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Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.

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.

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.

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

Why are thin people not fat?.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Getting the most out of food : the ninth in a series on the modern approach to feeding and nutrition.

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The world's biggest boy.

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

Why are thin people not fat?.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Getting the most out of food : the ninth in a series on the modern approach to feeding and nutrition.