Grisolles mentions a child who was so fat at twelve months that there was constant danger of suffocation; but, marvelous to relate, it lost all its obesity when two and a half, and later was remarkable for its slender figure.

Figure 169 shows a girl born in Carbon County, Pa., who weighed 201 pounds when nine years old.
McNaughton describes Susanna Tripp, who at six years of age weighed 203 pounds and was 3 feet 6 inches tall and measured 4 feet 2 inches around the waist.

Her younger sister, Deborah, weighed 119 pounds; neither of the two weighed over 7 pounds at birth and both began to grow at the fourth month.

On October, 1788, there died at an inn in the city of York the surprising "Worcestershire Girl" at the age of five.

She had an exceedingly beautiful face and was quite active.