1855, London, GREAT BRITAIN: Frontespice of book" CONSTITUTIONAL AND LOCAL EFFECTS OF DISEASE OF THE SUPRA-RENAL CAPSULES" by Thomas Addison, London, 1855. The british Thomas Addison (1793 1860), was a renowned great physician and scientist at Guy's Hospital in London. Among other pathologies he discovered Addison's disease (a degenerative disease of the adrenal glands) and Addisonian anemia (pernicious anemia).