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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Missgeburt : In dem marggrävischen Gebiet 2 Meil von Nürnberg : anno 1669, Sonntags den 2 Mai, zu Nachts zwischen 11 und 12 Uhr hat Andreas Hurmans, Stadt Rühehirtens zu Schwabach Eheweib, diss Kind zur Welt geboren ... der Name UDUS gegeben worden.
  • Sporadic Cretinism
  • A child of ten years with a parasitic attachment on its back, Sagñay, Camarines Sur, the Philippines. Photograph by Martinez Studio, 1927.
  • A malformed foetus. Wood engraving.
  • A girl suffering from a skin disease, identified as multiple fibroma: side and posterior view. Engraving, 1805.
  • Sporadic Cretinism
  • A boy with a supernumerary arm, fighting off six assailants. Wood engraving.
  • A standing woman, full-length side view, with enlargement of the buttocks (steatopygia). Photograph.
  • An egg with a human head covered with snakes.
  • At the Globe and Duke of Marlborough's Head in Fleet Street, is to be seen a bold Grimace Spaniard...
  • Two goats born with one head and two bodies.
  • A girl born without an arm. Reproduction, 1905, of a photograph by G. Kelly.
  • Monster from De Hermaphroditorum, 1614
  • Two goats born with one head and two bodies.
  • A hard case : there is now exhibiting in South Castle-street a female, a native of Holland, whose body, with the exception of the face and bust, is encrusted with a hard substance, which grows upon and completely covers the skin. This lady is 37 years of age ... Liverpool Albion.
  • A hard case : there is now exhibiting in South Castle-street a female, a native of Holland, whose body, with the exception of the face and bust, is encrusted with a hard substance, which grows upon and completely covers the skin. This lady is 37 years of age ... Liverpool Albion.
  • The mystery and lore of monsters : with accounts of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies / by C.J.S. Thompson.
  • Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
  • Breast cancer cell
  • Abbildung und Beschreibungen einiger Misgeburten die sich ehemals auf dem anatomischen Theater zu Cassel befanden / Samuel Thomas Sömmerring.
  • Malformed foetuses and skeletons with part of the brain missing. Lithograph by Meunier, 1826.
  • Photo of young woman with aprtial atypical Achondroplasia
  • Broadside of the Biddenden Maids, Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst.
  • A child with stumps for its limbs, being exhibited. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • Chang and Eng 1811-1874.
  • De duplicitate monstrosa commentarius / Quem conscripsit Joannes Fridericus Meckel.
  • Breast cancer cell
  • Foetus in a young man