Dr.Short mentions a lady who died of corpulency in her twenty-fifth year weighing over 50 stone (700 pounds).

Catesby speaks of a man who weighed 500 pounds, and Coe mentions another who weighed 584 pounds.
Fabricius and Godart speak of obesity so excessive as to cause death.
There is a case reported from the French of a person who weighed 800 pounds.

Smetius speaks of George Fredericus, an office-holder in Brandenburgh, who weighed 427 pounds.
Dupuytren gives the history of Marie Francoise-Clay, who attained such celebrity for her obesity.

She was born in poverty, reached puberty at thirteen, and married at twenty-five, at which age she was already the stoutest woman of her neighborhood notwithstanding her infirmity.

She followed her husband, who was an old-clothes dealer, afoot from town to town.