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Many doctors have tried to measure this giant for medical records. He resents them. Nonetheless last June he let Dr. Charles Dean Humberd measure him for the recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Humberd is the coroner of Nodaway County in northwest Missouri and the only doctor in the village of Barnard, where he was born. In Barnard lived a minor politician who weighed 427 lb. when he died last year, and a 19-year-old boy who was 7 ft. tall when he went to a CCC camp last season. Those divergents from the norms of humanity started Dr. Humberd, 40, a curly-headed bookworm, on a study of gigantism. He has hats, shoes, rings and other souvenirs of most of the circus giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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