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.

esbericht, 1859, part iv., p. 288, M. SCHMIDT, Rotterdam.

five months before death, fright checked catamenia, and health declined from that time.

in epigastrium; loss of appetite, often vomiting after food; progressive anæmia and debility, towards the last, constant drowsiness, extinction of pulse, and death.

fined, almost black specks; on neck and back of hands, in axillæ, flexures of joints, and on parts compressed by strings, sepia-coloured patches, fading into normal skin.

dules, which here and there were softened down; these nodules were massed together towards the centre, and embedded in a grey semi-transparent substance.

tening like lard; follicles of intestines much swollen.

104.
M. VIRCHOW, Canstatt’s Jahresbericht, 1858, part iv., p. 273, M. WAGNER

Male, 16.

Previously healthy. Three months under treatment.

Perityphlitis and acute stomach catarrh.

Three weeks before death, appearance of bronzing on face.

Both somewhat enlarged, hard, and studded throughout with small masses, varying in size, and resembling tuberculous matter.

Mesenteric and solitary glands, Peyer’s patches, and spleen enlarged.

105.
Mr. J. HUTCHINSON, Path. Trans., vol. ix., p. 414, Dr. J. R. BENNETT.

Male, 11.

Had been losing flesh for some time; bronzing, about six months. Illness only a few weeks.

Progressive weakness; last week of life, having apparently been overdone by a long walk, slight diarrhœa, sickness, and a series of convulsive seizures.

Whole surface discoloured; face markedly but not uniformly bronzed; a patch on forehead, which shaded off into the less dark skin; backs of hands and sides of knees deeply bronzed; a few faint streaks on lips; conjunctivæ pale.

Both entirely disorganized, containing chalk and cheesy matter, and firm fibrous structure binding together these elements; no softening nor evidence of recent inflammation; no trace of normal tissue.

No disease of other organs except mesenteric glands, many of which were the size of marbles, and contained cheesy matter encapsulated in very dense or even osseous walls.

106.
M. ULRICH, Deutsche Klinik 1862, p. 25.

Male, 24.

Had long suffered from stomach derangements, and previous winter from suppuration of glands in

Cachexia, indigestion, loss of appetite, nausea, headaches, vomiting, sleeplessness, prostration of strength; pulse small,

For two or three years, discoloration of skin like that of a Mulatto.

Both thickened and nodulated; on section, found to be entirely changed into grey tubercles and yel-

Peyer’s patches prominent, and some of mesenteric glands enlarged, and on section

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