Her thighs and haunches were in proportion to her general contour.

At forty she ceased to menstruate and soon became afflicted with organic heart diseases.
Fournier quotes an instance of a woman in Paris who at twenty-four, the time of her death, weighed 486 pounds.

Not being able to mount any conveyance or carriage in the city, she walked from place to place, finding difficulty not in progression, but in keeping her equilibrium.
Roger Byrne, who lived in Rosenalis, Queen's County, Ireland, died of excessive fatness at the age of fifty-four, weighing 52 stone.

Percy and Laurent speak of a young German of twenty who weighed 450 pounds.
At birth he weighed 13 pounds, at six months 42, and at four years 150 pounds.

He was 5 feet 5 inches tall and the same in circumference.
William Campbell, the landlord of the Duke of Wellington in Newcastle-on-Tyne, was 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 728 pounds.