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 d’Addison,” p. 46, Dr. MOISSENET.

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 Negro’s; 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.
Dr. GUBIAN, Gazette Médicale de Lyon, Canstatt’s Jahresbericht, 1858.

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 Peyer’s glands.

126.
Dr. BALY, Path. Trans., vol. viii., p. 330.

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.

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