ? 



*/?. Those of the axilla and groin. 



Q. What peculiarity is there in the symptoms of in- 

 flamed glands? 



Jl. The pain is less acute, and the progress slower than 

 in phlegmon. 



Q. Where is the matter formed in a lymphatic gland ? 





