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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to sun burning; last illness followed a severe purge. Duration, fourteen days. |
ing; retching on the slightest exertion; later, cough, with scanty expectoration of mucus, tinged with blood, and faintness, with vomiting, on being moved; conscious to the last; death rather sudden. |
more evident, and the nipples, axillæ, abdomen, and knees shewed a slightly dusky hue; a single small dark stain on buccal mucous membrane. |
nodulated and consisting chiefly of opaque-yellow masses, cheesy or friable, with here and there some gritty matter, bound together by greyish semi-transparent tissue; in upper part, some puriform fluid; no trace of normal structure; left capsule smaller, and disease appeared less advanced. |
ly grey semi-transparent tubercular deposit; in right lung, tubercle beginning to soften; a little grey tubercle in lower portions of both lungs; Peyers patches prominent, mesenteric and solitary glands enlarged, and a few of the latter opaque and yellowish. |
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157. |
Male, 26, grocer. |
None given. Illness about four months. |
Excessive weakness and want of energy; dull, aching pain in region of kidneys; towards the last, vomiting. |
At first, slight yellowish tinge on face, which gradually darkened; after death, skin universally of a yellowish-brown hue, more markedly so on abdomen. |
Tight capsule much enlarged, and infiltrated with masses of yellow tubercle; left capsule smaller, but similarly diseased; under microscope, deposit found to consist of granules, oil-globules, free nuclei, and a few imperfect cells. |
Puckered cicatrix at apex of right lung; old pleuritic adhesions; a few masses of tubercle between jejunum and pancreas, which were adherent to each other. |
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158. |
Male, 15, paper-stainer. |
None given. Illness above a year. |
Chilly fits, pains in back, diarrha and sickness; typhoid erysipelas of face, and tubercular peritonitis. |
General darkening of skin; almost Negro blackness on points of fingers, penis, and scrotum; slight staining of mucous surface of lips. |
Both enlarged and indurated; the normal structure, except a little in left capsule, replaced by a yellow cheesy substance, partly infiltrated with cretaceous matter. |
A little tubercle in both lungs; peritoneum universally tuberculous. |
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