Borellus details a description of a giant child. There is quoted from
Boston a the report of a boy of fifteen months weighing 92 pounds who
died at Coney Island. He was said to have been of phenomenal size from
infancy and was exhibited in several museums during his life.

Desbois of Paris mentions an extraordinary instance of rapid growth in
a boy of eleven who grew 6 inches in fifteen days.

Large and Small New-born Infants.--There are many accounts of new-born
infants who were characterized by their diminutive size. On page 66 we
have mentioned Usher's instance of twins born at the one hundred and
thirty-ninth day weighing each less than 11 ounces; Barker's case of a
female child at the one hundred and fifty-eighth day weighing 1 pound;
Newinton's case of twins at the fifth month, one weighing 1 pound and
the other 1 pound 3 1/2 ounces; and on page 67 is an account of Eikam's
five-months' child, weighing 8 ounces. Of full-term children Sir
Everard Home, in his Croonian Oration in 1824, speaks of one borne by a
woman who was traveling with the baggage of the Duke of Wellington's
army. At her fourth month of pregnancy this woman was attacked and
bitten by a monkey, but she went to term, and a living child was
delivered which weighed but a pound and was between 7 and 8 inches
long. It was brought to England and died at the age of nine, when 22
inches high. Baker mentions a child fifty days' old that weighed 1
pound 13 ounces and was 14 inches long. Mursick describes a living
child who at birth weighed but 1 3/4 pounds. In June, 1896, a baby
weighing 1 3/4 pounds was born at the Samaritan Hospital, Philadelphia.

Scott has recorded the birth of a child weighing 2 1/2 pounds, and
another 3 1/4 pounds. In the Chicago Inter-Ocean there is a letter
dated June 20, 1874, which says that Mrs. J. B. McCrum of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, gave birth to a boy and girl that could be held in the palm
of the hand of the nurse. Their aggregate weight was 3 pounds 4 ounces,
one weighing 1 pound 8 ounces, the other 1 pound 12 ounces. They were
less than 8 inches long and perfectly formed; they were not only alive
but extremely vivacious.

There is an account of female twins born in 1858 before term. One
weighed 22 1/2 ounces, and over its arm, forearm, and hand one could
easily pass a wedding-ring. The other weighed 24 ounces. They both
lived to adult life; the larger married and was the mother of two
children, which she bore easily. The