Prodigium Willinghamense; or, authentic memoirs of the more remarkable passages in the life of a boy [Thomas Hall] born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741, who, before he was three years old, was three feet, eight inches high, and had the marks of puberty / [Thomas Dawkes].

  • Dawkes, Thomas
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[1747]
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Credit: Prodigium Willinghamense; or, authentic memoirs of the more remarkable passages in the life of a boy [Thomas Hall] born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741, who, before he was three years old, was three feet, eight inches high, and had the marks of puberty / [Thomas Dawkes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    His Aunt fhewed us his Head, io which were feveral Spaces (fome as large as a Crown-piece) of Baldnefs. She kemb’d his Hair in our Prefence* and fhew'd us* that it did not come off by that Means, She laid, that fince his Ilinefs, file had obferved an infen- fible Decay of it. His Vifage, in general, together with his Gefture and Way of moving, would have given any indifferent Spec¬ tator, unacquainted with his real Age, the lively Idea of a decrepid old Many worn out with Age. But, remarking his Chiny in particular, (which now, and not many Days before) exhibi¬ ted a downy Beard, it would rather refemble that of a very old Woman ; unlefs, at the fame time, you had a proper Regard to his Whiskers (the Appearance of which, I have before mentioned,) 6
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