William Wilson, or Mortar Willie, aged 107. From 1778 to 1815, he ground drugs for almost every apothecary in Edinburgh. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.

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