Volume 1
A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.
- Adolph Wilhelm Otto
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![por lif] Zl THIRD SECTION. Of Vices relating to Size. § 15. Vices of this kind deviate from the normal bulk in two ways, that is, by diminution and by enlargement; they may be, further, either original or produced at a later period, but in many cases it is difficult to distinguish between the two;' finally, they may exist only at the time when they are observed. (1) [Changeux Sur les Nains et sur les Geants, Journ. de Physique, Vol. XIII. paer” DS § 16. The ORIGINAL IRREGULAR DIMINUTIVENESS, magnitudo im- minuta, seu parvitas genuina, may affect the whole body or only particular parts; consequently it is either GENERAL or LocaL. The first we call DWARFISHNESS, microsomia, and the beings so circumstanced DwarRrs, pumeliones, nant pyg- met.’ Such individuals are either born very small or grow but little at a subsequent period. Sometimes dwarfishness is hereditary, or affects many brothers and sisters,” especially twins and triplings; and this not unfrequently occurs in animals, especially the domestic.’ (1) Compare G. Fr. Jager Vergleichung einiger durch Fettigkeit oder kolos- sale Bildung ausgezeichneter Kinder und EINIGER ZWERGE, 8vo. Stuttgart, 1821. —Plouquet Repertor. Art. Pyzmeeus.—Virey Histoire naturelle du genre hu- main, 2d edit. Vol. II. p. 265.—Reuss Repertor. Commentat. Vol. I. p. 104, and Vol. X. p. 44 and 299.—Witnsch Unterhaltungen tiber den Menschen, 2d edit. Vol. I. p. 319.—The oberamtsactuarius Joseph Hoedle, of Endingen, is 30 inches high; Elizabeth Ralph, of Devonshire, was, in her twenty-first year, only 2 feet 10 inches high, and 20 pounds in weight, &c. There are said to have been adults of 18 and even 16 inches height. [The smallest authentic case is that of Madlle. Crachami, whose skeleton is in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, No. 7 of the Osteological Series, and measures exactly 20 inches in height; but Mr. Clift informs me that when exhibited, she was said to be only 18 inches, which must of course have been incorrect. She died in her tenth year, in the summer of 1824, at London. v. Catalogue of the Mus. Roy. Coll. Surg. in Lond. ‘There is also in the College Museum, a painting of the Corsican fairy, which measures 2 feet 74 inches high. She was exhibited in London about the same time as Byrne. v. Section 20, note 2, Among Mr. Hunter’s papers there is a memorandum, unfortunately without name or date, of “ A little dwarf woman, at Norwich, 34 inches in height,’’ which is believed, by Mr. Clitt, to refer to this painting. And it goes on to state, that she cohabited “with a great fellow she called her husband,” and became pregnant. She went her full time, but as might have been expected, from the smallness of the pelvis, the labour was difficult, and it was necessary to open the child’s head; after which, the delivery was effected. The child measured 22 inches; “so that,” says the writer of the memorandum, “if it could have stood upright in utero, it would have risen above](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
