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Dec. 12 Doctors try to stop him growing seven fret nine inches and Yoshimitsu still grows: Yoshimitsu Katsuzaka, 22 years 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 Hospital and there Professor Kontaro Shimizu, the brain surgeon, examined him and decided on an operation to try and halt his growth, which he claimed was due to abnormality in the pituitary gland. Eve, while waiting for the operation, Yoshimitsu increased by five inches. Although still in hospital for observation, since the operation Yoshimitsu has gui ed in strength and his growth has almost halted. He is being treated with hormones, as he was deficient almost entirely insex hormones. He canlk half-a-mile, and his intelligence quotient is 100. He has an enormous appetite, but apart from a certain natural shyness at his size, is perfectly normal. The most outstanding case of ginatism occured in 1820 in Europe, when the man reach the height of 8 ft. 7 ins. Never before in records has there been such a case among the Japanese race. Photo shows the giant Matsuzaka is learning to walk again after his hospital treatment. When he was admitted, his body had outgrown his strength and he could hardly stand up. Now he can walk half-a-mile. He has to watch out not to bang his head against a low tree boughs

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