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.

state some days before death from exhaustion.

tained more of the calcareous matter.

substance separated on the left side from the upper surface of the first lumbar, for two-thirds of its depth.

TABLE K.
CASES OF ADDISON’S DISEASE, COMPLICATED WITH TUBERCLE IN LUNGS ONLY.

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Dr. BALY, Path. Trans., vol. viii., p. 325. Drs. BURROWS and BALY.

Male, 18, Baker.

Skin has long been dark. Illness above a year.

Extreme languor, loss of appetite, pain and tenderness in lumbar region, and over abdomen; headache, delirium, vomiting, yawning, and great depression; peculiar odour of Negro skin; two intervals of great improvement; in last relapse, torpor, vomiting, coldness, albuminuria; before death, blindness, laboured breathing, jactitation.

Whole surface bronzed; darkest parts front of neck, areolæ, scrotum, and penis, and on abdomen where blisters had formerly been applied.

Both small, hard, yellow, and nodulated; right capsule mostly firm, grey, semi-transparent, with a yellow, opaque, brittle substance in centre of nodules; in left capsule but little grey, nearly all opaque yellow substance, which in parts was hard and calcareous, and in one small cavity contained semi-liquid matter.

A tubercular mass, not larger than a grain of pearl-barley, in lower lobe of each lung; left pleura adherent throughout; bronchial glands large.

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