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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Giants" (1842?) about the possibility of an ancient race of giants].
  • L'orthopédie, ou, l'art de prevenir et de corriger dans les enfans, les difformités du corps / [Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard].
  • [Cutting from the Morning Post for 14 November 1935 about a death due to a "Boy's brain too big for his skull. Larger than a man's"].
  • L'orthopédie, ou, l'art de prevenir et de corriger dans les enfans, les difformités du corps / [Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard].
  • Just arrived at this place, and to be exhibited in a large and commodious caravan, during the fair : that wonderful American youth, Mr. Leach ... the shortest person in the world!.
  • By permission of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor : to the nobility, gentry, and the curious for inspecting most extraordinary human beings, of the wild species born ... three wonderful phoenomena ... each with a monstrous CRAW under the throat ...
  • Mrs. Cadman : of Medworth, Nottinghamshire; died 1802; weighing 27 stone.
  • Just arrived at this place, and to be exhibited in a large and commodious caravan, during the fair : that wonderful American youth, Mr. Leach ... the shortest person in the world!.
  • [Leaflet (1880s?) advertising appearances of "The male child without head, face or arms" at King John's Court, Shoreditch].
  • Johannes Valerius, a man born without hands or arms. Engraving, 1819.
  • L'orthopédie, ou, l'art de prevenir et de corriger dans les enfans, les difformités du corps / [Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard].
  • L'orthopédie, ou, l'art de prevenir et de corriger dans les enfans, les difformités du corps / [Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard].
  • Three figures of foetuses with hermaphroditic genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • [Cutting from The Lancet of 7 January 1928 proposing surgery in cases of conjoined twins, James Poro and Laloo are shown].
  • Miss Hawtin, born without arms. Etching.
  • Giacomo Poro, a man with a deformed figure protruding from his chest. Line engraving.
  • L'orthopédie, ou, l'art de prevenir et de corriger dans les enfans, les difformités du corps / [Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard].
  • Francisca, the Mexican dwarf.
  • In Paris they shew an infant Hercules, who is immensely fat.
  • Iòao Baptista dos Santos, a diphallic boy with supernumerary legs. Lithograph by W. Kohler.
  • The celebrated Mrs. Weston, six inches shorter than any woman travelling ... : also the Liliputian Dwarf, thirty years of age, and only thrity-two inches high ...
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "Two children united from the umbilical chord to the top of the breast bone", born January 1833 and being exhibited at The Rotunda, Blackfriars Road, London].
  • [Cutting from The London Journal (1853?) titled: 'The earthmen in Southern Africa'. ].
  • Died, on Sunday last, Mrs. Cox, of 38, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, of dropsy : she is supposed to have been the heaviiest woman in London, weighing, at the time of her death, not less than 18 stone ... 13 June, 1830.
  • Thomas Inglefield, an artist born without limbs. Etching by S. Ireland, 1787, after F. Grose.