Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — The Obesity Record. [ARTICLE]

The Obesity Record.

| Daniel Lambert, the fanwww fat man and the most noted example of obesity recorded in medical annals, was born in 1770, and died at the ago of 40, of excessive fat. His weight was 739 pounds.