ACROMEGALY. HYPERTROPHY OF THE PITUITARY BODY.
Like other portions of the brain the pituitary body is subject to degenerations and diseases of various kinds. This is particularly mentioned here because of the occasional association of its hypertrophy with the trophic processes of different parts of the body. Along with an over-development of the limbs, and less frequently of the body, an enormous increase of the hypophysis has been found, and the one condition has naturally been set down as the result of the other. In some such instances, of overgrowth, however, some other blood glands, such as the thyroid or thymus, have been found to be hypertrophied, so that at present it is difficult to do more than notice the association observed between the two conditions.