gh no spermatozoa were found in the semen issued. He
showed no fondness for the opposite sex. The history of this rapid
growth says that he was not unlike other children until the third year,
when after wading in a small stream several hours he was taken with a
violent chill, after which his voice began to change and his sexual
organs to develop.

Blanc quotes the case described by Cozanet in 1875 of Louis Beran, who
was born on September 29, 1869, at Saint-Gervais, of normal size. At
the age of six months his dimensions and weight increased in an
extraordinary fashion. At the age of six years he was 1.28 meters high
(4 feet 2 1/3 inches) and weighed 80 pounds. His puberty was
completely manifested in every way; he eschewed the society of children
and helped his parents in their labors. Campbell showed a lad of
fourteen who had been under his observation for ten years. When fifteen
months old this prodigy had hair on his pubes and his external genitals
were abnormally larger end at the age of two years they were fully
developed and had not materially changed in the following years. At
times he manifested great sexual excitement. Between four and seven
years he had seminal discharges, but it was not determined whether the
semen contained spermatozoa. He had the muscular development of a man
of twenty-five. He had shaved several years. 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. He was 3 feet 4 inches high, 4 feet 5 inches in
circumference, and weighed 220 pounds. He had prominent eyebrows, black
eyes, and his complexion resembled that of a fat cook in the heat.