A MEDICAL MARTYR
SUFFERED FOR 45 YEARS
RECORD OF RARE DISEASE
EFFORTS TO AID RESEARCH
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 12.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept, 9. 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. For 45 years, knowing himself to he suffering from the rare and dreaded disease acromegaly, Dr. Mark _ 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 dissection would enable the discovery of the cause and cure of the disease, of which little is known, except that it is a. small tumour at the base of the brain, causing a gradual enlargement of the bones of the law, hands and feet, accompanied by torturing headaches.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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