8.
M. PUECH, Gaz. des Hôpitaux, 1857, p190.

Male, 54.

Long constitutional syphilis; otherwise tolerable health. Dis-coloration, eighteen months.

Loss of strength, nausea, pain and tenderness in iliac region, dysentery. Death from peritonitis, following intestinal perforation.

Face brownish; chest, abdomen, and thighs of a sepia tint; crusts of ecthyma on chest, beneath which normal coloured skin contrasted with surrounding parts.

Both healthy.

Liver contained many sharply-defined masses of yellow matter, from size of a walnut downwards; some of them purulent in centre.

9.
Dr. MARTINEAU, De La Maladie d`Addison, p. 40, Dr. VERNOIS.

Female, 77, rag collector.

Had been very poor and uncleanly. Last illness a few weeks.

Œdema of one foot, ecchymosis and gangrene of the other; depression, diarrhœa, and gradual sinking.

Skin of a very dark hue; chest and abdomen darkest, face and hands lightest; epidermis covered with small scales.

Both quite normal, and free from adhesions.

Healthy, excepting slight effusion into the pia-mater, pleuræ, and pericardium.

10.
Dr. FREMY, Bulletins de la Société Anatomique, 1863, p. 42.

Male,59.

None given. Duration unknown.

None reported, but cancer of the œsophagus.

Some days before death, the skin assumed in places a very evident bronze hue.

Both quite healthy. Microscopically examined.

Cancer occupying the lower portion of the œsophagus.