Hildman, quoted by Picat, speaks of an infant three years and ten months old who had a girth of 30 inches.

Hillairet knew of a child of five which weighed 125 pounds.

Botta cites several instances of preternaturally stout children.

One child died at the age of three weighing 90 pounds, another at the age of five weighed 100 pounds, and a third at the age of two weighed 75 pounds.
Figure 170 represents Miss "Millie Josephine" of Chicago, a recent exhibitionist, who at the reputed age of thirteen was 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 422 pounds.
General Remarks .-- It has been chiefly in Great Britain and in Holland that the most remarkable instances of obesity have been seen, especially in the former country colossal weights have been recorded.
In some countries corpulency has been considered an adornment of the female sex.

Hesse-Wartegg refers to the Jewesses of Tunis, who when scarcely ten years old are subjected to systematic treatment by confinement in narrow, dark rooms, where they are fed on farinaceous foods and the flesh of young puppies until they are almost a shapeless mass of fat.