. The endocrine organs; an introduction to the study of internal secretion . produced by actual destruction of nerve-fibres,for it has frequently been noticed that after operation for removal of thetumour or alleviation of the pressure produced by it the patients vision isspeedily restored. Accompanying or preceding the visual symptoms certainother signs are developed which point to the advent of a peculiar affection(figs. 73, 74), termed acromegaly1 by Marie (1886). The affection to whichthis name was given by him had been already described by others, andits association with enlargement of th
. The endocrine organs; an introduction to the study of internal secretion . produced by actual destruction of nerve-fibres,for it has frequently been noticed that after operation for removal of thetumour or alleviation of the pressure produced by it the patients vision isspeedily restored. Accompanying or preceding the visual symptoms certainother signs are developed which point to the advent of a peculiar affection(figs. 73, 74), termed acromegaly1 by Marie (1886). The affection to whichthis name was given by him had been already described by others, andits association with enlargement of the pituitary body had been re-cognised. It is, nevertheless, to Marie—associated later with Marinesco—that we owe the first complete account of the syndrome in question. Thename which he bestowed upon it expresses its most prominent sign, hypertrophie singuliere non-congenitale des extremites superieures, in- , point, extremity ; pfyas, Clinical Evidence regarding Functions of Pituitary 107ferieures et cephalique —a marked non-congenital enlargement of the.
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