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t#. To disease of the subjacent glands of the mucous 

 membrane or of the tongue. 



Q. What affection most frequently appears on the mem- 

 brane of the pharynx? 



#. Venereal ulceration. 



Q. Name the principal diseases of the laryngeal mu- 

 cous surface. 



t/2. Croup, and laryngeal phthisis. 



Q. Where is the force of the last disease expended? 



t#. Originating in the mucous membrane, it fixes on and 

 destroys the arytenoid cartilages by ulceration. 



Q. What are the general pathological states of pulmo- 

 nary catarrh? 



Ji. Those of acute and chronic mucous inflammation. 



Q. Name another frequent disease of the pulmonary 

 mucous membrane. 



*fl. Haemoptysis, which ends in phthisis. 



Q. What are the diseases of the gastric mucous mem- 

 brane ? 



*ft. It has its catarrhal state. You find also the haema- 

 temesis, and cancer; if indeed the last arises from the mu- 

 cous surface. 



Q. To what affections is the intestinal mucous mem- 

 brane liable? 



#. To acute and chronic diarrhoea and dysentery. 

 Hemorrhage does not often occur there. 



Q. In what part of the intestinal tract do you find 

 cancer? 



#. Chiefly about the rectum. 

 Q. Whence is tympanites? 



/?. It is a collection of air in the bowels; the gas is se- 

 creted from the mucous membrane. 



