Excerpt from A Complete Handbook of Treatment: Arranged as an Alphabetical Index of Diseases to Facilitate Reference, and Containing Nearly One Thousand Formulae Addison' S Disease. - Definition. - Disease of the supra renal capsules, with discoloration of the skin; or, a morbid state which establishes itself with extreme insidiousness, whose characteristic features are anaemia, general langour and debility, and extreme prostration, expressed by loss of muscular power, weakness of pulse, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, breathlessness upon slight exertion, dim ness of sight, functional weakness and irritability of the stom ach, and a peculiar uniform discoloration of the skin, which becomes of a brownish olive-green hue, like that of a mulatto, occurring in connection with a certain diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules. The progress of the disease is very slow, extending on an average over one year and a half, but may be prolonged over four or five. The tendency to death is by asthenia, the heart becoming utterly powerless, as if its natural stimulus - the blood - had ceased to act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.