Enderle A
Orthopaedic Department, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany.
J R Soc Med. 1998 May;91(5):273-8. doi: 10.1177/014107689809100511.
A collection of 893 historical picture postcards from 1900 to 1935, depicting dwarfs and giants, was analysed from medical and psychosocial viewpoints. In conditions such as 'bird headed dwarfism', achondroplasia, cretinism, so-called Aztecs or pinheads, Grebe chondrodysplasia, and acromegalic gigantism, the disorder could be diagnosed easily. In hypopituitary dwarfism, exact diagnosis was more difficult because of heterogeneity. The most common conditions depicted were pituitary dwarfism and achondroplasia. Most of those with gigantism had pituitary gigantism and acromegaly. Brothers and sisters or parents and their children provided evidence of mendelian inheritance of some of these disorders. The cards suggest that being put on show provided, at least in some cases, social benefits.
对893张1900年至1935年间描绘侏儒和巨人的历史明信片进行了收集，并从医学和社会心理角度进行了分析。在诸如“鸟头侏儒症”、软骨发育不全、呆小症、所谓的阿兹特克人或小头症、格雷贝软骨发育异常以及肢端肥大性巨人症等病症中，疾病很容易被诊断出来。在垂体性侏儒症中，由于其异质性，准确诊断更为困难。明信片上描绘最常见的病症是垂体性侏儒症和软骨发育不全。大多数患有巨人症的人患有垂体性巨人症和肢端肥大症。兄弟姐妹或父母及其子女为其中一些疾病的孟德尔遗传提供了证据。这些明信片表明，至少在某些情况下，被展览能带来社会福利。
