Herbert tells of a case resembling carcinoma of the tongue, which was really due to the lodgment of a piece of tooth in that organ.
Articulation Without the Tongue .-- Total or partial destruction of the tongue does not necessarily make articulation impossible.

Banon mentions a man who had nothing in his mouth representing a tongue.

When he was young, he was attacked by an ulceration destroying every vestige of this member.

The epiglottis, larynx, and pharynx, in fact the surrounding structures were normal, and articulation, which was at first lost, became fairly distinct, and deglutition was never interfered with.

Pare gives a description of a man whose tongue was completely severed, in consequence of which he lost speech for three years, but was afterward able to make himself understood by an ingenious bit of mechanism.