And all is bare, I may again

See the ripe heads that pierce the plain,

And eat once more before I die

Our garden-grown asparagi."

R. C. L.


Massage in the 18th Century.

"Anatomy. Albinus (Bernard Siegfried). Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, translated from the Latin. Folio, half calf (joints cracked, back rubbed). Edinburgh 1777-78."


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