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friend, "were comparatively easy, to the individual 

 agonies and gaspings for breath this kind and amiable 

 man was destined to endure." His medical friend 

 adds ^ ^' The disease is novel and unique to me" — " it 

 has differed in its appearance and progress from any 

 and every disease of the tongue that I have evei* seen or 

 read of." 



Professor Bennet, in his microscopic examination of a 

 section of the late D. R.'s tongue, goes to corroborate the 

 above view. 



Query — If the ulceration differs from carcinoma, a 

 smoker runs the risk of two diseases, viz., carcinomatous 

 sarcoma, and carcinomatous nicotianum ? 



A case precisely similar to Mr, A.'s, I have received 

 from my friend Dr. Tod, of Gilmore Place. 



88. A middle-aged woman, an inveterate smoker, was 

 alarmed at seeing a small warty-looking growth in the 

 centre of her tongue, which frequently gave her a sting- 

 ing pain, and which she requested a neighbor to look at. 

 She continued to smoke her pipe, never dreaming that 

 the tobacco was the cause of her sufferings, until the 

 excrescence began to ulcerate, which it did rapidly, and 

 extended to the root of her tongue, destroying the ante- 

 rior portion by sloughing, and ultimately destroying life 

 in twelve months. 



89. J. T , £etatis 46, consulted Dr. Tod, of Gil- 



more Place, in the middle of January, 1856, regarding 

 a slight swelling on the right side of his tongue, which 

 was attributed partly to decayed teeth, and partly to 

 smoking tobacco. He consumed two ounces weekly with 

 a pipe. His wife states, that whenever any thing ogi- 



