o02 THE FAT. 



had begun to grow fat at the end of the third month. She was 

 also of Herculean general development, and, like many dwarfs, 

 had a flat nose. At an early age I believe females are more 

 commonly the subjects of the affection than males. 



A Frenchman named Seurat, who was shown in London a few 

 years ago, with the soubriquet of the " Living Skeleton," was pro- 

 bably as extreme an instance of emaciation as can be imagined. 

 An American, named Calvin Edson, shown more lately, was also 

 extraordinarily emaciated, and weighed but 58 Ibs. They had no 

 other apparent disease. The Frenchman was about 30 years old, 

 and had wasted from infancy : the American about 4O, and had 

 wasted for sixteen years. A French penny roll and a little vin du 

 pays was the Frenchman's daily food in France ; and in England a 

 iittle meat, amounting, with a reduced portion of bread, to three 

 ounces per diem. 



The fatty substance of various animals has various properties, and affords 

 various principles. Vegetables contain fatty substances volatile as well as fixed. 



Starch is hoarded in plants in small cells, into which the sap penetrates and then 

 dissolves it, so that it becomes nourishment to the plant, under particular cirrum- 

 f.tances, just as fat does to animals. This is the purpose of the stock of ft-cula 

 in tuberose roots. 



