Indiana State Medical Association 53
(1960): 1313–16, and then by David
Rabin and Pauline Rabin in a letter to
the New England Journal of Medicine
on October 20, 1983. Subsequently a
number of other medical experts reached
the same conclusion. In a letter to the
journal Radiology (July 1990), Stanley
Sprecher writes:
Undoubtedly Goliath’s great size
was due to acromegaly secondary to
a pituitary macroadenoma. This
pituitary adenoma was apparently
large enough to induce visual field
deficits by its pressure on the optic
chiasm, which made Goliath unable