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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VII
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An old chronicle says that in Wisnang Parish, village of Tellurge, near Tygure, in Lordship Kiburge, there was born on the 26th of May, 1548, a boy called Henry Walker, who at five years was of the height of a boy of fourteen and possessed the genitals of a man.

He carried burdens, did men's work, and in every way assisted his parents, who were of usual size.
There is a case cited by the older authors of a child born in the Jura region who at the age of four gave proof of his virility, at seven had a beard and the height of a man.

The same journal also speaks of a boy of six, 1.62 meters tall, who was perfectly proportioned and had extraordinary strength.

His beard and general appearance, together with the marks of puberty, gave him the appearance of a man of thirty.
In 1806 Dupuytren presented to the Medical Society in Paris a child 3 1/2 feet high, weighing 57 pounds, who had attained puberty.
There are on record six modern cases of early puberty in boys, one of whom died at five with the signs of premature senility; at one year he had shown signs of enlargement of the sexual organs.

There was another who at three was 3 feet 6 3/4 inches high, weighed 50 pounds, and had seminal discharges.


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