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Pediatric Obesity

Images

  • Mrs. Everitt, and her son.
  • Mrs. Everitt, and her son.
  • Ann Groves : of Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire.
  • Wonderful phenomena of nature : a female child, (a twin,) 11 years of age, 4 feet 2 inches in height, and weighs one hundred pounds ...
  • Wonderful phenomena of nature : a female child, (a twin,) 11 years of age, 4 feet 2 inches in height, and weighs one hundred pounds ...
  • Just arrived, and may be seen in the commodious rooms, 287, Strand : W.W. Westhead, the Manchester Gigantic Boy! Who was born on the 26th September, 1810 ...
  • A child of the name of Wybrants was exhibited in London, in 1806, who at four months old, was saiod to weigh 39 pounds ...
  • In Paris they shew an infant Hercules, who is immensely fat.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Childhood obesity in America : biography of an epidemic / Laura Dawes.

    Dawes, Laura, 1976- | Date: 2014
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    A child of the name of Wybrants was exhibited in London, in 1806, who at four months old, was saiod to weigh 39 pounds ...

    | Date: [between 1820 and 1850?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    In Paris they shew an infant Hercules, who is immensely fat.

    | Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]
    • Books

    Giving obese pregnant women metformin had no effect on baby's weight at birth / National Institute for Health Research.

    National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) | Date: [2016?]
    • Ephemera

    Just arrived, and may be seen in the commodious rooms, 287, Strand : W.W. Westhead, the Manchester Gigantic Boy! Who was born on the 26th September, 1810 ...

    | Date: [1823]
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