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Lucia Xarate (San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas, 2 gennaio 1864 – Sierra Nevada, 15 gennaio 1890) è stata la persona più leggera al mondo nella storia della medicina. Alla nascita pesava 1,1 kg e a 17 anni pesava 2,13 kg.
Lucia Xarate (Mexico) (1863–89) of San Carlos, Mexico, an emaciated ateleiotic dwarf of 67 cm (26.8 in), who weighed 1.1 kg (2.8lb) at birth, weighed only 2.13 kg (4.7 lb) at the age of 17. She fattened up to 5.9 kg (13lb) by her 20th birthday.
Lucia Xarate ( San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas, 2 gennaio 1864 – Sierra Nevada, 15 gennaio 1890) è stata la persona più leggera al mondo nella storia della medicina. Alla nascita pesava 1,1 kg e a 17 anni pesava 2,13 kg. A 20 anni ingrassò fino a 5,9 kg .
Lucía Zárate (January 2, 1864 – January 15, 1890) was a Mexican entertainer with dwarfism who performed in sideshows. Zárate is the first person to have been identified with Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II. [2] .
Pretty and gregarious, Lucía Zárate was just twenty inches tall. A celebrity after her ‘display’ at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, Lucía’s extraordinary, heartbreaking story is one of exploitation by greedy sideshow hucksters and a fishbowl existence on the road, from New York to Victorian London. Read More >>
Lucia Zarate was a popular sideshow performer in the late 1800s and was billed as the human doll for the fact that she was only 24 inches tall and weighed only 4.7 pounds, a world record to this...
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No surprise that the author is an award-winner. It tells the poignant story of Mexican-born Lucía Zárate, who at 20 inches tall and just four pounds in weight remains the world’s smallest woman. Lucía made her debut at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876.
