‘We remember . . . going to another tenement and entering house by house only to find men and women rolling on the floor of a desolate dwelling in indiscriminate drunkenness . . . the heart-piercing looks and cries of their infant children assailed us with irresistible appeals for bread to allay the cutting pangs of hunger.’

– Rev. William Tasker, Missionary, reports on conditions in the West Port, 1845, Thomas Chalmers archive, New College Library, Edinburgh

 

‘Before the engravings were finished, a third subject occurred very opportunely . . .’

– William Hunter on the procurement of a deceased woman in the 9th month of pregnancy, The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures, 1774