OBESITY IN A CHILD.

Editor, "Indian Mkdical Gazette." Sie,?The following particulars of excessive obesity in a child, aged fifteen months old, may prove interesting:?The child's height is of ordinary height, but it weighs 35fts. Circumference of chest at the level of the nipples is To

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24 inches.

Circumference of abdomen at the level of the inches. Circumference of upper arm at the thickest part, 8 inches; of forearm, 7\ inches; of thigh, 15^ inches; of leg, 9 inches. The limbs of both sides are of equal eize. The obesity is general throughout the body.

umbilicus, 27%

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COLACCO,

Badoel, Cudclapah.

Civil

Apothecary.