Guy’s Hospital reports, vol. viii., p. 38, Dr. OWEN REES.

wheel-wright.

much worse the last nine weeks.

last, utter prostration, could hardly move in bed, and did not care to speak; pulse exceedingly feeble; frequent vomitings.

on section; seen to be composed of two substances, one firm and translucent, the other opaque-yellow, exactly resembling that called scrofulous.

deposits, the size of peas, much resembling the deposit in the capsules; heart and other organs healthy.

149.
Dr. SEATON REID, Med. Gazette, 1861, vol. ii., p. 32.

Female, 28.

Always weakly; had suffered for two years from cough and pain in side. Last illness, three or four months.

Extreme languor; failure of appetite; tendency to fainting; pulse rapid and feeble; tongue moist, much thirst; towards close of life, increased listlessness, and depression, and disinclination to speak; daily vomiting of yellow or greenish fluid.

Face yellow-brown, with many dark spots on cheeks; dark streak along centre of lips; buccal mucous membrane discoloured; two or three ink-like streaks on tongue; back and sides of neck olive-brown, nipples and arm-pits very dark; trunk and thighs Mulatto-colour, with spots like those on cheeks.

Both entirely disorganized; the right composed of cheesy or scrofulous-looking matter, the left of hard, fatty matter.

Left lung had considerable deposit of tubercle at apex, without any cavities.

150.
Mr. T. HOLMES, Path. Trans., vol. ix., p. 405. Dr. PAGE.

Male, 43, clerk.

Abscess connected with sternum for seventeen years. Illness, seven or eight months.

Aching pains across loins; depression, feeble pulse, loss of sleep.

Skin of a dark, dingy colour, especially on face, hands, and legs; more bronzed on parts exposed to light; of a yellowish hue on legs.

Both enlarged; natural tissue quite gone, and replaced by a firm white parenchyma, in which was a copious deposit of crude tubercle, softened in places.

Extensive tubercular deposit in lungs; a vomica in each apex.