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syncopal attack dependent on status lymphaticus. (This recalls Neurath's 

 cases. ) 



Wilson describes the case of the fifth child of normal parents who 

 was of usual size at birth, but at six weeks he began to grow very rapidly. 



Fig. 20. Rontgenogram of hand of precocious girl of six years in center. To left 

 and right are the hands' of myxedematous dwarfs, 13 and 2:5 years old. (After Anton, 

 Monatsschrift. f. Psych. 11. Neurol.) 



At nine months he measured 3 feet 1 \/\. inches in length and was well pro- 

 portioned. He measured 22% in. around the chest and 24 in. around the 

 small of the back and his thigh was 18 in. in circumference. 



Heredity in Gigantism 



Considering the rarity of gigantism the comparatively frequent oc- 

 currence of more than one case in a family is striking-. In some families so 

 many individuals have been abnormally large that this trait must be con- 

 sidered dominant, as in the case of the last example of gigantism and 

 infantilism related in this article. T)e Neuville states that the English 

 giant, Robert Hales, born in 1820, himself 7 feet 6 inches tall, was the 

 son of a father of 6 feet 6 inches and mother of 6 feet. An ancestor who 



