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Last week this adventure was on U. S. doctors' tongues, for the Journal of the American Medical Association had just published a lengthy thoroughgoing account of Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. who, the author asserted, "exceeds . . . every other documented case of gigantism on record in medical literature." Last Monday, when Robert Wadlow celebrated his nineteenth birthday, he was 8 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 435 lb., was still growing...
...Harold Wadlow, an Alton engineer, and his wife had no intimation that this first of their five children was going to be extraordinary. They and all their known ancestors were of normal size. Their firstborn, who arrived on Washington's Birthday, 1918, weighed only 8½ lb. at birth. He began to grow fast at once. At six months he weighed 30 Ib. Year later he weighed as much as a normal six-year-old boy. When he was six years old and in the first grade he had to put on long pants because the biggest boys...
When Robert Wadlow was 9 years old he was taller than his father and could toss him around. He stood 6 ft. and weighed 178 Ib. The "express wagon" he played with was guaranteed to support the weight of three grown...
When Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. was 9 he could lift his 150-lb. father. By last week Robert Wadlow, 18, had become the biggest man in the world, but he could not lift even his small brother (see cut). He stands 8 ft. 3¾ in., weighs 390 Ib., wears size 39 shoes ($86 a pair). During the past year he gained 2 in. in height, continues to grow, may not reach his full growth until...
...Robert Wadlow's giantism is due to dysfunction of the small, chestnut-like pituitary gland, which lies under the front part of the brain. Among the many results which follow pituitary disorder is muscular weakness. Vast Robert Wadlow must move slowly and deliberately, lest he drop things or stumble. At Shurtleff College, where he is a freshman, he ranks well above the average. His best subject is German. When he graduates he expects to become a lawyer...