The child was intelligent and had an animated
expression of countenance.
Bartholinus mentions a girl of eleven who weighed over 200
pounds. There is an instance recorded of a young girl in Russia
who weighed nearly 200 pounds when but twelve. Wulf, quoted by
Ebstein, describes a child which died at birth weighing 295
ounces. It was well proportioned and looked like a child three
months old, except that it had an enormous development of fatty
tissue. The parents were not excessively large, and the mother
stated that she had had children before of the same proportions.
Grisolles mentions a child who was so fat at twelve months that
there was constant danger of suffocation; but, marvelous to
relate, it lost all its obesity when two and a half, and later
was remarkable for its slender figure. Figure 169 shows a girl
born in Carbon County, Pa., who weighed 201 pounds when nine
years old. McNaughton describes Susanna Tripp, who at six years
of age weighed 203 pounds and was 3 feet 6 inches tall and
measured 4 feet 2 inches around the waist. Her younger sister,
Deborah, weighed 119 pounds; neither of the two weighed over 7
pounds at birth and both began to grow at the fourth month. On
October, 1788, there died at an inn in the city of York the
surprising "Worcestershire Girl" at the age of five.
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