Acromegaly : a personal experience / by Leonard Portal Mark.

  • Mark, Leonard Portal.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Acromegaly : a personal experience / by Leonard Portal Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No doubt my poor mother had been influenced by the popular prejudice that a child born ' the wrong way' is sure to be unlucky. This was amongst those things which she had kept and pondered in her heart, only revealing it to me at the end of thirty- nine years. This prejudice dates back to the time of the ancient Romans, who were so sure such children would meet with ill luck if allowed to live, that it was a common thing to strangle them at once. The name of Agrippa was given to them. Personal History. My early life was spent in the Sunny South, on the shores of the Mediterranean. I went to Mar- seilles at the age of three, and lived there for seven- teen years, being educated at the Lycee. Cricket and football were then unknown in French schools, so I grew up without going through any training in the ordinary athletics, except riding and swimming, but even in my childhood I had a good dealing of mountain-climbing. I was much en- couraged in this by my father, an old Rugbeian, proud of having been at the school in the time of Arnold, and who, seeing his three sons deprived of the education gained in the cricket field, thought mountain-climbing the best substitute. We had many opportunities for this during our