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Show Wonderful Human Tongue. Some remarkable facts regarding the tongue have been recently presented pre-sented by the eminent surgeon, Dr. E. Souchon of New Orleans. The doctor, after stating that the tongue, the nose and the skin are the only organs ol special sense which perform other functions, remarks that the tongue is the only organ except the heart which presents a base, a body and an apex, and that no other organ can assume such a variety of shapes or is movable, mova-ble, says Leslie's Weekly. Its papillae, pa-pillae, though similar to those ol other mucous membranes, are larger and more specially developed. The tongue presents a dual structure in accordance with its dual functions, motor and sensory, varies in color more than any other organ, and is more solid than any other viscus. It Is the only organ presenting the three kinds of nerve, namely, a nerve of special sense, one of ordinary sensa tion and one of motion. |