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        of relationship to the various  organs of
   the body. and places before the observer at a
   glance, the condition of any of those organs
   indicated upon it.
     In health the tongue should be whitish pink,
   smooth, firm and  slightly moist.  A slight
   dominance  of acid over the alkaline éléments
   is the essential condition of vital activity and
   health, and when this limit is exceeded, the
   excreting organs  should remove it; but  if
   they  fail  to do so, then the excess  of acid
   originates congestive diseases in  various or-
   gans; and if this congestive state continue, it
|b^ill lead  to active or arterial  inflammation
   aifcl feveis.
     If a grayish white color with  fur be présent,
   there is in those organs so affected  a conges-
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   tur, there is an inflammatory or hxpet-alkaline
   state ; and the severity of each condition  is
   shown  by  the degree  of intensity of each
   color:—and thèse two scales of color, white
   or red, and their significance, are assumed to be the only classification
   for the basic treatment of ail constitutional  diseases.

     The white color also indicates an électro-positive state of the system
   according to its dominance upon the tongue, due either to idiopathic or
   atmospheric causes, and originates  ail glandular and nervOus dérange-
   ments ; and the red color, an electro-negative state, which originates ail
   fevers.
     The basic médication for the white or hyper-acid'state will be alkalies)
   and for the red or hyper-alkaline state, acids with anodynes.
     In  disease,  the tongue at  first  colors  and furs at its  root  in the
   stomach tract ; then at its sides in the lung and nerve tracts ;  then at its
   middle or digestive and excretory tract ; thus showing  the  order of in-
   volvement  in departing health.
     In returning health, the tongue  cleans  first at its tip in the kindey
   seat ; then  at its sides, the lung and cerebro-spinal tracts ; and at last in
   the middle and at its root, in the digestive and excretory tract.
     By observing the order of thèse  natural processes of disease and  con-
   valescence, we are safely guided by the tongue in the proper and timely
   treatment of each process, so as to  remove disease and prevent its devel-
   opment.
     In acute  diseases, restore the stomach first, then the bronchi, then the
   lung tissue and nerve centres, then the digestive and excretory organs ;
   but in subacuîe and chrome states. act first  upon the kidneys,  then the
   lung and nerve tracts, and lastly the Jiver and alimentary tract.
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Indications  of Various  States  and  Colors
              of the Tongue.

     ur, indicates defective circulation and
    Sgasiric  debility.
  Humidity, atony  with anémia.
  Dryness, nervous irritation with  conges-
tion.
  Flabbiness,  fullness,  tremulousness, indi-
cate impoverished blood with debility.
  Imperfect muscular movement, or difficult
articulation,  indicates  involvement  of  the
cerebro-spinal  nerves.
  WHITE :—-If grayish white,  within two
hours aftera meal, it indicates normal diges-
tion ;  if four hours after, arrested digestion.
  If white with thin coating, acidity in ex-
cess.
  If yellowish while,  acidity  with  biliary
irritation.
  If very white,  with  very  thick  coating,
hrokiiig-^^îke^nvrrkeHltmHel; there is iatease-
venous  congestion,  with  paralysis  of  the
sympathetic nervous system, and involvement
ofthe cerebro-spinal  méninges.   This condi-
tion is  seen in cerebro-spinal meningitis.
     eu :—If pinkish, digestion is just completed.
  «Alfred, indicates irritation, with arterial congestion.

  If deep red, severe arterial  congestion, with nerve irritation and ac-
tive inflammation.
  Ifbrightred, raw or glazed,  there  is paralysis  of the  sympathetic
nervous system, approaching  exhaustion from want of nutrition or loss
of digestive power.
  Brown:—If brownish red, with  thick dry coating; there is arterial
congestion with carbonic acid poisoning, and severe nervous and phys-
ical prostration,  threatening death.
  Black :—If blackish there  is blood poisoning from bile and carbonic
acid, or sepsis from pus  formation, with heart exhaustion.
  Blue:—Bluish,  there  is a deficiency in both red blood  corpuscles
and blood aération with defective circulation.
  Dusky, swoilen tongue, there  is venous congestion becoming arterial
or inflammatory, with blood détérioration  and imperfect circulation.
  Fissures :—The transverse fissures found  frequently in the médian
line ofthe tongue,  indicate chronic congestion  of those organs in the
tracts which they limit.
  The indications  of danger in the tongue are  tremulous action,  dry-
ness, blueness, very  red shining or raw glazed aspect,  heavy furring,
and dark or black hue.
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