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, 1807-1889.
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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    able to detect, to the mucous follicles. These follicles are necessary to keep up a constaut moisture at the posterior part of the mouth, but they have no sense of taste. The gustatory nerve, then, is partial in its distribution, first, to the membrane of the mouth, to keep up all around and about that cavity the gratification which ensues in the healthy person putting what is nice into it. Secondly, to the sublingual or first salivary gland, in order that every thing be rendered sapid as quickly as possible when taken into the mouth. Thirdly, to the anterior two-thirds of the tongue, which is composed chiefly of the anterior and central, and consequently the principal portions of the genio-hyo-glossal muscles, with the dorsal and ranine arteries, which form the largest portion of the tongue. So much is done, and so great a portion of that organ is appropriated to a sense so valuable. All the nerves of the senses are more connected with each other than with the motor nerves; so that their peculiar union and harmony should be upheld, as well as the superior sense of the mind. But it is to the motor nerves wre owe the connexion of one part with another, as is illustrated by disease in one part affecting another part. It would not be difficult to show these connexions, but it is too long a subject for this Paper. The Glosso-pharyngeal. The Glosso-pharyngeal is the next nerve connected partially with the tongue. It arises from the tractus respiratorius of Sir Charles Bell, by three or four fine filaments, immediately beneath the facial, and above