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Obesity

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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.
  • 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"].
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Catalogue

    • Videos

    The world's biggest boy.

    | Date: 2007
  • view Obesity: the indications for reduction cures / translated from the German by A.C. Croftan.
    • Books
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    Obesity: the indications for reduction cures / translated from the German by A.C. Croftan.

    Noorden, Carl von, 1858-1944. | Date: 1903
    • Videos

    Why are thin people not fat?.

    | Date: 2010
    • Ephemera

    Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

    • Books

    Getting the most out of food : the ninth in a series on the modern approach to feeding and nutrition.

    | Date: 1974
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