Show the mouth in health one of the first ahmes a doctor does when he is called to a patient is to look into his mouth that is because it is the quickest and easiest way to examine an ity of the body and observe the signs of health or disease there displayed the mouth 13 lined with a mucous membrane which is quickly affected by many disorders and the tongue which is a mass of murdes wrapped up in mucous membrane is a veritable horizontal guide post since it is a muscle its general size and shape and its susceptibility to proper control inform the physician of the muscular condition of the patient and the state of the mucous membrane that covers it indicates the general systemic condition A person who suffers from fever of any degree will generally show a furred tongue theard The ord graphically describes the condition and it is not necessary to be a physician in order to recognize it in a long continued fever like typhoid the fur accumulates until the tongue is covered with a thick brown masa that shades off into a lighter tint at the edge in scarlet fever the tongue 13 often covered with a white fur dotted with little red points this is called the strawberry tongue when the stomach is badly out of condition the tongue shows a thick white or brown fur and those who are suffering with tonsillitis litis or from any other inflammation of the throat may show a layer of creamy white fur all over the tongue sometimes when the patient is much exhausted the tongue will not be furred but dry ved and raw thrush consists of small white patches raised above the surface and although not serious in itself generally that the condition u week one strange thing about the tongue is that although it so often betrays the state of the stomach to the physician etin two of the most serious stomach troubles cancer and gastric ulcer the tongue 13 very clean the tongue in ita health is always under the muscular control of its owner and should be perfectly steady when it is put out A tremulous tongue denotes weakness and a tongue that is coated and tremulous in the morning but that grows steadier through the day is generally the result of too much alcohol the youths companion |