At a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4,
1894, there was shown a girl of five and a half who weighed 250
pounds. She was just shedding her first teeth; owing to the
excess of fat on her short limbs she toddled like an infant.
There was no tendency to obesity in her family. Up to the
eleventh month she was nursed by her mother, and subsequently fed
on cabbage, milk, and vegetable soup. This child, who was of
Russian descent, was said never to perspire.
Cameron describes a child who at birth weighed 14 pounds, at
twelve months she weighed 69 pounds, and at seventeen months 98
pounds. She was not weaned until two years old and she then
commenced to walk. The parents were not remarkably large. There
is an instance of a boy of thirteen and a half who weighed 214
pounds. Kaestner speaks of a child of four who weighed 82 pounds,
and Benzenberg noted a child of the same age who weighed 137.
Hildman, quoted by Picat, speaks of an infant three years and ten
months old who had a girth of 30 inches. Hillairet knew of a
child of five which weighed 125 pounds. Botta cites several
instances of preternaturally stout children. One child died at
the age of three weighing 90 pounds, another at the age of five
weighed 100 pounds, and a third at the age of two weighed 75
pounds.
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