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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    PREFACE. Mt object in undertaking the investigation, of wHch the result forms the latter part of this little volume, was to shew what is actually known respecting Addison's Disease; in order, if pos- sible, to dispel those doubts regarding the reality of its existence which are stiU entertained by many members of the profes- sion. I may, perhaps, venture to express the hope that no one, who impai-tially considers the evidence set forth in that paper, can any longer hesitate to recognize a definite relation between a certain train of morbid phenomena, and a particular form of disease in the Supra- Eenal Capsules. If this truth be once fully recognized, it will then be no longer necessary to go on accumulating evidence in support of the reality of Dr. Addison's discovery ; but future enquiries, start- ing from the basis of what is already known, may rather be directed towards the elucidation of the true nature and causes of Addison's disease. Towards this further object I have endeavoured also, in how- over small a degree, to contribute, by suggestions arising out of my own clinical observation and confirmed, as it appears to me, in some measure, by the evidence I have collected. A paper, of the character of that communicated to the Pathological Society, being necessarily founded so largely on cases recorded by other observers, I resolved, so soon as the CouncU had decided on its publication in the Transactions, to reprint it, in order that I might have the opportunity of sending copies to as many of the Eeporters of cases quoted as- might not be members of the Society. It was after-