vol. viii., p. 40. Dr. ADDISON.

were small masses of yellow cheesy material.

junction of left corpus striatum and thalamus opticus.

163.
Dr. W. H. BROADBENT, Path. Trans., vol. xiii., p. 246.

Female, 23.

Change of disposition, and impaired health, for two years, attributed to a severe mental shock.

Headache and vertigo, followed by chorea; progressive weakness; vomiting after meals; peevishness, and sometimes violence.

Had been observed for some time as becoming discoloured; face and hands tanned, as if by the sun.

Both enlarged, nodulated, and embedded in adherent cellular tissue; normal structure replaced by an aggregation of small bodies, connected by firm elastic cellular tissue; one or two had softened down into diffluent creamy matter.

A few firm yellow tubercles in apices of lungs; mesenteric glands enlarged; a small firm white tumour on posterior surface of lumbar enlargement of spinal cord, out of which it sprang.

164.
Dr. KIRKES, Med. Gazette, vol. xxxv., p. 35.

Male, 34, hostler.

Of intemperate habits, and subject to epilepsy.

None reported, except general tubercular disease; death in a fit.

Not mentioned; at the autopsy, no spots were visible on the surface. (Case occurred before the publication of Addison’s work.)

Right capsule thickened and distorted by the deposition of large masses of firm yellow cheesy tubercle; left capsule healthy.

Tubercle in most of the viscera.

165.
Dr. G. HARLEY, Path. Trans., vol. ix., p. 402. Dr. MACKENZIE.

Female, 33.

Had consulted Dr. M. eight years before for general ill health, anæmia, dyspepsia, and slight uterine derangement.

Five months before death, excessive anæmia, weakness, and emaciation; marked pain was caused when positive pole of galvanic battery was placed over seat of supra-renal capsules.

Peculiar sallowness of the skin. General surface of the skin opaque; rather dusky, or freckled brown than bronzed. Several dark patches on chest; one much larger than the rest at the lower portion

Both much enlarged; right capsule firm, lobulated, and, on section, of a dirty white hue; no trace of normal structure; left capsule presented the yellowish-white colour of crude tubercle, with a

Liver enlarged, with some miliary tubercles on anterior surface; right ovary adherent to uterus, and to a cyst containing matter similar to that in capsule;