Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by JE, 1865.
A shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by JE, 1865.
Wellcome Collection

A shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by JE, 1865.

J. E. · 1865

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Remarkable effect - the maid having by mistake polished one of the dining-room chairs with cod-liver oil!

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