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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    material help, as it enables me to fix the exact time when certain symptoms, which at first could not be accounted for, made their appearance, there being no suspicion of acromegaly, but which now, when I look back, seem quite enough to prove what a long time the disease has had hold of me. I have also been able to give definite dates for the various phases through which I have passed, and to observe the sequence of the various troubles connected with my ears, eyes, nose, heart, legs, etc. It has helped me to understand what is of great interest to me—viz., how the disease has influenced my life, how at certain times, without my know- ledge, it must have been the prime motive which impelled me to take some particular course of action—‘ a god stronger than me, that came to lord it over me.’ Although, in the following chapters, I deal with each symptom separately, describing how it has affected me, and recording occasions when it may have been a determining factor in my career, yet it is important for the reader to understand how these symptoms are interwoven and intimately associated one with another ; how at times they seem to react upon each other, and how at other times they affect me simultaneously. In somewhat like manner all the parts for the instruments of an orchestra are written separately