in circumference. Castelli alludes to endemic
microcephaly among some of the peoples of Asia. We also find it
in the Caribbean Islands, and from the skulls and portraits of
the ancient Aztecs we are led to believe that they were also
microcephalic.
Two creatures of celebrity were Maximo and Bartola, who for
twenty-five years have been shown in America and in Europe under
the name of the "Aztecs" or the "Aztec children". They were male
and female and very short, with heads resembling closely the
bas-reliefs on the ancient Aztec temples of Mexico. Their facial
angle was about 45 degrees, and they had jutting lips and little
or no chin. They wore their hair in an enormous bunch to magnify
the deformity. These curiosities were born in Central America and
were possibly half Indian and Negro. They were little better than
idiots in point of intelligence.
Figure 92 represents a microcephalic youth known as the "Mexican
wild boy," who was shown with the Wallace circus.
Virchow exhibited a girl of fourteen whose face was no larger
than that of a new-born child, and whose head was scarcely as
large as a man's fist. Magitot reported a case of a microcephalic
woman of thirty who weighed 70 pounds.
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