Medical condition in which excess body fat harms health

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Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.

M0010308: Portrait of Paul Butterbrodt, a man weighing 476 pounds

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 ...

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.

Glandiposan / Gedeon Richter (América), S.A.

Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Line engraving.

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"].

The world's biggest boy.

Schooled on fat : what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity / Nicole Taylor.

Obesity: the indications for reduction cures / translated from the German by A.C. Croftan.

Top tips for top kids : change 4 life : eat well, move more, live longer / produced by COI for the Department of Health.

AppleSlim : so simple, so slim with AppleSlim / Bional.

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Obesity

Images about Obesity

Works

The world's biggest boy.

Schooled on fat : what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity / Nicole Taylor.

Obesity: the indications for reduction cures / translated from the German by A.C. Croftan.

Top tips for top kids : change 4 life : eat well, move more, live longer / produced by COI for the Department of Health.

AppleSlim : so simple, so slim with AppleSlim / Bional.

Obesity

Images about Obesity

Works

The world's biggest boy.

Schooled on fat : what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity / Nicole Taylor.

Obesity: the indications for reduction cures / translated from the German by A.C. Croftan.

Top tips for top kids : change 4 life : eat well, move more, live longer / produced by COI for the Department of Health.

AppleSlim : so simple, so slim with AppleSlim / Bional.

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