Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — Human Obesity. [ARTICLE]

Human Obesity.

We recorded recently the death of the “fattest woman in the world,” a member and special curiosity of Nathan’s Cleveland circus in America, who appears to have been smothered in bed. Miss Conley, though the most enormous of her sex, weighing as she did 497 pounds, fell far short of that prodigy of human bulk, the famous Daniel Lambert, who died in 1809, during Stamford fair, at the age of 40. Lambert weighed no less than 52 stone 11 pounds—that is, 739 pounds, or close upon half as much again as. the American lady. Daniel Lambert’s cofln with his body could- not be brought down the stairs of the house in which he died, and the walls at the side of the window had to be brokeir away to provide an exit. He was 5 feet 11 inches in height, measured 9 feet 4 inches around the body, and 3 feet 1 inch around the leg. He never drank any beverage but water, and slept less than eight hours per day. The “Claimant” at hisatoutest weighed only *2O stone, or less than half the weight of Daniel Lambert.-- London Times.