Hamilton J W
Perspect Biol Med. 1987 Winter;30(2):231-4. doi: 10.1353/pbm.1987.0051.
A detailed review of hospital records, physician's notes, diaries, letters, and autopsy reports offers sufficient clinical grounds to establish that Eugene O'Neill developed adrenal insufficiency, secondary to tuberculosis, in later life--a fact hitherto unknown--the condition not becoming manifest until after he had abdominal surgery in 1936.
