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Q. What are the diseases of the lachrymal gland? 



A. It is so little liable to disease, as to require no con- 

 sideration here. 



Q. Enumerate the salivary glands ? 



*ft. They are the parotid, the maxillary, and the sub- 

 lingual. 



Q. What are the diseases of the parotid glands? 



fl. Indisposed to suppurate, they inflame, enlarge, and 

 resolve. They are the seat of mumps they become 

 scirrhous. 



Q. Is it the substance of the gland or the surrounding 

 tissue that enlarges so much in these cases? 



/2. It is doubtless ascribable to both; but the surround- 

 ing texture is materially concerned in it. 



Q. What is the most frequent disease of the liver? 



A. Inflammation, acute and chronic. 



Q. Are the membranes and substance of the liver 

 usually inflamed at the same time? 



Jl. Not usually; the texture of the two varies. 



Q. When does singultus appear in hepatitis? 



Ji. When the convex surface is inflamed, the diaphragm 

 is so irritated as to occasion hiccup. Cough ia likewise 

 more frequent in this case. 



Q. What symptoms are specially connected with in- 

 flammation of the concave surface of the liver? 



JL. Vomiting. 



Q. How does hepatitis terminate ? 



A. By resolution and suppuration. 



Q. What are the products of chronic hepatitis ? 



J3. Great enlargement of the liver, and again the op- 

 posite state of diminished volume 



