A man on a stage at a fair eating fire, watched by a crowd. Colour process print.

Mr. Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

Mr Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

A donkey carries wood while people shelter and eat near a fire; representing winter. Etching, 17--, after F.G. Bassano the younger.

A woman cooks in a flat pan on the fire as a man and a boy wait at the table for something to eat. Engraving.

Two fire eaters in southern India: a man and a woman. Gouache painting.

Josephine Giraldelli, a woman impervious to fire. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1823.

Josephine Giraldelli, a woman impervious to fire. Reproduction of an engraving.

Robert Powell, a fire-eater. Engraving, 1813.

Xavier Chabert, a fire eater. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1829, after A. Wivell.

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Surviving a flesh-eating disease

My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted

Lonely bodies are hungry for more than turkey

The solidarity of sickness

A fire-eater kindling fire in his lungs with the remedy Thermogène. Colour lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, 1909.

The whole art of legerdemain: or hocus pocus in perfection. ... To which are added, several tricks of cups and balls, &c. as performed by the little man without hands or feet. The wonderful art of fire eating.

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Surviving a flesh-eating disease

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Lonely bodies are hungry for more than turkey

The solidarity of sickness

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A man on a stage at a fair eating fire, watched by a crowd. Colour process print.

Mr. Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

Mr Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

A fire-eater kindling fire in his lungs with the remedy Thermogène. Colour lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, 1909.

The whole art of legerdemain: or hocus pocus in perfection. ... To which are added, several tricks of cups and balls, &c. as performed by the little man without hands or feet. The wonderful art of fire eating.

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Stories

Surviving a flesh-eating disease

My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted

Lonely bodies are hungry for more than turkey

The solidarity of sickness

Images

Catalogue

A man on a stage at a fair eating fire, watched by a crowd. Colour process print.

Mr. Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

Mr Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

A fire-eater kindling fire in his lungs with the remedy Thermogène. Colour lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, 1909.

The whole art of legerdemain: or hocus pocus in perfection. ... To which are added, several tricks of cups and balls, &c. as performed by the little man without hands or feet. The wonderful art of fire eating.