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Sir Francis Burdett holds up a bonnet rouge shaped like a fool's cap as he and Samuel Whitbread encourages those who are making a bonfire of statutes on the cobbles of Palace Yard; Westminster Hall is stoned and demolished by the mob beyond. Etching by J. Gillray.

Minutes of cases of cancer and cancerous tendency, successfully treated by Samuel Young ... / with a prefatory letter, addressed to the governors of the Middlesex Hospital, by Samuel Whitbread.

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Samuel Whitbread

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Minutes of cases of cancer and cancerous tendency, successfully treated by Samuel Young ... / with a prefatory letter, addressed to the governors of the Middlesex Hospital, by Samuel Whitbread.