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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169. |
Male, 30, coach-man. |
Had enjoyed good health. Illness five months. |
Gradual emaciation, loss of strength, dislike to meat; occasional pain in loins; later a shivering fit followed by copious diarrha; coldness of surface and delirium. Death from rapid sinking. |
Bistre discoloration first on face and hands; axillæ, penis and scrotum, especially dark; interior of lips as black as a dogs. |
Left capsule much enlarged and almost entirely changed into heteromorphous product. Numerous tuberculous masses in both capsules. |
Some old tubercle in apices of lungs; scattered tubercles in kidneys; other organs healthy. |
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170. |
Female, 47. |
Good health, but given to drinking. Illness nine months. |
Loss of flesh, indigestion, vomitings and chronic catarrh of stomach; later debility, profuse sweatings, hectic fever and death. |
Dark yellow-brown discoloration on head and neck; less marked on body. |
Both of the size of walnuts, hard and homogeneous, consisting of yellow tuberculous matter in process of degeneration. |
Scattered tubercles in lungs; small tubercular deposits in spleen and on peritoneum of stomach; liver fatty. |
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171. |
Male, 28. |
None given. |
Excessive emaciation and exhaustion. Death from gradual sinking. |
Grey-brown discoloration of face and neck; well-marked on hands and feet, gradually fading away towards arms and ankles; genital organs dark; sides of tongue stained from root to tip with black-brown patches. |
Both enlarged, and containing tough yellow cheesy masses, identical in character under the microscope with the so-called miliary tubercles in lungs, liver and spleen. |
Apices of lungs, liver, and spleen, studded with miliary tubercles; lymphatic glands throughout the body enlarged, with yellow cheesy material towards their centres; lungs infiltrated with black pigment; spleen greatly enlarged. |
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