Identifier: endocrinology07asso (find matches)
Title: Endocrinology
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Association for the Study of Internal Secretions (U.S.) Endocrine Society
Subjects: Endocrinology Endocrinology
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Association for the Study of Internal Secretions
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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after walkiriK or a small amount of work; has noted dyspnoea onexertion; has never nhaved more than once a iveeic; and sometimes hasnot found it necessary for several months; says testicles were largerat 20 than now. Was insulted about sexual habits, it being insinuatedthat he had intercourse with boys, fight ensued and he killed his op-ponent in self-defense; is in jail for manslaughter. Examination : Tall, burly, heavy build; weight about 200 pounds.Low forehead, fat mammary glands with large nipples and fat lumbo-sacral pads; face dry and senile, neck thick, hands large; very littlehair on face or axillae, pubic strictly femiuine; skin dry and smooth;penis small, scrotum small, testes small, prostate very small. Wasser-mann negative. Case No. 15 (See Figure No. 12). L. Z., O. P. D. No. 73098, aged51 years. Gigantism and Infantilism vnth Very Small Prostate. History: The patients height is 6 feet and the weight 250pounds. No other member of the family, including the mother and . (Co
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a ; prostate \ four brothers, have any similar disturbances. The past history is un-important. The patient noticed that he was different from other boysbecause they poked fun at him on account of his large breasts andsmall genitals. He has never shaved. The voice is high pitched. Hehad never had any sexual desire, erections or intercourse. He was tallfor his age and as a boy was fat. He was 6 feet tall at 16 years. He 248 ABSENCE OF PROSTATE AND EXDOCRINES was always very stronjif and powerful; being sensitive about not beinglike other men he sought always very strenuous physical labor, such asthat of a sailor; he did deep water diving. His case in 1914 wasdiagnosed by Barker at Johns Hopkins as acromegaly and infan-tilism. At that time he had excruciating headaches with explosive,projectile vomiting. Gushing and Horrax of Harvard saw him in 1917,and because of vomiting and headaches, a decompression was done,apparently a subtemporal, which relieved the headaches and vomitingalmost im

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