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I HAVE read with great interest the description of the Gardarene skull given by Sir Arthur Keith in his “New Discoveries relating to the Antiquity of Man”. No pathologist will, I think, doubt that the skull is acromegalic, and this raises the interesting question: Was there anything in the terribly hard life of the Icelandic and Greenland colonists that led to pituitary disorder and so to acromegaly?
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SELIGMAN, C. Acromegaly among the old Northmen. Nature 128, 221 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128221a0
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