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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Historical Perspective
The condition is named after Dr Thomas Addison, the British physician who first described the condition in his 1855 On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Suprarenal Capsules.[1] The adjective "Addisonian" is used for features of the condition, as well as patients with Addison's disease.[2]
References
- ↑ Thomas Addison. On The Constitutional And Local Effects Of Disease Of The Supra-Renal Capsules (HTML reprint). London: Samuel Highley.
- ↑ Ten S, New M, Maclaren N (2001). "Clinical review 130: Addison's disease 2001". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 86 (7): 2909–22. PMID 11443143.