The stomach of a victim of cholera Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Mark Higgins

Mark Higgins

The cartoon relates to the postponement by Kay of the Lord Mayor's show for fear of anti-Wellington riots

with building works in progress

and on her evidence people were arrested

Plate 6 from Supplement to Lord Armstong's work on electric movement in air and water

The stomach of a victim of cholera Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Mark HigginsAnatomical study showing the stomach of a victim of cholera discovered with mushrooms remaining in the stomach, a regular occurrence despite the vomiting induced by cholera due to food blocking the pyloric orifice in the stomach. Plate XIII from Anatomie Pathologique du Cholera Morbus by Nikolay Pirogov (St Petersburg, 1849). Original: lithograph . 1849