Reporter and Reference |
Sex and Age. |
Previous History, and Duration of Illness. |
Symptoms. |
Colour of Skin. |
Post-Mortem Examination. | |||||||
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State of Supra-Renal Capsules. |
State of other Organs. |
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tied; conjunctivæ pearly white. |
down into creamy matter, like purulent mucus. |
black pigment on omentum, peritoneum, and other internal surfaces. |
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98. |
Male, 18, printer. |
Good health until last illness. Duration, four months. |
Constant vomiting of glairy mucus, tinged with bile; rapid emaciation, occasional headache, giddiness, and frequent rigors; much thirst, slight fever, and diarrha; tongue red, covered with yellow fur; death from exhaustion. |
No discoloration; after death, complexion was noted as brownish, but there was nothing like bronze. |
Both hypertrophied, and consisting of nodules of buff-coloured material, which were largest in left capsule, and mixed with some putty-like material and a little hard earthy deposit, all blended together, and surrounded by dense greyish fibrous tissue; no traces of healthy structure. |
Cerebellum firmly attached to dura mater by old adhesions; liver dark-brown, firmly attached to diaphragm, and congested throughout; viscera healthy, but mostly adherent and congested. |
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99. |
Male, about 45. |
None given. Ailing two years. |
Lassitude; day before death, vomiting and convulsions, followed by a semi-comatose condition. |
Face and hands appeared exceedingly tanned; discoloured patch on chest, where a blister had been applied; conjunctivæ pearly white. |
Right much enlarged, adherent to liver; abscess in lower part; in upper part, tubercular cheesy-looking matter, embedded in firm whitish-blue tissue; left capsule smaller than right, no abscess, but otherwise in similar condition. |
Pleuritic adhesions; lungs emphysematous; heart fatty. |
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