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. |
|||||||||||
De la Maladie dAddison, p. 46,
| porter. |
and angular curvature of spine; abscess cured after eighteen months. Last illness, nearly a year. |
on exertion; extreme prostration and emaciation; last hours, coma. |
come much darker, and buccal mucous membrane coloured like a Negros; cicatrices of boils darker than surrounding skin. |
parent change; the other hard and nodulated, shewed on section two large yellowish tubercles softening down; left capsule atrophied; a small cavity lined with tuberculous matter. |
spine, &c., could not be examined. |
||||||
125. |
Male, 36. |
Bilious temperament; exhausted constitution. Duration unknown; eighteen days in hospital. |
Typhoid fever; during recovery, he fell into a state of prostration; digestive organs were disturbed, and there was fixed pain in dorso-lumbar region, increased by any endeavour to sit up; patient died from exhaustion, conscious to last. |
Sepia tint of whole skin, dating as far back as patient could remember; hue darkest on nape of neck, on scrotum, and on mucous membrane of lips. |
Right capsule five times the normal size, nodulated, and entirely composed of a yellowish, cheesy mass, in process of softening, and having the exact appearance of tuberculous deposit, which was confirmed by the microscope; left capsule not mentioned. |
Recent pneumonia; no tubercle in lungs, but some in bronchial glands; disease of lumbar vertebræ; puckered patches on Peyers glands. |
||||||
126. |
Not stated. |
None given. |
None recorded, except diseased vertebral column. |
No trace of bronze discoloration. |
Proper structure in great part apparent, but containing nodules of firm substance, grey and semi-transparent externally, yellow and opaque internally, the grey portion predominating; disease evidently at an early stage. |
Not described. |
||||||