GIANT'S DISEASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 227, 23 March 1912, Page 8

GIANT'S DISEASE.

The case of "giants' disease,'' or acromegaly. is reported from Low Moor, Bradford. The patient. Mr. Henry Faulkner, of Morely Court, Low Moor, a man of thirty, states that lie was a normal boy up to the age of fourteen, when his toes and jaw began to grow very large. lie continued his employment on the railway at. Bradford, but at twenty-one be had to cease work, as jus frame bad grown so much and he had become weak. He was tlien seven feet tall and weighed over seventeen stone. The utmost caution had to be taken in walking, as his limbs came out of joint easilv.' He is still growing, and his left hip has become so large as to prevent, him from Mamling upright. Ife is able to sit up for only a few hours each day. and is provided with a special chair of large proportions. He says that he is never free from pain, and has lost the sight of one eye. Mr. Faulkner's parents are both about medium height, as arc his brother and sister. "Giants' disease," an uncommon and as vet little-understood disease, writes a, medical correspondent, usually shows symptoms like (he above at about the age of twenty-live. *o f nl . „ s j„ known there is no cure, and the usual 'treatment. with thryoid extract, appears to have no inlluence on the progress of the disease. .Persons exhibited as "iants and strong men have sometimes become acromegalic.