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and feet proportionate. The sella was hot enlarged and there were no 

 abnormal eye findings. The only suggestions of a tendency to acromegaly 

 were a broad nose, broad tongue, and rather prominent lower jaw and 

 chin. The author relates the gigantism in this case wholly to the defi- 

 ciency of the genital glands. 



4. Fahserus describes a man, 24 years old, 192.5 cm. tall, beardless, 

 of infantile appearance, who had attained his full height prior to the 

 removal of both testicles, when he was 20 years old, on account of tuber- 

 culosis. The abnormal growth 

 was attributed to loss of the 

 internal secretion of the testi- 

 cles on account of the tubercu- 

 losis. The same author briefly 

 describes a similar case in a 

 man of 38 years, 197 cm. tall 

 in spite of a marked kyphosis, 

 whose left testicle was not dis- 

 coverable. 



5. Georges Thibierge and 

 Pierre Gastinel report the case 

 of a man 188 cm. tall (6 ft. 

 4i/> in.), 52 years of age. It 

 was stated that when 12 years 

 old he was a head taller than 

 other boys of his age. The 

 authors describe him as a type 

 of infantile gigantism with 

 features of feminism : he had 

 no growth of beard, a childish 

 voice, underdeveloped testicles 

 Fig. i. Ella Ewing, the Missouri giantess. and absence of sexual desire; 



(Photograph secured at a County Fair in Iowa.) the shape of his hips, the 



prominent abdomen and 

 breasts gave him a feminine appearance. The thyroid was very small. 



6. One of the tallest and best studied giants on record is properly 

 placed in this class, namely, John Turner, described in Cushing's mono- 

 graph. He measured 251.5 cm. (8 ft, 3 in.), and weighed 275 Ibs. 

 His sexual function had never been developed, and he had extremely 

 scanty beard and pubic hair. The most striking sign of infantilism, how- 

 ever, was the persistence, at the age of 36 years, of the lower epiphyseal 

 line of the radius. The hands were huge, but the fingers tapering and 

 not spade-like as in acromegaly. In the skull the upper facial bones, 

 i.e. upper jaw and malar bones, were disproportionately large, rather than 

 the lower jaw, and the tongue was not unduly large. The necropsy 



