His body was covered with acne simplex and had a strong spermatic odor, but it was not known whether he had any venereal appetite.
Johnson mentions a boy of seven with severe gonorrhea complicated with buboes which he had contracted from a servant girl with whom he slept.
At the Hopital des Enfans Malades children at the breast have been observed to masturbate.

Fournier and others assert having seen infantile masturbators, and cite a case of a girl of four who was habitually addicted to masturbation from her infancy but was not detected until her fourth year; she died shortly afterward in a frightful state of marasmus.

Vogel alludes to a girl of three in whom repeated attacks of epilepsy occurred after six months' onanism.

Van Bambeke mentions three children from ten to twenty months old, two of them females, who masturbated.
Bidwell describes a boy of five years and two months who during the year previous had erections and seminal emissions.

His voice had changed and he had a downy moustache on his upper lip and hair on the pubes; his height was 4 feet 3 1/2 inches and his weight was 82 1/2 pounds.