Her parents were of normal stature.
Not long since the papers recorded the death of Lucia Zarete, a Mexican girl, whose exact proportions were never definitely known; but there is no doubt that she was the smallest midget ever exhibited In this country.

Her exhibitor made a fortune with her and her salary was among the highest paid to modern "freaks." Miss H.Moritz, an American dwarf, at the age of twenty weighed 36 pounds and was only 22 inches tall.
Precocious development is characterized by a hasty growth of the subject, who at an early period of life attains the dimensions of an adult.

In some of these instances the anomaly is associated with precocious puberty, and after acquiring the adult growth at an early age there is an apparent cessation of the development.

In adult life the individual shows no distinguishing characters.
The first to be considered will be those cases, sometimes called "man-boys," characterized by early puberty and extraordinary development in infancy.

Histories of remarkable children have been transmitted from the time of Vespasian.