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Show FURRED TONGUE NO PROOF Why It Is Supposed to Indicate Digestive Diges-tive Disturbance Never Has Been Explained. .lust why a furred tongue is supposed sup-posed to be an indication of a disturbance dis-turbance of the digestive apparatus lias never been explained. The Medical Medi-cal Record calls to mind "the respected (and fearedj spinster in our community commu-nity a good many years ago who had her own opinion about. doctors. Urged to consult one of their fraternity when a little indisposed, she would repel re-pel the suggestion with scorn. 'All they do,' she would say, 'is to say, "Let's see your tongue. How's your bowels? Two dollars, please."'" The editor says he has known physicians physi-cians of the old school who could diagnose di-agnose a case by looking at the tongue, just as he has known a physician physi-cian who could "diagnose" a case of pneumonia in a child he had never seen before when he got ten feet away from the bed. And what is more, he could tell which side it was on and even designate the lobe affected in some cases." Of course this is sarcasm. The editor ed-itor is ridiculing the furred tongue as a symptom of trouble in the digestive apparatus. |