The tongue as an indication in disease : being the Lumleian Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in March 1888 / by W. Howship Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, W. Howship (William Howship), 1832-1913.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The tongue as an indication in disease : being the Lumleian Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in March 1888 / by W. Howship Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AS AN INDICATION OF DISEASE. INTRODUCTION. These Lectures are published as delivered, with only a few alterations, chiefly verbal. I had intended to have begun them with a brief notice of what had been written on the subject of which they treat, but was compelled by the pressure of other matters to limit myself to the few necessary references which are to be found in the text. I now prefix such a sketch as I had designed. It does not pretend to exhaust the literature of the subject, but rather to give specimens of the views held at different times. The condition of the tongue has not escaped observation even from the earliest, though the allusions made to it are often fragmentary and incomplete. I have been disappointed to find how many and how great medical observers, whose minds must have been stored with pictures of the tongue,