Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-code 42-63234176 Plate 12 from the Croonian

Plate 12 from the Croonian Lecture paper 'On the anatomical structure of the eye

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The chairman is John Elliott

2nd February 1978

Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-code 42-63234176 Plate 12 from the Croonian'Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body? Sacrificed to modern taste, I'm quite a hoddy doddy!'', 1795. A satire on the unflattering fashions of the day. A hoddy doddy meant all arse and no body; a short clumsy person. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).