Intellectual Dwarfs.--It must be remarked, however, that many of
the dwarfs before the public have been men of
extraordinary-intelligence, possibly augmented by comparison. In
a postmortem discussed at a meeting of the Natural History
Society at Bonn in 1868 it was demonstrated by Schaufhausen that
in a dwarf subject the brain weighed 1/19 of the body, in
contradistinction to the average proportion of adults, from 1 to
30 to 1 to 44. The subject was a dwarf of sixty-one who died in
Coblentz, and was said to have grown after his thirtieth year.
His height was 2 feet 10 inches and his weight 45 pounds. The
circumference of the head was 520 mm. and the brain weighed
1183.33 am. and was well convoluted. This case was one of simple
arrest of development, affecting all the organs of the body; he
was not virile. He was a child of large parents; had two brothers
and a sister of ordinary size and two brothers dwarfs, one 6
inches higher and the other his size.
Several personages famous in history have been dwarfs. Attila,
the historian Procopius, Gregory of Tours, Pepin le Bref, Charles
III, King of Naples, and Albert the Grand were dwarfs. About the
middle of the seventeenth century the French episcopacy possessed
among its members a dwarf renowned for his intelligence.
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