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...nomination, charged that Senator Kennedy was a victim of Addison's disease. As described by Dr. Thomas Addison in 1849, that disease is a rare, acute adrenal tuberculosis (signs: extreme lethargy, deep skin pigmentation) that generally ends in death. Doctors nowadays often apply the name to nontubercular, nonfatal adrenal insufficiency. That, Kennedy's doctors say, is what he has, and until several years ago he took desoxycorticosterone and cortisone to make up the lack. He still takes other corticosteroids by mouth, although his last tests showed his adrenal function to be normal...
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