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  • Hyperkeratosis of the heel. Hyperkeratosis describes a thickening of the outer layer of the skin caused by abnormally increased amounts of the protein keratin which normally functions to protect the skin.
  • 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
  • Short-title catalogue : of works on psychical research, spiritualism, magic, psychology, legerdemain and other methods of deception, charlatanism, witchcraft, and technical works for the scientific investigation of alleged abnormal phenomena, from circa 1450 A.D. to 1929 A.D / Compiled by Harry Price.
  • On the influence of abnormal parturition, difficult labours, premature birth, and asphyxia neonatorum, on the mental and physical condition of the child, especially in relation to deformities / by W.J. Little ..., Senior Physician to the London Hospital; founder of the Royal Orthopædic Hospital ... ; communicated by Dr. Tyler Smith.
  • Multiple breasted woman
  • Freak Philpeno child.
  • A Siamese Twin
  • A diagram of a Siamese twin with conjoined spine
  • [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
  • A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to shew under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise; with thirty-one cases that have been ... treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose ... As well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / By T. Sheldrake.