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.

Med. Science.

day before death; died comatose.

our; after death; darker tinge observed in axillæ, and on right side of abdomen.

ture, a collection of tubercular matter, partly solid, partly semi-fluid.

137.
Dr. KIRKES, Med. Gaz., vol. xxxv., p. 35.

Male, 25.

Fever two years before, and had been badly off. Duration uncertain.

Great exhaustion, nausea and faintness; no urine secreted for some time before death.

No bronzing of skin noticed. (N. B.- This case occurred some years before the publication of Addison’s work.)

Both enlarged, and filled with masses of firm yellow cheesy-looking matter, in which particles of calcareous matter were embedded.

A little old tubercle in lung.

139.
Mr. F. WORKMAN, Brit. Med. Jour. 1863, vol. ii., p. 605.

Male, 33, labourer, formerly cavalry soldier.

Four years before death, his horse fell on him, and injured his loins; has been ailing ever since.

Lumbar pains, progressive debility, occasional sickness, and at last dyspnœa.

Face and upper extremities slightly bronzed for eighteen months.

Both filled with tubercular deposit.

Lung contained a few miliary tubercles; no report of other organs.

139.
Mr. A. FERNIE, Reading, Brit. Med. Jour. 1857, p. 581. Dr. COWAN.

Female, 14.

Has been ailing for three years; three weeks in hospital.

Emaciation, vomiting, constant pain in right side; pulse small and compressible; last days of life, extreme prostration, coldness of surface, and incessant vomiting.

Complexion muddy; nails black, as if from dirt; a number of small spots, of darker colour, on legs.

Both much enlarged; on section, consisted of yellow cheesy deposit, mottled with narrow streaks of red substance; cheesy deposit, in some parts of creamy consistence, in one part calcareous.

Small deposit of tubercle in apex of each lung; other organs all healthy.

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