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  • "Antipon" : permanently cures obesity.
  • "Antipon" : permanently cures obesity.
  • "Antipon" : permanently cures obesity.
  • Obesity and bow legs (genu varum) in a six year old boy, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Young man with marked obesity associated with undeveloped testes
  • In the management of endogenous obesity : Thrit (Cole) (formerly Thyropit).
  • Hormotone : for amenhorrhea - scanty menstruation associated with obesity and low metabolic rate.
  • The culture of the abdomen : the cure of obesity and constipation / by F.A. Hornibrook.
  • Figuroids : the scientific obesity cure : safely remove all superfluous fat from every part of the body, and quite restore the figure / The Figuroid Company Ltd.
  • For use in a salt free diet : Ruthmol, the chloride-free table salt : indications: cardiac disease with decompensation, renal affections, hypertension, slow healing wounds, tuberculosis, gout, obesity, allergic phenomena, eczema (idiopathic) / The Antigen Laboratories.
  • For use in a salt free diet : Ruthmol, the chloride-free table salt : indications: cardiac disease with decompensation, renal affections, hypertension, slow healing wounds, tuberculosis, gout, obesity, allergic phenomena, eczema (idiopathic) / The Antigen Laboratories.
  • For use in a salt free diet : Ruthmol, the chloride-free table salt : indications: cardiac disease with decompensation, renal affections, hypertension, slow healing wounds, tuberculosis, gout, obesity, allergic phenomena, eczema (idiopathic) / The Antigen Laboratories.
  • For use in a salt free diet : Ruthmol, the chloride-free table salt : indications: cardiac disease with decompensation, renal affections, hypertension, slow healing wounds, tuberculosis, gout, obesity, allergic phenomena, eczema (idiopathic) / The Antigen Laboratories.
  • For use in a salt free diet : Ruthmol, the chloride-free table salt : indications: cardiac disease with decompensation, renal affections, hypertension, slow healing wounds, tuberculosis, gout, obesity, allergic phenomena, eczema (idiopathic) / The Antigen Laboratories.
  • For use in a salt free diet : Ruthmol, the chloride-free table salt : indications: cardiac disease with decompensation, renal affections, hypertension, slow healing wounds, tuberculosis, gout, obesity, allergic phenomena, eczema (idiopathic) / The Antigen Laboratories.
  • Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt. Onagraceae. Ozark Sundrops, Bigfruit Evening Primrose. Formerly O. missouriensis. Distribution: South central USA. O. macrocarpa does not appear to have been used medicinally, but other species are so used. Austin (2004) records that O. biennis (Evening Primrose) was used by Native Americans as a potherb in West Virginia. Leaves as salad, roots boiled like potato also infusion to treat obesity and relieve piles (Cherokee)
  • An obese budgerigar.
  • Wall relief of an obese male
  • An obese man consulting a doctor. Coloured etching.
  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Photos of obese man with Infantilism and thyroid disorder
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • An obese gouty man with his feet in buckets. Coloured aquatint.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • An obese man talking to a tall lean woman. Pen drawing, 1796.
  • An obese woman getting up off the ground: three series. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.