nd later on
the back and on the front of the chest. The temperature was normal.
The second case was a married Englishwoman of sixty-four. The enlarged
tissue was very unevenly distributed, and sensibility was the same as
in the previous case. At the woman's death she weighed 300 pounds, and
the fat over the abdomen was three inches thick. The third case was a
German woman in whom were seen soft, fat-like masses in various
situations over either biceps, over the outer and posterior aspect of
either arm, and two large masses over the belly; there was excessive
prominence of the mons veneris. At the autopsy the heart weighed 8 1/2
ounces, and the fat below the umbilicus was seven inches thick.

Abnormal Leanness.--In contrast to the fat men are the so-called
"living skeletons," or men who have attained notice by reason of
absence of the normal adipose tissue. The semimythical poet Philotus
was so thin that it was said that he fastened lead on his shoes to
prevent his being blown away,--a condition the opposite of that of
Dionysius of Heraclea, who, after choking to death from his fat, could
hardly be moved to his grave.

In March, 1754, there died in Glamorganshire of mere old age and
gradual decay a little Welshman, Hopkin Hopkins, aged seventeen years.
He had been recently exhibited in London as a natural curiosity; he had
never weighed over 17 pounds, and for the last three years of his life
never more than 12 pounds. His parents still had six children left, all
of whom were normal and healthy except a girl of twelve, who only
weighed 18 pounds and bore marks of old age.

There was a "living skeleton" brought to England in 1825 by the name of
Claude Seurat. He was born in 1798 and was in his twenty-seventh year.
He usually ate in the course of a day a penny roll and drank a small
quantity of wine. His skeleton was plainly visible, over which the skin
was stretched tightly. The distance from the chest to the spine was
less than 3 inches, and internally this distance was less. The
pulsations of the heart were plainly visible. He was in good health and
slept well. His voice was very weak and shrill. The circumference of
this man's biceps was only 4 inches. The artist Cruikshank has made
several drawings of Seurat.

Calvin Edson was another living skeleton. In 1813 he was in the army at
the battle of Plattsburg, and had lain down in the cold and become
benumbed. At this time he weighed 125 pounds and was twenty-five yea