Essays and observations, physical and literary : read before a society in Edinburgh, and published by them.

Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.

Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.

C18 Chinese woodcut: Lurking-cold pharyngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: White laryngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Pale red laryngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Pale red pharyngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Double-sided pharyngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: White tonsillitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: White pharyngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Alcohol-poisoning laryngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Galloping pharyngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Light white throat abscess

C18 Chinese woodcut: One-sided pharyngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: One-sided throat abscess

C18 Chinese woodcut: Deficiency-putrefaction laryngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Abscess on the tongu

C18 Chinese woodcut: Lung-cold laryngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Laryngitis extending to the tongue

C18 Chinese woodcut: Over-exertion laryngitis

C18 Chinese woodcut: Inflammation of the throat

C18 Chinese woodcut: Swollen-putrid throat abscess

C18 Chinese woodcut: Deficiency-type hoarseness

C18 Chinese woodcut: Lurking-cold throat abscess

C18 Chinese woodcut: Stony tonsillitis

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