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appearance of a woman of 65. The skin of the face was 

 wrinkled, dry and faded. Growth was stopped. The 

 patient ot Variot, 15 years old, measured 1.02 meters and 

 weighed 1 1 kilograms. The body was extremely thin. All 



FIG. 5. Senile dwarfism (Case of Rand). 



FIG. 6. Senile dwarfism (Case of Rand). 



those old children appear to have been scorched. The hairs 

 and the eyebrows fall out and, to accentuate the resem- 

 blance to senility, the arteries are hard and rigid. 



In an autopsy performed by Gilford, the adrenals were 

 atrophic and fibrous and at the same time there were 

 marked lesions of the heart and the aorta. 



