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  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Enthusiastic reception of Barnum's great and renowned Boston Prize Ladies who have been specially engaged to complete a tour of Great Britain at an enormous outlay : Miss Minnie & Rhoda Holland.
  • Glandiposan / Gedeon Richter (América), S.A.
  • Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Line engraving.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • [Leaflet advertising an appearance by James Paine, the Infant Hercules at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly with the British Tom Thumb, "the smallest man in the world"].
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • News : inexpensive sustained dexamphetamine therapy 'for the patient who is tired all day', 'for day-long appetite control' : dexten ion-resin-bonded dexamphetamine, barbidex dexten plus phenobarbitone / Clinical Products Ltd.
  • Died, on Sunday last, Mrs. Cox, of 38, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, of dropsy : she is supposed to have been the heaviiest woman in London, weighing, at the time of her death, not less than 18 stone ... 13 June, 1830.
  • Feel healthier : change one thing : tips for healthy eating and money off coupons to help you on your way / Boots.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • An obese man talking to a tall lean woman. Pen drawing, 1796.
  • Mr. J. Wharton : when only 13 years of age, he weighed eighteen stone, and continued to increase in weight a stone each year, till he was thirty years old ... he died November, 1810, at Appleby Carside, Lincoln, at the age of 34.
  • Claude-Ambroise Seurat, Daniel Lambert, Jeffery Hudson and an unidentified giant, surrounded by eight vignettes of other characters. Stipple engraving.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Jacob Powell, weighing nearly forty stone. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Heath.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Sudden death of Mrs. Armitage.
  • Boniface consulting a doctor about the fullness of his stomach. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby, 1827.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing over fifty stone, aged 36. Coloured etching.