"Do you Bant?" Diet and Deafness in Victorian England - a podcast by Sky Michael Johnston

“William Banting was a British funeral director who, at age 66, was obese, weighing 202 pounds at 5'5", and needed a truss to hold an umbilical rupture in place. His weight was so troublesome that he could not tie his shoes and had to walk down the...

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