GIGAOTISM 



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findings were remarkable: a brain weighing 1884 gms; a large, cystic 

 hypophysis; large spleen, kidneys, and liver; small thyroid, adrenals, 

 testes, and pancreas. 



This appears to be the heaviest brain on record with one exception, 

 that of Turgenief which weighed 2012 gms. (Gilford). 



Launois and Roy also place in this class the 

 well known but imperfectly studied cases of giant 

 Winkelmeyer, described by Virchow, and the Mis- 

 souri giantess, Ella Ewing, reported by Woods Hut- 

 chinson (a). Virchow considered Winkelmeyer a 

 "normal" giant but Hutehinson points out that his 

 height at the iliac crests is 64 per cent of the total 

 instead of the normal 55 per cent, and the same dis- 

 proportion is found in Ella Ewing. 4 



7. The following unpublished case of infantile 

 gigantism is largely interesting on account of the 

 family history. The patient was seen in 1903 when 

 seventeen years old. He stated that his father was 

 between 56 and 60 years old, measured 7 feet 8% 

 inches, weighed 380 Ibs., and had enormous hands. 

 This giant father had been married three times. 

 By his first wife he had no children, by the second 

 nine, all boys, of whom the patient is the youngest. 

 The second son measured 6 feet 4 inches, the fourth 

 7 feet 1 inch, the sixth 6 feet 8 inches. The others 

 were of usual size. The third wife, herself a 

 giantess of 7 feet 6 inches and weighing 420 Ibs., 

 presented him with four daughters of usual stature. 

 Two paternal uncles measured, respectively, 6 feet 

 10 inches and 6 feet 3 inches. (I had no means to 

 verify any of these data.) 



The subject was born in Wiirzburg, Germany, 

 Dec., 1885. He did not go to school but learned 

 to read German and can write somewhat. He 



cannot read English but speaks it fluently without foreign accent. 

 He has never been seriously sick, but has headache occasionally and 

 pain through the ears. He has worked as canvass man with a circus. 

 He thinks he measured 5 feet 10 inches at the age of 12 years, and that 

 he has grown one inch in the past year. 



4 The photograph of Ella Ewing reproduced on page 812 was secured by me at a 

 county fair in Iowa where she exhibited herself in 1900. She claimed to measure 8 feet 

 4 inches and to weigh 256 Ibs. and to be 26 years old. Her features look somewhat 

 coarser than in the probably somewhat earlier pictures in Hutchinson's article which 

 suggest that an "acromegaiizing" process possibly was commencing. In a letter of 

 July, 1920, Dr. Hutchinson informs me that she was living and well three years ago. 



Fig. 2. Gigantism ; 

 Infantilism and Fem- 

 inism. ( Personal ob- 

 servation.) 



