'Inflammation of the dura mater' mb-artist Edmund_Thornton_Crawford Napoleon III had long had

Napoleon III had long had his French fingers in a variety of different European pies

This cartoon was prompted by the publication of Andrew Mearns' The Bitter Cry of Outcast London

21st January 1966

The summer weather of 1888 was obviously no more reliable than it is now

'Inflammation of the dura mater' mb-artist Edmund_Thornton_Crawford Napoleon III had long hadInternal surface of a portion of the human dura mater, one of the meninges (membranes of the central nervous system) covering the right hemisphere of the brain, showing inflammation. Plate 1 from the monograph The morbid anatomy of the human brain; being illustrations of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject, by Robert Hooper (London, Longman, Rees, 1826). Inscribed: 'PLATE I. J. Howship, delt. J. Wedgewood