Indigestion, biliousness and gout in its protean aspects / by J. Milner Fothergill.

  • Fothergill, J. Milner.
Date:
1881
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    especially when the liver is disordered. Or there may be a strawberry tong-ue: sometimes like a red strawberry with the ])apilla3 like the red seeds; more commonly it resembles a white strawberry, the tongue being generally white with red papillne protruding through the fur, closely resembling the red seeds upon a white strawberry. Less commonly the papilla3 are enlarged, looking like small in- flamed warts; these are the large papillae, fifteen to twenty in number, near the root of the tongue. At times a foul streak is seen along the mesial line of the tong-ue, the edges being very clean; at other times this is reversed, a clean streak running up the middle of the tongue. Some- times one side of the tongue is fouler than the other; here there is a local cause. Fissures of the tongue are not rare; most commonly associated with the practice of drinking hot fluids, especially tea. Deep sulci are usually syphilitic, especially when the tongue generally is smooth as if the papillae were shaven cleanly off with a razor. Such a sign is of great importance, as some cases of indigestion have been incurable till an anti-syphilitic treatment has been adopted for some other ailment; and then, presto, the indigestion has disappeared. Psoriasis is also significant. There seems some evi- dence that the stomach is sometimes the seat of analoofues to skin affections; as it certainly is the seat of an erup- tion in some cases of small-pox. Skin eruptions are very frequently linked with diges- tive disturbances, and only curable by putting the diges- tive organs in order. Eczema with pruritus of the geni- tals, or anus, is always associated with dyspepsia in some part of the digestive tract.