Reporter and Reference

Sex and Age.

Previous History, and Duration of Illness.

Symptoms.

Colour of Skin.

Post-Mortem Examination.

State of Supra-Renal Capsules.

State of other Organs.

tied; conjunctivæ pearly white.

down into creamy matter, like purulent mucus.

black pigment on omentum, peritoneum, and other internal surfaces.

98.
Dr. BRISTOWE, Path. Trans., vol. xi. p. 276.

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 diarrhœa; 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.

99.
Dr. HARE, Brit. Med. Jour., 1865, p. 331.

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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