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  • Ars longa vita brevis.
  • Ars longa vita brevis.
  • William Ball, a man weighing forty stone. Colour lithograph.
  • William Ball, a man weighing forty stone. Wood engraving.
  • Thomas Hills Everett, an enormous infant. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Theresia Fischer, a girl weighing 151lb. Coloured engraving, 1815.
  • 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 ...
  • William Ball, a man weighing forty stone. Colour lithograph.
  • [Illustrated leaflet (1874?) advertising appearances by Master Smith, The Yorkshire Giant Youth].
  • Mr. Campbell, an overweight giant. Reproduction of a wood engraving.
  • Mrs. Cadman : of Medworth, Nottinghamshire; died 1802; weighing 27 stone.
  • Arthur Sidney Matthews aged one, weighing forty pounds. Reproduction of a watercolour.
  • [Newspaper cutting about a 40 stone man, William Ball, known as John Bull who worked for the Colebrook-dale company of ironmasters. ].
  • Hercules, a very large child. Aquatint by T. Cartwright, 1815, after E. Pugh.
  • [Newspaper cutting about a 40 stone man, William Ball, known as John Bull who worked for the Colebrook-dale company of ironmasters. ].
  • In Paris they shew an infant Hercules, who is immensely fat.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Tune into a healthy diet : nutrition/dietary advice / Medicentre.
  • Tune into a healthy diet : nutrition/dietary advice / Medicentre.
  • Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines & drugs & simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's cool feather-weight electric body belt ... / Dr. Carter Moffat.
  • Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines & drugs & simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's cool feather-weight electric body belt ... / Dr. Carter Moffat.
  • Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Line engraving.
  • 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.
  • "Colosso" : age: 19 years, weight: 44 st., height: 6ft, 2 1/2 ins.