'Inflammation of the dura mater' mb-artist Edmund_Thornton_Crawford Comedian and actor Peter Cook

Comedian and actor Peter Cook smoking a cigarette

Sid Vicious

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

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

21st January 1966

'Inflammation of the dura mater' mb-artist Edmund_Thornton_Crawford Comedian and actor Peter CookInternal 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