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
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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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![development of the whole body;* the latter, however, also occurs without irregular enlargement.’ The PARTIAL and original irregular magnitude is also not unfrequently consequent on too great nutrition of certain parts of the body, and occurs most frequently in such monsters as have defective formation in other parts. (1) Compare below the foetus. (1*) [A very remarkable instance of precocious development is given in Phil. Trans. Vol. XLIII. 1745, by Rev. Mr. Almon and Mr. Dawkes, of a boy, aged three years and one month, who was 3 feet 11 inches high. But a more remarkable instance is Philip Howorth, of whom an account is given by Mr. White, Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, in Med. Chir. Trans. Vol. I. p- 276, who arrived at premature puberty between two and three years old, and at three years measured 3 feet 2 inches in height. Mr. White has kindly in- formed me that he arrived at 5 feet, his full height, at the end of six years; he is now alive, and twenty-two years old, is married, and has one child, a girl, and follows the occupation of a ladies’ shoemaker. His appearance does not differ from that which persons of the same period of life possess; that is, no marks of premature old age, either by grey hairs, or the countenance. T.] (2) Compare Plouquet Repertorium Art. Gigas.—Reuss Repertor. Commentat. Vol. I. p. 101, and Vol. X. p. 42.— Wiinsch Unterhaltungen iiber den Menschen, 2d edit—Virey Histoire naturelle du genre humain, 2d edit. Vol. II. p. 257. The greatest size in man appears to be 8 feet 1—2. [Charles Byrne, commonly called the Irish Giant, was twenty-two years old at the time of his death, in 1783; he measured, when dead, 8 feet 4 inches; neither of his family were of extraordinary size. His skeleton is in the Hunterian Collection, Mus. Royal Coll. Surg. Lond. and measures 7 feet 84 inches in height. T.] (2*) [ Mr. Clift mentioned to me, that about twenty-five years ago he had seen a horse 20 hands high, which was exhibited in Piccadilly. T.] (3) G. F. Jéger Vergleichung einiger durch Fettigkeit oder kolossale Bildung ausgezeichneter Kinder und einiger Zwerge. 8vo. Stuttgart, 182]1.—'Meckel Handb. der pathol. Anat. Vol. II. Part II. p. 121.—Diez, in the Russ. Sammlung f. Naturwissenchaft und Heilkunst, Vol. I]. Part II. p. 243, describes two very fat children of the same parents. (4) Meckel Vol. II. Part I. p. 2.—Jager.— Reuss Vol. X. p. 298.—Later cases are described, by Harless Rhein. Jahrb. der Medic. und Chir. Vol. I. Part II.— Ulrich in the same, Vol. II. Part II. p. 194.—v. Lenhossek ind. medic. Jahrb. d. K. K. Oester. Staates. Vol. VI. Part II 1.—Bréschet in Journ. général de Médec. No. 291, Feb. 1821.—J. F. South in London med. chir. Transact. Vol. XII. Part I. p. 76.—Descuret in Nouv. Journ. de Médecine, Vol. VII. p. 100.—v. Duchamp Maladies de la croissance. Paris, 1823.—D’ Outrepont Gemeinsame deutsh. Zeitschr. f. Geburtskunde. Vol. I. Part I. p. 151.—Diefenbach, in Meckel’s Archiv f. die Anat. u. Physiol. 1827, No. 3, p. 367.—Hufeland’s Journal, Sept. 1827, p. 124. (5) For example, in the silk worms, Bomspyx Mort, which occasionally, after the fourth casting of the skin, and previous to spinning, change into moths, which retain considerable resemblance to the grub, and thus at once present an instance of premature development and retarded formation. v. Miller Decou- verte d’un papillon a téte de chenille (Phalena Vinula) in the Mémoir présent, Vol. VI. p. 508.—Majoli in the Giornale di fisica, etc. del regno Italico, 1813, Vol. V. p. 399. Compare Mecklel’s D. Archiv. f. d. physiol. Vol. II. p. 542. § 21. The ACQUIRED MAGNITUDE appears as a general condition of the animal body, only in the form of excessive and morbid](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
