Benvenuti describes an individual, otherwise well formed, whose head began to enlarge at seven.

At twenty-seven it measured over 37 inches in circumference and the man's face was 15 inches in height; no other portion of his body increased abnormally; his voice was normal and he was very intelligent.
He died of apoplexy at the age of thirty.
Fournier speaks of a cranium in the cabinet of the Natural History Museum of Marseilles of a man by the name of Borghini, who died in 1616.

At the time he was described he was fifty years old, four feet in height; his head measured three feet in circumference and one foot in height.

There was a proverb in Marseilles, "Apas mai de sen que Borghini," meaning in the local dialect, "Thou hast no more wit than Borghini." This man, whose fame became known all over France, was not able, as he grew older, to maintain the weight of his head, but carried a cushion on each shoulder to prop it up.

Fournier also quotes the history of a man who died in the same city in 1807 at the age of sixty-seven.