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  • Anne-Marie Hérig, a girl with a skin abnormality; the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below, an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge after J. de Sève.
  • Three figures with abnormalities, One figure has a human body with a ducks head, the second figure has a Lions body with a human head and the third has a human body with webbed feet and hands
  • Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
  • Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
  • Multiple breasted woman
  • Freak Philpeno child.
  • A Siamese Twin
  • A diagram of a Siamese twin with conjoined spine
  • Mitochondrial inclusions in muscle biopsy
  • [Article from the Revue internationale de clinique et de thérapeutique (pages 487-8 - no date) entitled: Curiosités médico-chirurgicales : un cyclope humain - a single eyed infant, also lacking a nose].
  • [Article from the Revue internationale de clinique et de thérapeutique (pages 487-8 - no date) entitled: Curiosités médico-chirurgicales : un cyclope humain - a single eyed infant, also lacking a nose].
  • Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.
  • Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.
  • Two diagrams of conjoined twins, a foetus with a deformed head and face and an interior of a chest with two hearts. Line engraving.
  • Stony covering of the skin.
  • New species of man ... : now exhibiting at Mr. Laxton's Rooms, no.23, New Bond Street : this young man is 30 years of age, covered with scales, with the exception of the face, soles of the feet, and palms of the hand, which are like those of any other man.
  • An extraordinary freak of nature, or, a man encrusted with a barnacle or stone-like skin.
  • Observationes anatomici. Historia monstri bicorporis duobus capitibus, tribus pedibus, pectore pelvique concreti : curae renovatae de anastomosi tubulorum lactiferorum mammae muliebris, concrementa terrestria, venae capitis et colli cum figuris ad vivum expressis / Joannis Gottlieb Walteri.
  • Show Bill. Attractions at the Middlesex Music Hall 'Mogul Tavern' 167, Drury Lane on Monday 6 December 1886 includes 'Pat O'Brien, the great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowed German giants.
  • Signor Saltarino.
  • Hermaphrodite from De Hermaphroditorum, 1614
  • Show Bill, 'Beware of your children' 'The Superhuman Boy'. Demonstrated at the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch by a man called Professor Anderson, a boy of seven able to cause a grown man to fall flat.
  • Down syndrome young men.
  • Down syndrome child, 19th century.
  • Show Bill, Barnum and Bailey's show
  • Elephant Man.
  • Show Bill, Uffner's mammoth giant & mite
  • Down syndrome child, aged 3 months.
  • The wedding of American midgets
  • Girl with Elephantiasis from De Hermaphroditorum, 1614