Acromegaly : a personal experience / by Leonard Portal Mark.

  • Mark, Leonard Portal.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Acromegaly : a personal experience / by Leonard Portal Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This is especially the case when I have been feeling very acromegalic while out walking, and been so overcome that it was difficult for me to get home. During the last winter months, when I daily applied a faradic current to my feet on account of my sore toes, I have suffered decidedly less from the acromegalic state. But, as mentioned above, owing to my feet being so weak and sore, I have been obliged to keep much more quiet. This acromegalic state is a physical one. But it does, to a certain extent, affect one's mental capacities, which become depressed by the helplessness and the desire to avoid any effort, mental or physical. One has not ' that alacrity of spirit one was wont to have.' But even when the state is very bad one can master it by any very strong desire or emotion. With an effort one can ' pull oneself together.' But a corresponding state of collapse follows with an extra feeling of weakness. Two good instances which show this have happened to me lately. One morning, when I was feeling very acromegalic, and probably looking so, I must have been spotted as an easy prey by a gang of pickpockets, who surrounded and hustled me, as I wanted to enter a shop in a crowded thoroughfare near my house. I suddenly noticed that my watch- chain was hanging loose, and that my watch was gone. The thieves at once dispersed, but I raised