Glossology, or, The additional means of diagnosis of disease to be derived from indications and appearances of the tongue : read before the Senior Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, 4th November, 1843 / by Benjamin Ridge.

  • Ridge, Benjamin.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Glossology, or, The additional means of diagnosis of disease to be derived from indications and appearances of the tongue : read before the Senior Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, 4th November, 1843 / by Benjamin Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. A Preface to the following Paper seems necessary as an apology for so small a communication on a subject so extensive. I intended to have prepared for publication a System of Glossology, but was deterred by the labour of such an undertaking, and the dread a malady most inci- dent to publishers, which those worthy bookmen exhibit at having anything to do with an extensive work, by an unknown author, on a subject hitherto uninvestigated. On reflection, it appeared to me that reading a com- munication of the heads of my subject before this long- established society would be the better plan, leaving all details for a future day, to be given or withheld ac- cording to the reception of the scheme itself. This will account for the brevity of the Paper now submitted to the Public, who are most interested in its disclosures—to whom its doctrines are either of vital or of no importance, just as truth, if there is truth in it, as I hope there is, or delusion, which I would not knowingly practise, is established as a fact, or set aside as a fiction. The history of the rise and progress of the Medical Pro- fession holds out no great encouragement to the innovator—