ACUTE PARENCHYMATOUS GLOSSITIS

A Case of Acute Parenchymatous Glossitis

A young Sikh girl, aged about 14 years, was brought to me on the night of the 3rd June, 1926, with very acute inflammation of the tongue. The history given was that about 8.15 that evening when taking her evening meal, and about to consume the last morsel of it from her hand, she had suddenly felt acute pain in the tongue. Her mother thought that the girl had probably bitten her tongue and advi...

A Case of Acute Glossitis

101 degrees, and the pulse rate was 120 per minute. There was severe pyorrhoea alveolaris and the lower central incisors were loose. There was also salivation. A history of pyrexia for nearly 16 days with the temperature coming on every other day was given. She was under native treatment all the while. She developed the swelling of the tongue about 4 days before in a mild form; this; subsided a...

A Case of Acute Glossitis

A Case of Acute Glossitis

was brought to hospital on the morning of t'he 7th May 1926, with his tongue enormously swollen. The history was that this condition had started insidiously the previous night. So enormously swollen was the tongue that the boy could not completely close his mouth, and it was impossible to see the back of his throat. Respiration was carried on through the nose, and was 26 per minute, while the p...

Tissue therapy in parenchymatous xerosis.

PARENCHYMATOUS xerosis has been known for a very long time. Various therapeutic measures have been employed from time to time without any real success. The condition has been regarded as incurable, and DukeElder (1938) states that relief can be obtained only by oily drops. Encouraged by the results of keratoplasty, I decided to try the operation of conjunctivoplasty in the so-called incurable c...