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CHAPTER VII
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She was the offspring of ordinary-sized parents, and lived in narrow and sometimes needy circumstances.

The child was intelligent and had an animated expression of countenance.
Bartholinus mentions a girl of eleven who weighed over 200 pounds.
There is an instance recorded of a young girl in Russia who weighed nearly 200 pounds when but twelve.

Wulf, quoted by Ebstein, describes a child which died at birth weighing 295 ounces.

It was well proportioned and looked like a child three months old, except that it had an enormous development of fatty tissue.

The parents were not excessively large, and the mother stated that she had had children before of the same proportions.


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