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In 1889 an impresario undertook to exhibit her; but eight men could not move her from her room, and as she could not pass through the door the idea was abandoned. There was a colored woman who died near Baltimore who weighed 850 pounds, exceeding the great Daniel Lambert by 120 pounds.
The journal reporting this case quotes the Medical Record as saying that there was a man in North Carolina, who was born in 1798, who was 7 feet 8 inches tall and weighed over 1000 pounds, probably the largest man that ever lived.
Hutchison says that he Saw in the Infirmary at Kensington, under Porter's care, a remarkable example of obesity.
The woman was only just able to walk about and presented a close resemblance to Daniel Lambert. Obesity forced her to leave her occupation.
The accumulation of fat on the abdomen, back, and thighs was enormous. According to a recent number of La Liberte, a young woman of Pennsylvania, although only sixteen years old, weighs 450 pounds.
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