MEDICAL HERO
DEVOTION TO PROFESSION ILLUSTRATED Frew Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 9. (Received September 10, at 11.15 a.m.) The latest name to be added to the long scroll of medical heroes and martyrs is that of Dr Leonard Mark, who recently died at the age of 75. Foi 45 years, knowing himself to be suffering from a rare and dreaded diseast(acromegaly), he compiled a most careful record of his sufferings and reactions in order to assist research. He finally bequeathed his body to St, Bartholomew's Hospital, in the hope that its dissection would enable the discovery of the cause and the cure of the disease, of which little is known except it is a small tumor at the base of the brain, causing gradual enlargement of the bones of the jaw, hands, and feet, accompanied by torturing headaches.
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Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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138MEDICAL HERO Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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