"childhood" pseudo-article

[Barbara Zurer Pearson]

Dear Infochildes,

As long as Patrick Griffiths has you rummaging
around mentally, let me ask about an article I
saw about 10 or 15 years ago.  I showed it to my
then teenage daughter, who registered it, but now
as a new mother would like to see it again--and
I can't find it.

It was a tongue-in-cheek description of childhood
as a medical condition--explaining the small stature,
disorganized movements etc.  (It's NOT the piece in
the Onion, which is in the same vein, but cruder.  The
Onion is the tabloid version; this is the one that
tries to be from "Nature" (or so I remember it.)

I don't think it was new way back when.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Barbara Pearson

> Patrick Griffiths wrote:
>
> In the last year or so, I read something about a long-term
> record on the development of a King of France (?Louis
> XVI?) kept by his personal physician. I can't remember
> where I read this and would very much appreciate pointers
> from someone who recognises what I am fumbling for.
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick Griffiths
>
> Beppu University

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