The Tongue and Its Diseases.

Abstract

According to the preface, "perhaps the chief lesson of this book is that cancer of the tongue, in place of being the hopeless disease that the laity, and many physicians and some surgeons seem to think it is, is just as curable in its early stages as is cancer elsewhere." Seven of the twenty-six chapters are devoted directly to malignant conditions. The author's experience and a wide acquaintance with medical literature furnish here, as in most other parts of the field under discussion, valuable information and opinion. The method of approach seems old fashioned, for a great deal of space is devoted to the review of cases; but they, like the numerous drawings, are for the most part well chosen illustrations of the subject matter. Here and there, as in the description of lichen planus and pellagra of the tongue, the author fails. In the latter case the description quoted