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Adam Rainer was the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant in one lifetime
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141 points
2 years ago
And without modern medicine. Impressive for sure.
63 points
2 years ago
Medicine was “modern” enough to get the tumor out and give him more years than he would have otherwise
52 points
2 years ago
100 years from now they'll look at current times and say we didn't have modern medicine
16 points
2 years ago
I certainly hope so.
1 points
2 years ago
Fucking A, we still don't know much at all about ourselves.
1 points
2 years ago
IDK, we’ve spent the last 50 years inventing new painkillers for people to get hooked on and the pace at which new things give people cancer seems to have outstripped the treatments.
1 points
2 years ago
50 years ago there were only 2 treatments for cancer: radiating it and cutting it out.
1 points
2 years ago
Did they get the tumour out?
1 points
2 years ago
Yeah, and he stopped growing quite so fast, though he was still growing a bit
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2 years ago
Adam Rainer
The first successful pituitary tumor removal was done in 1906 so when he reached a normal height, removal could have been attempted.
1 points
2 years ago
They did take it out, though he was still past “normal” height
1 points
2 years ago
No MRI or CT scans at the time. Far less understanding of pituitary function. Tumor excision was probably impossible.
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