WEMYSS, weems, Francis teris, 10th Earl of Wemyss and Baron Elcho, English noble: b. 4 Aug. 1818; d. 30 June 1914. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, gradu ated at Christchurch, Oxford, and became (1841-46) member of Parliament for East Gloucestershire, then (1847-83) member for Haddingtonshire, and (1852-55) he was Lord of the Treasury. He was aide-de-camp to the late Queen Victoria.
WEN, an encysted tumor, or sebaceous cyst, varying in size, occurring in different parts of the body, hut mostly on the scalp and neck; commonly situated immediately under the skin. The causes of their formation are not under stood, but a strongly marked tendency to such swellings exists in particular individuals, lead ing to the belief in constitutional causes. At its commencement the wen is indolent, and it is often many years before it attains any con siderable size. It is enclosed in a sac, its con tents being sometimes sebaceous matter, in other cases serum, or a thin fetid brown or black fluid. Sometimes the sac contains cartilaginous or even osseous matter. Frequently the sac, especially when small, may be punctured, and its contents pressed out; hut sometimes this gives rise to very severe inflammatory action.
Another and safe mode of treatment is to dis sect them out with the knife wherever their position will admit of it, care being taken to remove the whole of the cyst.
wun'chow'; China, a treaty port (since 1887) in the province of Che-lciang, on the estuary of the Ta-kai River. flowing into the China Sea, about 200 miles south by west of Shanghai. Ruined palaces, gates, triumphal arches and an immense wall are among the numerous signs of its vanished great neSs, but it is still a comparatively clean town, with broad streets and numerous canals. Among buildings of recent erection are the custom-house and the branch of the Imperial Chinese Post Office. The chief imports arc cot tons. kerosene, sugar, opium, iron and woolens; the principal exports are tea, umbrellas, timber and oranges. The average annual values of the imports and exports during several recent years were about $1.500010 and $1,25001M1.
respectively. The tonnage of shipping is about 40.000 per annum. There is also a consider able junk trade. Pop. 205,000.