Obesity may be partial, as seen in the mammae or in the abdomen
of both women and men, or it may be general; and it is of general
obesity that we shall chiefly deal. Lipomata, being distinctly
pathologic formations, will be left for another chapter.
The cases of obesity in infancy and childhood are of considerable
interest, and we sometimes see cases that have been termed
examples of "congenital corpulency." Figure 167 represents a baby
of thirteen months that weighed 75 pounds. Figure 168 shows
another example of infantile obesity, known as "Baby Chambers."
Elliotson describes a female infant not a year old which weighed
60 pounds. There is an instance on record of a girl of four who
weighed 256 pounds Tulpius mentions a girl of five who weighed
150 pounds and had the strength of a man. He says that the
acquisition of fat did not commence until some time after birth.
Ebstein reports an instance given to him by Fisher of Moscow of a
child in Pomerania who at the age of six weighed 137 pounds and
was 46 inches tall; her girth was 46 inches and the circumference
of her head was 24 inches. She was the offspring of
ordinary-sized parents, and lived in narrow and sometimes needy
circumstances.
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