Many a patient who takes penicillin in lozenges or sprays shows a marked discoloration of the tongue; most U.S. doctors have blamed the disease rather than the cure. Following up the work of doctors in Britain and India, Dr. Samuel A. Wolfson of Los Angeles came to a different conclusion: he showed that penicillin itself causes blackening of the tongue, may even cause the growth of black "hairs" up to half an inch long. Fortunately, the disorder clears up automatically after penicillin treatment is ended.
In the current Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Wolfson describes a woman's tongue which had...
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