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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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. |
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104. |
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, Peyers patches, and spleen enlarged. |
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105. |
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 diarrha, 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. |
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106. |
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- |
Peyers patches prominent, and some of mesenteric glands enlarged, and on section |
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