The causes and treatment of imperfect digestion / by Arthur Leared.

  • Arthur Leared
Date:
1875
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Credit: The causes and treatment of imperfect digestion / by Arthur Leared. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    imjDortance is to be attached to these varia- tions. They can generally be accounted for by the mode in which the organ comes in contact with the mouth and its contents. Thus, when, owing to the state of the teeth, the patient is compelled to eat at one side, it is easy to point it out from inspection of the tongue alone; it is cleaner at that side than at the other. Island-Hke clean spots are sometimes seen in the midst of the coating : they are the seats of former ulcerations, or else patches of pso- riasis, and are due to loss of the epithelial covering. Fissures of the tongue are frequently depen- dent on digestive distm-bance. These solutions of continuity are mostly seen in dyspeptics of dissipated habits, and profuse bleeding is sometimes the consequence. White patches of lymph or aphthae, often beginning as minute pimples, are common to the mucous membrane of the mouth and to the tongue; their favourite seats are the sides and under parts of the organ, as seen when the tongue is protruded, or else on the inside of the mouth, near the junction of the lips. After
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