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The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.

Romanticism, medicine, and the poet's body / James Robert Allard.

Bare of laurel : the poet's body and the Romantic poet-physician.

A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech.

A letter to Henry Cline, Esq on imperfect developments (sic) of the faculties mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic aon on the treatment of impediments of speech.

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A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech.

A letter to Henry Cline, Esq on imperfect developments (sic) of the faculties mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic aon on the treatment of impediments of speech.