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  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • 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.
  • The culture of the abdomen : the cure of obesity and constipation / by F.A. Hornibrook.
  • Important notice ! : Everybody should see our girls : to be seen only at Elliss's Exhibition which will visit this town during the fair : consisting of the Scottish-Canadian giantess twin sisters ... / Raper, Frank, business manager and agent-in-advance ; Seth Elliss, sole proprietor.
  • 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.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Sensation of the day : will visit this town two great and startling novelties : Mr. W. Campbell the celebrated young Scottish giant ... weighs the enormous weight of 48 stone 9 lb ... he is accompanied by that great and beautiful sight Miss M. E. Bland the anglo-saxon wonder! A sight all ladies ought to see. Fourteen years of age ... and weighs the astounding weight of 18 stone 3 lb.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • An obese gouty man with his feet in buckets. Coloured aquatint.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Mezzotint.
  • Separate portraits of Daniel Lambert and Edward Bright, 50 stone and 44 stone respectively. Engraving, 1806.
  • A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Naylor's Dog Show consisting of prize dogs of various breeds... : novelty extraordinary giant rat... : Mr. Samson, the wonderful Living Skeleton Man who is greatly contrasted with the extraordinary American Fat Child.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Daniel Lambert was born at Leicester on the 13th March, 1770 ...
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An obese gouty man exclaiming angrily. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1806, after G. Sauley.
  • Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Engraving, 1809.
  • Jacob Powell, who died weighing almost 40 stone. Line engraving by A. Walker.
  • Teresina, a young woman weighing 265 kg. Halftone after a photograph.
  • A corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained and bedbound. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1833.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.