ed until it was two
years old and it did not walk until four. The parents of this child
were of ordinary stature.

At the "Cosmorama" in Regent Street in 1848 there was a Dutch boy of
ten exhibited. He was said to be the son of an apothecary and at the
time of his birth weighed nine pounds. He continued to grow for six
months and at the expiration of that time weighed 12 pounds; since
then, however, he had only increased four pounds. The arrest of
development seemed to be connected with hydrocephalus; although the
head was no larger than that of a child of two, the anterior fontanelle
was widely open, indicating that there was pressure within. He was
strong and muscular; grave and sedate in his manner; cheerful and
affectionate; his manners were polite and engaging; he was expert in
many kinds of handicraft; he possessed an ardent desire for knowledge
and aptitude for education.

Rawdon described a boy of five and a half, at the Liverpool Infirmary
for Children, who weighed 10 1/2 pounds and whose height was 28 or 29
inches. He uttered no articulate sound, but evidently possessed the
sense of hearing. His eyes were large and well formed, but he was
apparently blind. He suckled, cut his teeth normally, but had tonic
contractions of the spine and was an apparent idiot.

Hardie mentions a girl of sixteen and a half whose height was 40 inches
and weight 35 1/2 pounds, including her clothes. During intrauterine
life her mother had good health and both her parents had always been
healthy. She seemed to stop growing at her fourth year. Her intellect
was on a par with the rest of her body. Sometimes she would talk and
again she would preserve rigid silence for a long time. She had a
shuffling walk with a tendency to move on her toes. Her temporary teeth
were shed in the usual manner and had been replaced by canines and
right first molar and incisors on the right side. There was no
indication of puberty except a slight development of the hips. She was
almost totally imbecile, but could tell her letters and spell short
words. The circumference of the head was 19 inches, and Ross pointed
out that the tendon-reflexes were well marked, as well as the
ankle-clonus; he diagnosed the case as one of parencephalus. Figure
162 represents a most curious case of a dwarf named Carrie Akers, who,
though only 34 inches tall, weighed 309 pounds.

In recent years several dwarfs have commanded the popular attention,
but none so much as "G