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IN I885 when Dr. Pierre Marie, who has just succeeded the late Prof. Déjerine in the chair of clinical neurology in the University of Paris, was the youthful director of the laboratory attached to La Salpêtrière, he was impressed by the similarity of the condition and symptoms presented by two women who had entered the great nerve hospital as patients. In both women a disastrous change had been wrought in their physical appearance and well-being; in the course of a year or two their faces had become big and ugly, so that even their relatives and friends failed to recognise them; their hands and feet grew in size and changed in shape, although the normal period for growth was long past. Dr. Marie perceived that the morbid state presented by these two women was identical, and that it was a diseased condition which, up to that time, had passed unrecognised. He published an account of his two patients,1 giving the name “acromegaly” to the condition, because of the enlargement of the extreme parts of the body—the hands, feet, and face.
Théorie de la Contre-évolution, ou Dégénérescence par l'Hérédité pathologique.
Par le Dr. René Larger. Pp. xiv + 405. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1917.) Price 7 francs.
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KEITH, A. Book Review. Nature 99, 401 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099401a0
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