66 GLANDS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 



measured about six feet four inches, having de- 

 veloped into a powerful man of unusual strength, 

 weighing 222 pounds. He was intelligent and a 

 good student. So far all had gone well. The man 

 was an excellent type of a physically well-developed 

 youth. 



At 23 he had a severe illness; he was said to be 

 "threatened with consumption." At 25 there seem 

 to have been no traces of acromegaly. He and his 

 father were positive that a second growth began 

 when he was 27. 



About 1903 at 28 he began to have violent 

 headaches (due to a tumor of the pituitary, and to 

 the consequent pressure on adjacent parts) ; also 

 pains in the extremities. These attacks would be 

 followed by the discharge from the nose of quan- 

 tities of "slimy mucus/' occasionally tinged with 

 blood, and relief would ensue for some days or 

 weeks. He was told at the time that he had acro- 

 megaly. Two years later difficulty in sighting his 

 rifle first called attention to a failure of vision. 



In 1907 his parents realized that his "features 

 were changing/ 5 and that he was "getting large all 

 over," and was losing his strength (this was dur- 

 ing his "second period of growth" ) . 



When admitted into Dr. Cushing's clinic in 

 1910 he had become very weak and drowsy, and 

 tired easily. There had been a complete loss of 

 libido et potentio sexu&lis. Beading vision was lost 



