Word: progeria
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Progeria is a kind of dwarfism, probably caused by an abnormality in the front part of the pituitary gland where the growth hormone originates. Doctors think that progeria may be an exaggerated form of ordinary pituitary dwarfism, which merely makes people small without making them senescent. There is no known treatment for the disease, but the doctors are keeping Paul as healthy as possible with vitamins and glandular extracts...
Soon after Paul was born, his father (Dining-car Steward Charles Banks) & mother noticed that he was different from their other three children. He was as wrinkled as an old man. When Paul began to lose weight, they took him to the hospital. The doctors diagnosed his disease as progeria, the fourth recorded case...