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Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon?.
Wellcome Collection

Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon?.

John Nixon · 1799

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Lettering continues with forty-four verses of letterpress. Some lettering printed within the platemark. The sweating sickness; or, the imaginary malady. (A bona fide fact.) ...

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