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Jl. That pulse is more dangerous in fever than in dis- 

 ease of the heart. 



Q. What are the causes of palpitation ? 



A. It arises from fulness of blood; from excitation of 

 the heart by mental emotion; from obstruction" to the pas- 

 sage of blood through the lungs; it proceeds also from me- 

 chanically distended stomach. 



Q. How do you distinguish suffocation caused by the 

 heart, and that produced by the lungs? 



Ji. In that caused by the heart, the patient cannot bear 

 the recumbent posture, there is violent dry cough. When 

 the patient lies down, the heart presses against the lungs, 

 and occasions the suffocation. 



Q. What is' the seat of polypus of the uterus? 



Jl. It is either on the mucous surface, or arises from 

 the muscular tissue of the uterus. 



Q. What muscles are least affected with rheumatism? 



<&. The abdominal. 



Q. What symptom attends diaphragmatic rheumatism? 



Jl. Hiccup. 



Q. What occasions atrophy of the muscles of animal 

 life? 



t#. Paralysis, tyi,ng up the artery which supplies the 

 muscle. 



