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.

adjoining lymphatic glands also enlarged and tuberculous.

134.
Dr. GROMIER, Gazette Médicale de Lyon, 1857.

Female, 51.

None given. Illness, fifteen months.

Loss of appetite and flesh; later, pains in loins, excessive debility, and slight convulsive symptoms before death, which took place from exhaustion.

Intense brown discoloration soon following early symptoms of illness.

Both found tuberculous.

Miliary tubercles in apices of both lungs.

135.
Dr. GIOCOMO MINGONI, Gaz. Med. Ital., Lombardia, 1856, No. 42.

Male.

Hemiplegia at 8 years old, for some months; dysentery at 25, and again at commencement of illness. Duration, twenty months.

Debility, languor, and vomiting of food; loss of flesh, pains in loins, vertigo; body became cold, pulse failed; death from exhaustion.

Face and hands began to darken with first symptoms of illness; discoloration appeared later in axillæ, on scrotum, and in large patches on elbows and knees; also on lips.

Right capsule small, and containing some crude tubercles, shewing normal structure between them; left capsule greatly enlarged; on section, a quantity of pus escaped, and a tuberculous mass was seen partly softening down.

Crude tubercle in apex of left lung; slight appearance of softening in brain.

136.
Dr. ISAAC TAYLOR, Med. Gaz., vol. xxxv., p. 36, 1856, from Amer. Journ. of

Male, 22.

Two years before admission to Belle Vue Hospital, New York, had symptoms of phthisis, which had entirely subsided. Duration unknown.

Feebleness and emaciation; nausea and vomiting; pain in right side, and constipation; pulse small and weak; hebetude of mind and body; suppression of urine two

Face and neck a light sun-burnt hue; backs of hands brown; small darkish spots on each lip, which deepened while under observation; trunk and limbs of normal col-

Right capsule consisted solely of tuberculous material, in part solid and in part fluid; left capsule as large as a hen’s egg, and contained, within a thin layer of cortical struc-

Some old cicatrices, and a few scattered tubercles, in apices of both lungs.

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