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...Alton Giant, reports Dr. Humberd, has good posture for his size and weight, but droops when he sits. The boy's voice "is a weak bass, thick, husky, mumbling and comparable to the enunciation of a patient with an acute quinsy...
...nose is 2 in. wide. His hands are a foot long. His fingers are double jointed and, comments Dr. Humberd, "curl themselves up in bizarre positions and assume ungainly and gruesome postures." His feet "are disproportionally large and he is very flatfooted. His toes are misshapen...
...giants have trouble with their feet. Robert Wadlow has no sensations of touch, pain or temperature in his feet. Says Dr. Humberd: "He is unaware of a wrinkle in his sock or a foreign body in his shoe until a blister, followed by an ulcer, is formed." His ears are oversize, his heart in proper proportion, genitalia small but normal...
Concludes Dr. Humberd: "I think that the lad's height is still actively increasing...
...asserting that Robert Wadlow exceeds all giants in Medical History, Dr. Humberd escapes giving a direct lie to the Bible (Goliath, 9 ft. 9 in. ; KingOg of Bashan, 9 ft.) ; to Roman Pliny (who reported that an Arabian giant brought to Rome was 9 ft. 9 in. tall) ; to Jewish Josephus and Roman Vitellius (both reported a Jew named Eleazar...