Thomas Addison (1793-1860). On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra-renal capsules. London, Samuel Highley, 1855.

Addison was a brilliant lecturer and diagnostician and one of the most respected physicians at Guy’s Hopsital in London. In this, his most important work, he describes for the first time two chronic diseases of the adrenal gland: Addison’s disease and pernicious anemia (Addison’s anemia). The beautifully rendered hand-colored lithographs displayed here are among the most important illustrations in the history of medicine.

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