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Addison’s disease is named after Dr. Thomas Addison, the British physician who first described the condition in On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Suprarenal Capsules. All of Addison’s six original patients had tuberculosis of the adrenal glands.[14] While Addison’s six patients in 1855 all had adrenal tuberculosis, the term “addison’s disease” does not imply an underlying disease process.
Addison disease caused by another specific disease may be accompanied by clinical features of that disease. The adrenal glands are small hormone-secreting organs located on top of each kidney. They consist of the outer portion (called the cortex) and the inner portion (called the medulla).