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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: uniform association of Addison's disease with disease of the supra-renal capsules, but he thought there must be some connection between them. He had a patient, an epileptic, two or three years ago, with bronzing of the skin, but under treatment she improved, and is now fairly well, and her skin much less dark. Perhaps in her case there were some changes of minor character not leading to the fully developed disease. She presented at least many symptoms of it. GLASGOW SOUTHERN MEDICAL SOCIETY. Session 1879-80. Meeting I.?29th October, 1879. Mr. Niven, President, in the Chair. Professor M'call Anderson read a paper entitled? FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE CURABILITY OF ATTACKS OF GALLOPING CONSUMPTION, WITH AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE. In introducing the subject, Dr. Anderson referred to the cases he had brought under the Society's notice two or three years ago, and observed that, while it was impossible to doubt the recoveries, some of his professional brethren were sceptical as to the accuracy of the diagnosis in these cases, suggesting that they should rather be regarded as instances of typhoid fever or simple acute pneumonia. He himself adhered to his former opinion, in which he was supported by all who had had the opportunity of watching the cases while they were under treatment. He made a distinction between tubercular and non-tubercular cases of acute phthisis, and maintained that the latter are probably the more necessarily fatal, for the reason that while in the former we have to deal (except the lung be absolutely stuffed with tubercle) simply with a disease characterised by congestion, consolidation, and breaking up of a portion of the lung tissue, we have in non-tubercular phthisis to combat a wide-spread inflammatory affection of the lung, tending to rapid disintegratio..