What we Used to Wear
M S R
Genre: | Essay |
Subjects: | Chemistry, Lecturing |
Recalls a story of 'a lady who, having adorned her person and painted her face, attended a fashionable lecture on chemistry', during which the lecturer's experiments caused the lady's face to change to the 'blue, yellow, and many coloured hues of a loathsome reptile'. (15) | |
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