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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.

Die Mischgeschwülste / von M. Wilms.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

Dermatomyositis, polymyositis (1st series). Panniculitis, hypodermic (subcutaneous) sarcoid etc

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

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Die Mischgeschwülste / von M. Wilms.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

Dermatomyositis, polymyositis (1st series). Panniculitis, hypodermic (subcutaneous) sarcoid etc

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

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.