Word: dwarfism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech of about five minutes duration. Hoffman will then give his part, "The Need For a New Credo," in which he will bring out the present day necessity for new set of beliefs and possible revision of Christian morals. This will be followed by Futcher's part, "Dwarfism and Gigantism," dealing with effect of the pituitary gland on human growth. These two topics follow the usual policy of having one touching on contemporary life and standards, and the other on a subject of learning of general interest. Last year there were four parts including the Latin greeting, and the reduction...
Medicine has neglected the study of dwarfism. Stature of four feet has become conventional demarkation between normal and little people. Midgets are well-proportioned dwarfs. True dwarfs have big heads, shoulders, chests and buttocks, short extremities. Causes of dwarfism include heredity, disease of the thyroid, pituitary or kidneys, disturbances in the changing of cartilage into bone, or essential infantilism. If Europe produces more dwarfs (and midgets) than the U. S., the explanation may be with Europe's greater population (550,000,000 to 122,775,000 which statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism...