Reporter and Reference |
Sex and Age. |
Previous History, and Duration of Illness. |
Symptoms. |
Colour of Skin. |
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State of Supra-Renal Capsules. |
State of other Organs. |
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adjoining lymphatic glands also enlarged and tuberculous. |
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134. |
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. |
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135. |
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. |
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136. |
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 hens 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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