Method It was decided to investigate this problem by inspecting the tongues of all patients
seen in general practice over a period of about six months, until the necessary facts on 700 …

The belief that the general health of a person is reflected in the stateof his tongue dates from
the days of Hippocrates. In the lay mind this Hippocratic tradition has survived, more or less …

Treatment of the Common Cold SIR,-" Starve a fever, feed a cold" is an old saying in which
may be the answer to the. treatment of the common cold. Although it does not give a choice …

THE doctor, in former times, whether at the bedside 01'in the consulting room, never omitted
to inspect the patient's tongue, just as he never omitted to count the pulse by his great gold …

Examination of the tongue is probably one of the oldest methods of clinical investigation. In
the old days it was regarded as very important, especially for the prognosis. The old …

It is part of the routine physical examination of a patient with an internal complaint to
examine the oral cavity. When the complaint is not localized to this place the examination …

Discussion These results show that furring of the tongue is mostcom-mon in infections of the
respiratory tract, in fever, regardless of the cause, in local infections of the mouth, and in …

Black tongue (brown tongue, glossophytia, melano-glossia, nigrities linguae) has been
described by many authors, but its aetiology is so far unknown. It is usually associated with …

May 20, 1891.] THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. 961 in two cases the rapid recurrence
was no doubt to some ex-tent my fault, because I did not take pains to remove all the loose …

[THIIB tirst part of the lecture was devoted to a demonstratioi Of WKhitehead's method of
removal of the tongue with scis-sors, andoperations for the removal of glands and ligature of …