On Addison's disease : being the Croonian lectures for 1875 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians ; revised and illustrated by plates and reports of cases / by Edward Headlam Greenhow.

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1875
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Credit: On Addison's disease : being the Croonian lectures for 1875 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians ; revised and illustrated by plates and reports of cases / by Edward Headlam Greenhow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS. LECTURE I. Eeasojts fob Selection of Subject—Biographical Notice of Dr. Addison History of Discovery—Cases of Supra-renal Disease previously recorded—Clinical Description of Addison’s Disease ; constitutional Symptoms ; discoloration of Skin, of Mucous Membrane of Mouth, Lips, and Tongue; seat of Discoloration in Skin and Tongue ; paroxysysmal Course of Disease ; occa- sional Latency; variable comparative Date of Appearance of Symptoms and Discoloration—Pathological Lesion ; one parti- cular Affection of Supra-renal Capsules ; varying in Appear- ance ; SEMI-TRANSPARENT TiSSUE; YELLOW CaSEOUS MATERIAL ; cretaceous Material ; creamy or Pluriform Pluid ; micro- scopical Appearances — Evidences of Inflammation in and around Envelopes of Capsules—Implication of Nerve-plexuses AND Ganglia in proliferated Connective-tissue—^Eniargement of neighbouring Lymphatic Glands—Enlargement of Peyer s Patches and Solitary Glands—Mammillations, Ecchymoses, and SMALL Ulcers of Gastric Mucous Membrane; microscopical Appearance of Mammillations—Enlarged Spleen . . . . LECTURE II. Addison’s Discovery neither generally Accepted nob generally Understood ; acceptance mainly retarded by prevalent Mis- conceptions—Evidence in Proof of Relation between Clinical Symptoms and one particular Lesion of Supra-renal Capsules Statistics of published Cases—Typical Cases; Cases apparently Typical ; Cases with other co-existing Disease ; imperfectly re- corded Cases ; Cases without Discoloration of Skin—Miscon- ceptions—Discoloration of Skin may occur without disease of Supra renal Capsules ; discoloration in Vagabonds ; in Pity- page 1