A man in Highland dress seated on a latrine with his legs thrust down the holes in the board and his hands placed before him; his urine trickles over the edge of the toilet. Engraving, 1745.
Wellcome Collection

A man in Highland dress seated on a latrine with his legs thrust down the holes in the board and his hands placed before him; his urine trickles over the edge of the toilet. Engraving, 1745.

1745

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Sawney in the boghouse: The London sawney come, who, from his birth, then, down each venthole, thrust his branny thighs; had dropt his folio gates on mother earth; and squeezing cry'd _ Sawney's a Laird. I tron. shewn to a boghouse, gaz'd with wondering eye <lettering indistinct> neer did he naably disembaage 'till non

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