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Motorised invalid car, The Pultney Two Seater'.

A neighbour checking on an old sick man and enquiring about what the doctor has said, the old man retorts that he has recommended exercise. Wood engraving by G. King, 1907.

Engraving of invalid carriage made by H. and J. Reading.

Invalid spinal carriage made by McKenzie and Sons.

The Rotary invalid tricycle.

The register of folly; or, characters and incidents at Bath and the hot-wells, in a series of poetical epistles, by an invalid

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The register of folly; or, characters and incidents at Bath and the hot-wells, in a series of poetical epistles, by an invalid