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Q. Whence the oily matter on the skin, according to 

 Beclard ? 



J2. He supposes it to be secreted by the sebaceous 

 glands, which resemble in structure the mucous glands. 



Q. What are the striae so often seen on the abdomens 

 of women who have borne children ? 



#. Cicatrices in the skin, the consequences of excessive 

 distention. 



Q. What texture gives rise to warts? 



.#. The dermis. 



Q. What are the different sources of horny, cutaneous 

 elevations ? 



#. They arise sometimes from the cicatrices of wounds; 

 again, from the sebaceous follicles ; and lastly, from the 

 horny layer of the skin. 



Q. Whence the wens, the atheromas, the steatomas, and 

 melicerous tumours? 



v2. They are morbid enlargements of the sebaceous fol- 

 licles. 



Q. In what part of the dermoid texture is tinea seated? 



t/?. In the sebaceous follicles. 



Q. Where are the naevi materni seated? 



A. In the vascular net-work, the reticular texture. 



PATHOLOGY OF THE DERMOID TEXTURE. 



Q. How are the diseases of the skin to be divided? 

 #. Into the idiopathic and symptomatic. 

 Q. What is the seat of the symptomatic cutaneous dis- 

 eases? 



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