Sajous's analytical cyclopædia of practical medicine . the stage in which the bony over-growth occurs belongs to adolescenceand youth, the result is gigantism andnot acromegaly. If, later on, after hav-ing belonged to youth, in which the stat-ure is continually increasing, it en-croaches upon the period of completeddevelopment, , upon that phase oflife in which no further osteogeneticgrowth takes place, the result is a com-bination or concurrence of acromegalywith gigantism. Gigantism is the acromegaly of thegrowing period; acromegaly is the gi-gantism of the period of comple
Sajous's analytical cyclopædia of practical medicine . the stage in which the bony over-growth occurs belongs to adolescenceand youth, the result is gigantism andnot acromegaly. If, later on, after hav-ing belonged to youth, in which the stat-ure is continually increasing, it en-croaches upon the period of completeddevelopment, , upon that phase oflife in which no further osteogeneticgrowth takes place, the result is a com-bination or concurrence of acromegalywith gigantism. Gigantism is the acromegaly of thegrowing period; acromegaly is the gi-gantism of the period of completed de-velopment ; acromegalogigantism is theresult of a process common to gigantismand to acromegaly, overlapping fromthe period of adolescence into that ofmaturity. These constitute three fundamentalpropositions, which soon received con-firmation from the labors of Woods, Hutchinson and of one of us, publishedin conjunction with Pierre Roy. As viewed by the adherents of theunicist theory, acromegalic gigantism isthat form of gigantism in which the. Jean-Pierre Mazas, the giant of Montastruc(profile view). (Brissaud and H. Meige.) characteristic loss of harmony betweenstructure and function finds its expres-sion, to a greater or less extent, in theusual symptoms and deformations ofacromegaly, after union of the epiphy-ses to the diaphyses has taken place,whether this union has been prompt ordelayed. 1—19 290 ACROMEGALY (LAUXrirs AND CESBRON). Jn the majority of giants almost allthe stigmata of acromegaly may berecognized. Sometimes but slightlymarked, the significant changes can bedetected only upon careful inspection; presence of acromegaly in the personbefore him. In the course of our investigations ongigantism we were led to establish awell-defined distinction between two at other times very pronounced, tliey types of giants, viz., the i)ifa)itile giant,attract immediate attention and are in whom the connecting cartilages have
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