His parents still had six children left, all of whom were normal and healthy except a girl of twelve, who only weighed 18 pounds and bore marks of old age.
There was a "living skeleton" brought to England in 1825 by the name of Claude Seurat.

He was born in 1798 and was in his twenty-seventh year.
He usually ate in the course of a day a penny roll and drank a small quantity of wine.

His skeleton was plainly visible, over which the skin was stretched tightly.

The distance from the chest to the spine was less than 3 inches, and internally this distance was less.

The pulsations of the heart were plainly visible.