Acromegaly: a personal experience / [Leonard Portal Mark].

  • Mark, Leonard Portal, 1855-1930.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Acromegaly: a personal experience / [Leonard Portal Mark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE When Fate, shaping my ‘ends,’ decreed that I was to suffer from the malady Acromegaly (a/cpa = ends, /ie7aX,a = big), she perhaps gave me the greatest compensation possible by causing me to enter the medical profession. After the distress caused by the one and the enjoyment due to the other—both extending over more than a quarter of a century— I find myself in the unique position of being able to relate a personal experience of this rare complaint as it affected one with some medical knowledge. It is almost a duty, and it is certainly a pleasure, to lay my experiences before my colleagues for the benefit of other sufferers. My pleasure in doing so is enhanced by the fact that I am enabled to record some of the great kindnesses that I have received from numerous professional friends, who with their skill and sympathy have made my path in life smoother and my burdens lighter. It is in gratitude to them that I have endeavoured to write this medical history, to which scientific value