A malignant adenoma of the adrenal with transformation into sarcomatous tissue / by J.C. Meakin.

  • Meakins, J. C.
Date:
[1908?]
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Credit: A malignant adenoma of the adrenal with transformation into sarcomatous tissue / by J.C. Meakin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XIV. THE ASSOCIATION OF TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNGS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS * By Henry L. Shively, M.D., Physician in Charge of the Tuberculosis Clinic. (Reprinted, from the New York Medical Journal of May 16, 1908). For two diseases so essentially different in their nature as are pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus, there are certain points of analogy between them which are at once curious and striking. Diabetes is to be considered a typical example of a disease of metabolism, of disturbed function due to the action of unknown toxines originating within the body itself. The pro¬ duction of these toxines is apparently related in some way to the internal secretion of the islands of Langerhans, and there is accu¬ mulating evidence, for which we are largely indebted to the investi¬ gations of von Mering and Minkowski, and the recent researches of Hansemann, Opie, Herter, and Bosanquet, that the pathological basis of true diabetes is a congenital or acquired insufficiency of these histological elements of the pancreas. Hansemann found the pancreas diseased in seventy per cent, of all of his cases which came to autopsy. In nineteen cases Opie showed the gland to be affected in fifteen, Bosanquet in seventeen out of nineteen cases. Tuberculosis of the lungs is perhaps the best known and most carefully studied example of a chronic, infectious disease due to a specific micro-organism introduced from without the body. Both diseases are usually progressive in their course and are regularly * Read before the West End Medical Society, February 22, 1908, and before the Section in