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Dec. 12 The giant has his temperature taken in his private room at the hospital. He has a special bed to take his extra inches. Doctors Try to Stop Him growing Seven Feet Nine Inches, And Yoshimiitsu Still, Crows: Yoshimitau Matsu Matsuzaka, 22-year-old farmer's son just can't stop growing. Already he is 7 ft. 9 ins. and weighs 255 lbs. When this enormous youth lost strength and just couldn't keep up with himself, he was admitted to Tokyo's University Hospila and there Professor Kejntaro Shimizu, the brain Surgeon, examined him and decided on an operation to try and halt his growth, which he claimed was due to abonnality in the pituitary gland.Even while waiting for the operation, Yoshimitsu increased by five inches. Although still in his hospital for observation, since the Operation Yoshimotsu has gained strength and his growth has almost halted.He is being treated with the hormones, as he was deficient almost entirely insex hormones. Hecan walk half-a-mile, and his intelligence quotient is 100. He has an enormous appetite, but a part from a certain natural Shyness at his size, is perfectly normal. The most outstanding case of giantism occurred in 1890 in Europe, when the man reach the height of 8ft 7 ins. Never before in records has there been such a case among the Japanese race

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