Reporter and Reference |
Sex and Age. |
Previous History, and Duration of Illness. |
Symptoms. |
Colour of Skin. |
Post-Mortem Examination. | |||||||
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State of Supra-Renal Capsules. |
State of other Organs. |
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Med. Science. |
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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. |
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137. |
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 Addisons 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. |
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139. |
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 dyspna. |
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. |
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139. |
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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