THE THINNEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1443, 29 December 1886, Page 3

THE THINNEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED.

Instances of remarkably thin men sire not uncommon but Claude Ambroise Senrat,lwho|was in England in 1825, was so extraordinary personage that during the time he was exhibited at the “ Chinese Saloon” in Pall Mall, no fewer than 70,000 persona visited him ia a few weeks. Seurat was born in 1797, and wa<, therefore, eight-and--w ioty years of ago when he made his appoirauce in England.' Sir Astley Cooper, the farnus physician, was among tha throng who poured into the building in win h *ourat receive those who were anxious to so.) him. and in writing of him raid : “ Seurat is, without dubt mott mys'cr.cus being 1 hive encountered. His face is that of ao orditiay mr.n, somewhat emaciated, perhaps, but n d remarkably so. liis ey«a are bright and his vo co pleating. Seen in the ordinary costume <>f the day he in no way dlffVs from the average fpraigmrj Eat stripped of his padded clothing be i pre en, sau astounding spectstic. His arms are mere boors covered by psroh-raam-like skin, and muscle or fl;fh lo appears to have none. He is, therefore, scarcely able to move h'a arms and leg*, and walks, though without apparent eff u t with ex'rema dilfi'.uhy Ua measuring Him and »eih ug him, I found that h s cleat raeasu omen' -as 3n, wh ch is fair; toil', nis hei ht. wsa t. 0 ; but that h<s w Ight was not more than Jot ty-five pounds. the bones being much larger than those of an ordinary man ol his stature, who might weigh one hundred and fify pom ds In appearance, Indeed, ho so ranch resembles a skeleton that a short-sighted person might easdy mistake him for one.” Seurat's food consisted of two or three ounces i f b'B id and meat daily, and he sometimes • o<k a little wine. He was remarkably intelligent and well read, and piciod up English rapidly. On arriving at places where he was known, he was ac ustcmod to walk out in his p.vid-.d clothes, and d d not attract paitisular a teotioitl He said that unti> tht age of te year e res mhl d any o dtuary boy, but ihit e suddenly was ed away. lie died in 1849 aged fifty t« o years.