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.

151.
Dr. F. B. GRAY, Med. Gazette, 1860, vol. i., p. 237.

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.

152.
Dr. WILKS, Guy’s Hospital Reports, vol. viii., p. 33. Dr. HODGKIN for Dr. BRIGHT.

Female, 38.

None give.

None reported, but pain in chest, and cough.

Not mentioned. (N. B. - Case occurred some years before publication of Addison’s 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.

153.
Dr. BREHME, Deutsche Klinik, 1857.

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.

154.
Dr. GULL, Med. Gazette, 1865, vol. ii., p. 441.

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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