Suprarenal Extract in Addison's Disease

Appendicectomy Complicated by Addisons Disease

requiring admission to ICU. Case report: A 33 year old male presented with a fifteen-hour history of vomiting, diarrhoea, and lower abdominal pain one week after a holiday in Portugal. He had no significant past medical history. On examination he had a tanned appearance, and was tender with guarding and rebound in the right iliac fossa. Rovsing’s sign was positive. He proceeded to theatre where...

Four Cases of Menorrhagia Successfully Treated with Suprarenal Gland Extract

the following cases of menorrhagia, and which proved to have very beneficial results :? Case No. 1.?Mrs. C., ?et. 34 years, married 12 years, has had two children, aged 7 and 4 years respectively. She was quite regular in her menstruation till her second pregnancy, and ever since she has weaned her second child (3^ years ago) she has suffered from very severe menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea. In Ap...

Suprarenal Tumors

maffin cells of the medulla, on the other hand, are derived from primitive mural elements having an origin in common with other components of the sympathetic nervous system. The pathologic behavior of the tumors emphasizes this two-fold origin (Fig. 1). The more rapidly growing cortical tumors are accompanied by changes in the sex characteristics of the patient, while the medullary tumors show ...

Suprarenal Virilism

Until a year ago the patient, a girl aged 5 years, was to all appearances norma], mentally and physically. During the dst twelve months she became fat, listless, unusually silent, Prone to sit about, disinclined to take an interest in her Surroundings or to play with other children. With the increasing fatness growth in stature was at an normally vigorous rate, hair developing on the limbs and ...

Abnormalities of the Suprarenal Gland and Addison's Disease