The tongue as an indication in disease : being the Lumleian Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in March 1888 / by W. Howship Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, W. Howship (William Howship), 1832-1913.
Date:
1888
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The tongue as an indication in disease : being the Lumleian Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in March 1888 / by W. Howship Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    19/164 (page 7)
    have been so often associated by the older writers, Mason Good points out that there is sometimes but little thirst though the tongue may be dry and en- crusted to the roots, while thirst may be vehement when the tongue and fauces have no dryness what- ever. But he does not ignore the existence of thirst together with dryness of the tongue, for elsewhere he connects great thirst, a parched tongue, and an acrimonious condition of stomach. Armstrong describes the tongue of typhus as besmeared with an adhesive secretion like melted glue, the organ on the evaporation of the thinner parts of the secretion becoming dry and varnished, later brown and then black, from the deposition, as he thinks, of carbonaceous matter. Among later, but still bygone writers, the tongue finds mention more frequently than can be specified, with a general tendency to regard it, for diagnostic purposes, as little else than an exposed sample of the alimentary canal. There has been a lack of en- deavour to look at its manifestations otherwise than empirically, or to analyse its changes and educe laws from them. Dr. Marshall Hall, in the year 1835, in the ' Cyclo- pasdia of Practical Medicine,' treated of the tongue in relation to symptomatology. He gives without explanation the empirical knowledge or beliefs of his time, associating the white and loaded tongue with,