STUDIES IN ACROMEGALY II. HISTORICAL NOTE

摘要: Owing to the protean nature of disease acromegaly, literature concerning it has grown extremely voluminous. Each one who had an opportunity investigate clinical picture or post-mortem findings in a personally observed case was apt stress outstanding features presented by his particular patient, with resulting confusion opinions regarding and origin this strange malady. There have thus up “schools” opinion, each championed some contributor whose numerous followers all inserted their personal modifications original hypotheses. It is not aim present note review entire on subject but merely touch upon those points which appear be essential our conception disease. The paper therefore will serve as introduction certain studies diabetes, metabolism, rOle other endocrine organs than hypophysis, etc., are follow.