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Sex and Age. |
Previous History, and Duration of Illness. |
Symptoms. |
Colour of Skin. |
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State of Supra-Renal Capsules. |
State of other Organs. |
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prostration, loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting; dribbling of urine; last days of life, delirium and slight convulsions. |
soles of feet; colour most intense over joints of hands and feet; no definite patches; a little pigment on lips. |
interspersed with some grey and translucent substances; no trace of original tissue. |
solitary glands very distinct. |
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Male, 16. |
None given. Illness, six months; three weeks in hospital. |
Headache for several months; severe pain in abdomen; languor and loss of appetite; hearts action feeble, sight dim, and respiration hurried on the slightest movement; frequent sickness last ten days of life; death from exhaustion. |
On admission, face deep olive, with darker patch on forehead, which had appeared when headache commenced; general surface of body less discolored; minute brown spots visible on abdomen; conjunctivæ pearly white. |
Both much enlarged, hard, and nodulated; left capsule much larger than right, and presented the appearance of pale cheese, with about a tea-spoonful of thick, white puriform matter in centre; right capsule not divided. |
All healthy; body much wasted. |
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Male, 26. |
None given. Illness, eighteen months. |
Debility; partial loss of appetite; no vomiting; at last delirium, and death from exhaustion. |
Eighteen months before death, bronzing slight, in patches; six months later, bronzing well marked all over face and hands, line across forehead very distinct; rest of body clear. |
Right capsule described by Dr. Strange as large and distended with pus, the left smaller, and commencing to degenerate; one capsule, examined by Dr. Wilks, was enlarged and converted into a mass of cheesy consistence, with some cretaceous matter, the envelope enclosing it being much thickened. |
Every other organ remarkably healthy; no emaciation; half-an-inch of fat on abdomen. |
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