CHAPTER IX.
PHYSIOLOGIC AND FUNCTIONAL ANOMALIES.
In considering the anomalies of the secretions, it must be remembered that the ingestion of certain kinds of food and the administration of peculiar drugs in medicine have a marked influence in coloring secretions.

Probably the most interesting of all these anomalies is the class in which, by a compensatory process, metastasis of the secretions is noticed.
Colored Saliva .-- Among the older writers the Ephemerides contains an account of blue saliva; Huxham speaks of green saliva; Marcellus Donatus of yellow, and Peterman relates the history of a case of yellow saliva.

Dickinson describes a woman of sixty whose saliva was blue; besides this nothing was definitely the matter with her.

It seemed however, that the color was due to some chemic-pencil poisoning rather than to a pathologic process.

A piece of this aniline pencil was caught in the false teeth.