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  • Died, on Sunday last, Mrs. Cox, of 38, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, of dropsy : she is supposed to have been the heaviiest woman in London, weighing, at the time of her death, not less than 18 stone ... 13 June, 1830.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches and a disease of the lung) all inter-related (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • An evil demon (dMu) who causes dropsy. Watercolour by a Tibetan painter.
  • Christ heals a man with dropsy while the Pharisees and lawyers criticise him for healing on a Sunday; Pharisees feast in the background; children play with a donkey on the right. Engraving by E. Rouargue.