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of that time, was fed also with spoon-meat, viz. porridge and 

 milk or small beer, twice a-day. At the time of his birth he 

 was rather a puny child, and showed no signs whatever of ex- 

 traordinary growth, till he was at the age of six months, when 

 his grandmother first observed his sexual organs to be unusu- 

 ally large. This she remembers well, because, afraid of this 

 being made the subject of remark by the gossips in her neigh- 

 bourhood, she warned her daughter not to expose or undress 

 the child before them. The first time the attention of the 

 writer of this paper was attracted to this boy was in the sum- 

 mer of 1826, when he accidentally saw the child naked, and was 

 very much struck with the appearance of the sexual organs, 

 which were certainly more developed, though he was not then 

 quite four years old, than those of most young men at four- 

 teen or fifteen years of age. The pubes or rather the root of 

 the penis at the pubes, was covered on the sides with long light 

 coloured hair. No measurements were taken at that time. 



At present, he is six years and two months old. His height 

 4 feet ^^Q inches. He weighs 74 pounds avoirdupois, with 

 his clothes on. The length of his body is remarkable, being 

 20 inches from the collar bone to the pubes ; the length of the 

 head, neck, and lower extremities being consequently 30 in- 

 ches, 11 of which are occupied by the head and neck: so that 

 the length of his lower extremities are only 19 inches, which is 

 less than that of his body by an inch, a proportion entirely 

 infantile. Round the lower part of his neck, he measures 14J 

 inches ; round the head immediately above the ears and eye- 

 brows 22J inches, the height of his forehead is 2 inches ; the 

 length of his face, including forehead, 6 J inches. An extraor- 

 dinary ridge runs up the middle of his forehead, in the line 

 where the frontal bone is divided in the foetus into two equal 

 parts, and which, in ordinary cases, is marked by a slight de- 

 pression. The temporal ridge of the frontal bone also pre- 

 sents a pecidiarity, having a hollow, not only on the side next 

 the temple as usual, but also on the frontal side. The perpen- 

 dicular height of the head from the meatus externus of the ear 

 to the top of the head is 5 inches. The developement of the 

 fleshy parts of the thighs and legs, arms and fore-arms, parti- 

 cularly towards the upper part of each, give a singular appear- 



