On Addison's disease : clinical lectures on Addison's disease and a report on diseases of the supra-renal capsules / by Edward Headlam Greenhow.

  • Greenhow, Edward Headlam, 1814-1888.
Date:
1866
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Credit: On Addison's disease : clinical lectures on Addison's disease and a report on diseases of the supra-renal capsules / by Edward Headlam Greenhow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE II* TYPXCAI, CASE NOW IN HOSPITAL—SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE OF VEETEBE^— PROBABLE OKIGIN OF DISEASE IN ST7PEA-EENAL CAPSULES—CASE WITH TUBEECLE OF LUNGS AND PEEITONEUM DISCOLOEATION OP SKIN NOT DUE TO TUBEECULOSIS—CASES UNDEE 0B8EEVATI0N EEMAEKS ON TEEATMENT. Gentlemen,—About a year ago I brought under your notice the subject of Addison's disease, of which we had then recently had the opportunity of studying two well-marked cases. In my lecture on that occasion, I endeavoured to give you a brief summary of the present state of our knowledge regarding the nature and symptoms of that re- markable disease. It is not therefore, my purpose, to-day, to attempt the same general survey of the subject; but, rather, to direct your at- tention, somewhat more in detail, to a few points, on which, I cannot but think, a little more light has been thrown by the cases we have had under observation suice that lecture was delivered. During the last twelve months, it has singularly happened, that we have had, in the wards of the hospital, four well-marked cases of this uncommon disease ; namely, two under Dr. Thomson's care, one under the care of Dr. Stewart, and one under my own care. My own case and one of Dr. Thompson's left the hospital much benefited by treat- ment, and are still under my occasional observation as out-patients; Dr. Thompson's other case proved fatal on the 2nd instant, and the case under Dr. Stewart is at present in Founder ward. The supra-renal disease, in this patient, is, I scarcely doubt, associated with caries of one or more vertebrae, a circumstance by no means unusual in Addison's disease: but the case is none the less, in its history and progress, a typical example of that disease, and the discoloration of skin is, perhaps, the most chai-acteristic of any which has come under my observation. Partly on this account, and partly also because you have still the opportunity of verifying my statements, I proceed, with Dr. * Reprinted from the British Medical Journal, 1866.