Abstract
EXCESSIVE GENITAL DEVELOPMENT in a mongolian idiot is a rare occurrence and is especially inter-esting in view of recent studies (1) indicating that mongolism may be etiologically related to a deficiency of the basophils of the anterior pituitary gland. Church (2) was of the opinion that because mongols exhibited such strikingly similar symptoms, the underlying factor resided either in the sex or other glands of internal secretion. Timme (3) in 1930 ex-pressed the view that the pituitary played an important role in mongolism. In a female mongol of six weeks Gordon (4) observed histologically the absence of basophils and the prominence of eosinophilic cells.
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