The bibliography has recently been updated and divided into different sections to support different needs.

The books about acromegaly is a list of books currently available via amazon.

The complete bibliography contains all the references to date that I have entered onto my database 217 records including the majority of those with photographs.

The references are in approximately Harvard format but with some data needing completing and additional notes reminding me of information to add to the main text. There are also links following these references to the following:

• [Image page] This includes all or a selection of the photographs from the reference.
• [Reference] This is either a link to the scanned reference, actual text or where it exists an Open URL to the original article in electronic format.
• [Web URL] This is a link to a web based resource using the sites Unique Resource Locator. In some instances this will only be at the top level of the domain as deep linking is an infringement of copyright.

The subject based reference lists are there to help researchers into particular aspects of acromegaly or gigantism e.g. Giants and Art, Palaeopathology, Early medical descriptions etc.

As time permits I also hope to add a complete list of all references pre-1960 on acromegaly i.e. those not available via Medline. For those who can't wait the key bibliographic references for acromegaly pre-1960 are listed below.

Bibliographic references

Atkinson FRB. (1932) Acromegaly. London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson Ltd. Plate frontispiece. Bibliography 197 - 260. (All references pre- 1930)

Atkinson FRB. (1936) Acromegaly, from a study of the literature 1931-1934. Endokrinologie 17 (5) p. 308-20.

Atkinson FRB. (1938) Acromegaly, description of papers reported in 1935, 1936, 1937. Endokrinologie 20 (4) p. 245-57.

Quarterly Cumulated Index Medicus from 1938 - 1956.

National Library of Medicine. (1898) Index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon Generals Office. 2nd Series. Washington: Gov’t Printing Office. p. 130-3.

National Library of Medicine. (1918) Index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon Generals Office. Third series. Washington: Gov’t Printing Office. 1 p. 145-52.

National Library of Medicine. (1936) Index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon Generals Office. 4th Series. Washington: Gov’t Printing Office. 1 p. 129-32.

National Library of Medicine. (1961) Index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon Generals Office. 5th Series. Washington: Gov’t Printing Office. 2 p. 21. 

Statistics 

These statistics refer both to my research in terms of the initial use of material from Ninewells Medical School Library, Dundee University and the change in number of references with time from Index Medicus.

Table 10.1 Total numbers of references in Index Medicus, Ninewells Medical School Library, and from those in the library the number with clinical photographs and country of origin.

Figure 10.1 Graph of number of references in Index Medicus with time (Requires Flash player 6 to view)

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Incomplete data available for 1956 - 1959. Peak corresponds with introduction and use of Bromocriptine.