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Overweight children

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  • Everybody should go and see the beautiful child -- the giant boy, a second Daniel Lambert ... : James Paine, of London, aged 9 years, weighs the enormous weight of 19 stone and a half ...
  • Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

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    Childhood obesity in America : biography of an epidemic / Laura Dawes.

    Dawes, Laura, 1976- | Date: 2014
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    Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1885?]) | Reference: 38989i
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    Everybody should go and see the beautiful child -- the giant boy, a second Daniel Lambert ... : James Paine, of London, aged 9 years, weighs the enormous weight of 19 stone and a half ...

    | Date: [1868?]

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