An adrenal disease characterized by the progressive destruction of the ADRENAL CORTEX, resulting in insufficient production of ALDOSTERONE and HYDROCORTISONE. Clinical symptoms include ANOREXIA; NAUSEA; WEIGHT LOSS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; and HYPERPIGMENTATION of the SKIN due to increase in circulating levels of ACTH precursor hormone which stimulates MELANOCYTES.
    

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Hormone 'Linguets' : the direct route from mouth to target organs.

Supraormon "Frosst" : acetato de desoxicorticosterona / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; distribuidores para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.

A non-medicated 'Linguet' is attached for examination.

Morbus Addison : Klinik, Pathophysiologie und Therapie der chronischen Nebennierenrindeninsuffizienz und Salzverlust bei adrenogenitalem Syndrom / [K.O. Stumpe, F. Krück].

Addison's disease

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Morbus Addison : Klinik, Pathophysiologie und Therapie der chronischen Nebennierenrindeninsuffizienz und Salzverlust bei adrenogenitalem Syndrom / [K.O. Stumpe, F. Krück].

On Addison's disease / by Edward Headlam Greenhow.

De la maladie d'Addison / par Louis Martineau.

Die Nebennieren und der Morbus Addison / von Carl Burger.

On Addison's disease : clinical lectures on Addison's disease and a report on diseases of the supra-renal capsules / by Edward Headlam Greenhow.