The Literary Description of Addison's Disease (From the Story by I. S. Turgenev «A Living Relic»)

Tverskaya S.
PhD, Assistant Professor, Chair for Biomedical Disciplines¹

1 - State University of social Sciences and Humanities, Kolomna, Russia

Tverskaya Svetlana; e-mail: tverskaya40@yandex.ru

None declared.

The study had no sponsorship.

Retrospective diagnosis of disease of Lukerya, female protagonist of the story is Turgenev's «Living relic» from «A Sportsman's Sketches» series. The aim of the study is to clarify the diagnosis. Based on the acute onset of the disease, due to injury, the presence of «bronze» skin pigmentation, pronounced adynamia, exhaustion, Addison's disease is diagnosed. Given the detailed literary characteristics of the disease, it is proposed to name Addison's disease as «Addison–Turgenev's disease» and «Lukerya's disease».

Turgenev, the story «Living relics», Lukerya, Addison's disease, scleroderma

10.29234/2308-9113-2020-8-2-117-126

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