The boy's education was defective from his failure to attend school.
The accompanying illustration represents a boy of five years and three months of age whose height at this time was 4 feet and his physical development far beyond that usual at this age, his external genitals resembling those of a man of twenty.

His upper lip was covered by a mustache, and the hirsute growth elsewhere was similarly precocious.
The inscription on the tombstone of James Weir in the Parish of Carluke, Scotland, says that when only thirteen months old he measured 3 feet 4 inches in height and weighed 5 stone.

He was pronounced by the faculty of Edinburgh and Glasgow to be the most extraordinary child of his age.

Linnaeus saw a boy at the Amsterdam Fair who at the age of three weighed 98 pounds.

In Paris, about 1822, there was shown an infant Hercules of seven who was more remarkable for obesity than general development.