The glands of life : a contribution to the study of organotherapy . istinct feminine contour to the body. The mentality isless vigorous and the skin becomes thin and delicate likea womans. Even in acromegaly, which is characterizedby very coarse skin and hypertrichosis, after the stageof hypopituitaryism is established, the skin becomes lesscoarse and the subcutaneous tissue less boggy. Atautopsy the subcutaneous fat is found to be lighter incolor than the normal, which would seem to indicate adifference in chemical composition of this abnormal course, the skeletal development is not in
The glands of life : a contribution to the study of organotherapy . istinct feminine contour to the body. The mentality isless vigorous and the skin becomes thin and delicate likea womans. Even in acromegaly, which is characterizedby very coarse skin and hypertrichosis, after the stageof hypopituitaryism is established, the skin becomes lesscoarse and the subcutaneous tissue less boggy. Atautopsy the subcutaneous fat is found to be lighter incolor than the normal, which would seem to indicate adifference in chemical composition of this abnormal course, the skeletal development is not influenced byhypopituitaryism either in the normal or in the acrome-galic subject after epiphyseal attachment has taken place,and a full skeletal development is established. Cretinism, which is a form of arrested development,will be described in a separate chapter. Case No. i. April 15, 1913. Age 19; occupationbaker, single. Family history: All healthy, but shortin stature. Previous history: Ordinary diseases ofchildhood; otherwise negative, except little rheumatic. ^**«%,ii^^--
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