REMARKABLE CASE. OF ENORMOUS


OBESITY
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The following is an abstract the h4aory Of
a case Of enormous obesity, which affords some
curious and interesting physiological facts, and
may se've TO warn folks Of the danger ofexces-
sive eat;ng;-


Krocker (of Rcrlin)-for that was the fellows
name, did not, like Bright, Ahrens, Clay, and
other truly great personages, signaze himself
much in his youth, but was content to eat and
drink the same quantity of food as his neigh.
hors. About the age of thirty he began to give
way to a disposition to devour immense masses
of meat, and the more he ate, the more his APP
petite increased until his time was consumed in
little else than eating and sleeping. His occu-
patton was that of butcher, and animal food
was his favorite repas, contrary to the usual hab
its Of such people. -Krocker, however, would
devour from eight to ten pounds of triPe at a
meal, or from six to seven pounds of beef and
sausages. He continued in this way to stuff
himself. gradually becoming fatter, until it re-
quired siIeen pounds of beef daily, to satisfy his
hunger! For bet he has frequently dcvoured
the boiled flesh of az, entire csLfin day, season
ed only with SALT in the presence of many per.
sons; and on one occasion he declared himself
ready to attack second, but could get no body
to bet against him. He could not trust himself
in the sausage mandatory, as he would eat the
minced meat by the pound, spreading it over
bread with as little ceremony as the people
spread treacle. By way of breakfast, or supper,
he would clean from two to three dozen of the
pettitoes of pigs; and it appears, at last, to have
puzzled his friend TO know how to supply him.
His usual drink was beer, of which he daily
drank from two to th<as quarts In this way he