GLOSSI'TIS (Gr. glossa, the tongue), inflammation of toe tongue. The aisease in its most acute form is rare; it is sometimes due to injury, or to scald; in other cases, to the action of mercury on the system. The tongue becomes enormously swollen, and one of the chief dangers of the attack is suffocation from swelling of the parts about the hyoid bone, and closure thereby of the glottis (see LAnysx). The only really effective treatment is to make pretty deep incisions into the inflamed part, keeping in view that the resulting wound is likely to be much less than appears at the time; for the enlarge ment of the organ has stretched the mucous membrane, and infiltrated• all the textures with fluid, while the vessels also are distended with blood. A straight bistoury should be boldly plunged into the upper surface, and several incisions made lengthways sufficiently deep to evacuate the confined fluids. A good deal of blood will usually follow, but if care has been taken not to injure the lingual artery or its branches (see TONGUE), there is no real danger from this cause. In places at a distance from medical advice, this operation might require to be performed by unskilled hands, and with a penknife or any other cutting instrument at band; care should be taken in this case to make the incisions on the upper surface, and not too far from the middle line.
a t. of Derbyshire, England, 19 m. w.n.w. from Sheffield, on a small river which falls into the Etberow, a branch of the Mersey. A branch railway. about a mile in length, connects it with the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolshire railway. It is situated in the midst of the beautiful scenery of the Peak, on a rising ground, above a deep valley, the Dinting vale, over which the railway is carried by a viaduct of 16 arches. The suburb of Howard's town exceeds the older town of Glossop in magnitude. Glossop is the chief seat of the cotton manufacture in Derbyshire. There are also woolen and paper-mjfis, dye-works, print-fields, bleach-fields, and iron foundries. The parish church of Alt-Saints is an ancient edifice, recently enlarged and improved. Pop. '71, 17,046.