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American acromegalic giant Cecil Boling learning to walk on artificial legs

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Photograph of the American acromegalic giant Cecil Boling (1920-2000, final height 235 cm) learning to walk again on artificial legs (which reduced his height to 213 cm) at The University Hospital in Seattle, July 2, 1960. Photograph from the private collection of Wouter W de Herder. (Source: de Herder WW, Raymond WA. Neuropathic foot ulcers in the tallest patients with acromegalic gigantism: a common and significant problem. Historical overview. Pituitary 2023;26[4]:333-9. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. The photograph also appeared in the newspaper “The Joplin Globe” on July 3, 1960, among other newspapers.)