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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151. |
Male, 47, labourer. |
None given. Illness some months. |
Gradual loss of strength, flesh, and appetite, with frequent vomiting, and pain in belly or loins; extreme prostration of mind and body; offensive odour of breath and skin. |
Whole body of a nearly-uniform dusky brown colour. |
Both enlarged, and their proper tissue entirely replaced by yellow cheesy tubercle. |
Small cavities and calcified tubercles in apices of lungs; other portions of lungs studded with small miliary tubercles. |
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152. |
Female, 38. |
None give. |
None reported, but pain in chest, and cough. |
Not mentioned. (N. B. - Case occurred some years before publication of Addisons work.) |
Both enlarged, and occupied by a yellow adventitious deposit, which in parts was softening down. |
Lungs contained tubercles, but quite insufficient to account for death. |
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153. |
Male. |
Corpse brought to dissecting-room. |
Unknown. |
Whole surface, except face, of a dark greyish-brown colour, deepest in axillæ and inguinal regions; here and there round whitish scars. |
Right capsule enlarged, and filled with yellowish, firm, apparently tuberculous masses, from the size of a bean downwards; left capsule shrivelled, but in similar condition. |
Lungs tuberculous. |
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154. |
Male, 45. |
Had had cough, hæmoptysis, and puriform expectoration, but signs of phthisis were not decided. Illness seven years. |
Great feebleness, pain of limbs, and at one time daily (morning), sickness; occasional dimness of sight on first rising; disease of left foot. |
When last admitted into hospital, hue very brown; nipples especially tinged, and also lower extremities. |
Both small and hard; right adherent to liver, and shewing, on section, fine white tissue and calcareous matter; left contained calcareous matter, |
Apex of right lung puckered, with chalky grains in its tissue; recent tubercle in lower lobe; left lung healthy, except one |
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