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Addison's Disease

the name of a peculiar skin disease, first described by Dr. Thomas Addison, an English physician. Its symptoms are anæmia, excessive debility, loss of appetite cian. Its symptoms are anæmia, exness, flabbiness of the muscles, and a dingy brownish discoloration of the skin.

The patient generally suffers from dyspepsia, vomiting, and nervous troubles. The disease has sometimes been allevidisease has sometimes been ated by careful nursing, but no cure for it has been found, and in the end it is invariably fatal.

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