Dr Harley, in the paper before referred to, concludes :— 1. That bronzed skin may exist without the supra-rcnal capsules being diseased.
2. That complete degeneration or total absence of the supra-renal capsules may occur without any bronzing of the skin.
3. That bronzed skin may be associated with a variety of differently marked conditions of the system, among which a prominent one Is disease of the supra-renal capsules.
4. That bronzed skin may be present without any derangement of the elver futterimm of the holy being observed. (' British and Forma Mesiscoslunneical Iteview; No 42, IS ) Ito Harley is of opinion that the general symptoms of this disease are proslumal by a " tamped Mato of the solar plexus per ae, or by Irritation of the gangisonic system of nerves, mused by the close proximity and Istimate eouneetion of diseased suprarenal capsules." The Lises1 has been examined by the mienscOpe in some of these eases and found to present an increased quantity of the white blood as observed In the disease known as Lencocythemia. [Inomo, Porous or.] The microscopic character of the ekin has been carefully examined in this diamee, and it has been present the lame appearance as obserroll M the skin of the black man. The pigmentary matter of the skin was found to be messed, and existed in larger quantities in the under than in the upper layers of the epidermis.
The treatment of this disease is not afferent by our knowledge of its euppowal mum. The remedies which would be applicable to bloodless
and depressed cosolitions of the system, should be used here. Tonics, nutritious diet, fresh air, and the means resorted to for restoring health tst morn& and huomythemia may be had recourse to hero. , The prognosis in this disease is unfavourable, although cases are reports! in which recovery has taken place.
of urine may be the ultimate result of obstruction from Z ureters, or it may (recur as an idiopathic disease. It is a condition of great danger, for low delirium and a comatose sleepy state very often supervene on it, and soon terminate fatally. 'Long and often repeated attacks of retention of urine from obstruction produce Itastation of the ureters and pelvis, which sometimes acquire an enormoun size. There may result from the same muse a gradual abserption of the itubetance of the kidney, till in an advanced stage there is found nothing but a thin containing urine in a single cavity, Of in a number of separate pouches. The kidneys are also 'object, in common with other organs, to the deposition of various morbid aubstances, as cancer, fungus, hirmatodes, melnnonis, tubercle, Lc. But the diagnosis of all the chronic affections of this organ is extremely obscure, the principal indications of each being the same, viz., the dull heavy pain in the loins, dropsy, and sometimes larmaturia.