e. She was 4 feet in
height and larger around the breast and waist; her thigh measured 18
inches and she weighed nearly 200 pounds. In February, 1814, Mr. S.
Pauton was married to the only daughter of Thomas Allanty of Yorkshire;
although she was but thirteen she was 13 stone weight (182 pounds). At
seven years she had weighed 7 stone (98 pounds). Williams mentions
several instances of fat children. The first was a German girl who at
birth weighed 13 pounds; at six months, 42 pounds; at four years, 150
pounds; and at twenty years, 450 pounds. Isaac Butterfield, born near
Leeds in 1781, weighed 100 pounds in 1782 and was 3 feet 13 inches
tall. There was a child named Everitt, exhibited in London in 1780, who
at eleven months was 3 feet 9 inches tall and measured around the loins
over 3 feet. William Abernethy at the age of thirteen weighed 22 stone
(308 pounds) and measured 57 inches around the waist. He was 5 feet 6
inches tall. There was a girl of ten who was 1.45 meters (4 feet 9
inches) high and weighed 175 pounds. Her manners were infantile and her
intellectual development was much retarded. She spoke with difficulty
in a deep voice; she had a most voracious appetite.

At a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894,
there was shown a girl of five and a half who weighed 250 pounds. She
was just shedding her first teeth; owing to the excess of fat on her
short limbs she toddled like an infant. There was no tendency to
obesity in her family. Up to the eleventh month she was nursed by her
mother, and subsequently fed on cabbage, milk, and vegetable soup. This
child, who was of Russian descent, was said never to perspire.

Cameron describes a child who at birth weighed 14 pounds, at twelve
months she weighed 69 pounds, and at seventeen months 98 pounds. She
was not weaned until two years old and she then commenced to walk. The
parents were not remarkably large. There is an instance of a boy of
thirteen and a half who weighed 214 pounds. Kaestner speaks of a child
of four who weighed 82 pounds, and Benzenberg noted a child of the same
age who weighed 137. 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 t