Minute structure of the organ of taste in vertebrate animals. Part I
1851 ◽
Vol 5
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pp. 751-753
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The author states that, in 1839, his attention was first directed to the organ of taste on discovering the peculiar advantages for microscopic examination which are offered by the tongue of the living frog. When prepared in the manner he describes, it is much more transparent than the web of the foot; and its papillae, mucous membrane, blood-vessels, nerves, muscular fibres, &c. may all be examined during life. He subsequently found that, contiary to the opinion of anatomists it contains two species of papillae distinct in their structure, corresponding to the conical and fungiform papillæ of man.