TABLE L.
CASES OF ADDISON’S DISEASE, COMPLICATED WITH TUBERCLE IN LUNGS AND OTHER ORGANS.

155. Dr. GREENHOW, Path. Trans., vol. x., p. 269.		Female, 31, married.	Had strained her back in turning a mangle, several years before. Illness, six months.		Occasional vertigo, pain in loins, sickness, feebleness of pulse, coldness of skin, palpitation, breathlessness and faintness on exertion; smarting in darker portions of skin when warm; fœtid odour last two days of life; mind clear to the last; death from exhaustion.		Body of a dusky olive hue; general surface of exposed parts greenish-bronze colour, darkest on forehead, temples, and back of neck; colour not quite uniform, presenting a number of small patches; several dark well-defined spots, like nævi, on arms, face, and neck; lips and buccal membrane stained; conjunctivæ pearly white.		Left capsule consisted of yellow cheesy tubercle; right capsule in a similar state, but softened at centre; no trace either of cortical or medullary substance.		Thick layer of fat on thorax and abdomen; small yellow tubercles in apices of lungs; fibrinous clot in right side of heart; peritoneum studded partly with small irregular opaque-yellowish stellate bodies, partly with small closely aggregated transparent granules.
156. Dr. GREENHOW, Path. Trans., vol. xvi., p. 247.		Female, 13.	Bronchitis six months before death; soon after, slight duskiness, attributed		Sickness, feeling of cold; listless, exhausted aspect; small, feeble pulse; frequent sighing and yawn-		Discoloration scarcely observable till last days of life, when the duskiness on face and hands became		Both much enlarged; envelopes thickened, and adherent to surrounding parts; right capsule hard,		No emaciation; apices of lungs puckered on surface, and consolidated by chief-

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