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.

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1844
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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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    It is my intention, as early as possible, to bring forward An Inquiry into Past and Present Theories and Systems of Medicine,” in which I shall make known to the Pro- fession at lai’ge the discovery of a new membrane, which will considerably strengthen my arguments, and show how much we are dependent on what we make in the decom- position and appropriation of our own tissues ; and parti- larly how much infant life is supported in this way by one of those wise institutions of Providence, which to know is to admire ; and how old age is upheld and supported by laws, which, if not exactly similar, have the same wise end. The contemplated treatise will clear up many points which may appear dark in this short communication ; and, I trust, go far’ to strengthen the philosophy of the treat- ment of disease by the present administration of those remedial agents which have been found to do good, but which are handed down to us more as the result of expe- rience than of philosophical induction. Important truths are only to be elicited by a great ex- penditure of time and patience ; and he is the wisest man who spends them liberally and ungrudgingly, when they are paid down for a good purpose—to add to Knowledge, and benefit Mankind.
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