Catalogue description A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman with remarks on corpulence. Read before...

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Details of MS. 3863
Reference: MS. 3863
Description:

A relation of the case of Thomas Hardy Kirman with remarks on corpulence. Read before the Royal Society, Feb. 27, 1833. Author's holograph MS.

 

London.

 

The subject of this paper was the son of a miller of Barton-upon-Humber (Lincs.), who was born in 1821 and at the age of 11½ weighed over 14 stones.
Date: 1833
Held by: Wellcome Collection, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 7 ff.
Physical condition: 4to. 24 x 19 cm. Unbound. Printed in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society III', 1833, pp. 176/177.
Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1905. (67433A)
Administrative / biographical background:

From the Pettigrew Collection.

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