A NEW DISEASE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 8 January 1908, Page 2

A NEW DISEASE.

At Hammersmith, London, recently, Mr Drew held an inquest on John William Piggott, a youth of 16, a bricklayer, lately living in Cayford Road, Shepherd's Bush. It was stated that the deceased had been perfectly healthy until three weeks ago, when he was told, at the West London Hospital, that he was suffering from double mumps. Subsequently he was found insensible in bed and died shortly afterwards. Dr Charles Johnson said that a post mortem examination revealed the fact that most of the internal organs and the whole of the lymphatic system were much enlarged; in fact some of the organs were more than double the weight'of those of t a full-grown man. The deceased was in a condition similar to that of the young baronet whose mysterious death was the subject of an inquest at Chelsea recently. Death was due to hemorrhage of the tonsils, whilst the man was suffering from status lymphaticus. The coroner remarked that this was a disease which had only lately been discovered, and eminent medical men were making close inquiries into it. Qf the five, or six cases, in London with reference to which inquests had teen held, he had held four. It was a subject of great importance. ; The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.