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“The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules.”

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Thomas Addison, born on April 2, 1793, and died on June 29, 1860, was a renowned British physician and physiologist. He is best known for his research on Addison's disease, a condition affecting the adrenal cortex. more

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