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Stafford, in all this churchyard." Wadd has gathered some instances, a few of which will be cited. Jacob Powell died in 1764, weighing 660 pounds. It took 16 men to carry him to his grave. Mr. Baker of Worcester, supposed to be larger than Bright, was interred in a coffin that was larger than an ordinary hearse. Mr.
This same author has also collected cases of abstinence lasting eleven, twenty-two, and thirty years and cites Aristotle as an authority in substantiating his instances of fasting girls. Wadd, the celebrated authority on corpulence, quotes Pennant in mentioning a woman in Rosshire who lived one and three-quarters years without meat or drink.
+697+. Whatever be the explanation of the process, we find in fact a large number of cases in which such abstractions appear as deities and receive worship. +698+. Semitic. The material for the Semitic religions on this point is scanty. Whether these are all abstract terms is doubtful. Wadd means also 'lover, divine friend or patron.
Wadd, a physician, himself an enormous man, wrote a treatise on obesity and used his own portrait for a frontispiece. He speaks of Doctor Beddoes, who was so uncomfortably fat that a lady of Clifton called him a "walking feather bed." He mentions Doctor Stafford, who was so enormous that this epitaph was ascribed to him: "Take heed, O good traveler! and do not tread hard, For here lies Dr.
One, formerly much used, is that over which we had travelled from the coast, and which, on leaving Beïla, leads due north to Quetta viâ Wadd and Sohrab. An ordinary caravan by this route occupies at least forty days in transit.
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