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  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Rooke's Oriental Pills and Solar Elixir.
  • Biocitin.
  • Biocitin.
  • Dr. Rooke's Oriental Pills and Solar Elixir.
  • The future of medicine / by Sir James Mackenzie.
  • The future of medicine / by Sir James Mackenzie.
  • The future of medicine / by Sir James Mackenzie.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Giants" (1842?) about the possibility of an ancient race of giants].
  • [Cutting from The London Journal (1853?) titled: 'The earthmen in Southern Africa'. ].
  • Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.
  • [Cutting from the Britsh medical journal: "A lecture on the psychology of conjoined twins: a study of monsterhood". Daisy and Violet Hilton are shown].
  • Secrets of good health. XII, The white man's burden : effectual exercises / by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B.
  • CICFA : cures indigestion constipation flatulence acidity.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1887?) "An Irish giant in court" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • Les chirurgiens de l'armée française en Kabylie.
  • Stony covering of the skin.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • Iberol tablets : control of hypochromic anaemia in just 3 tablets a day.
  • [Newspaper cutting advertising the Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, Westminster, London].
  • Twins share one vision : 'incredible' sisters stun experts by seeing through each other's eyes.
  • The giants wedding.
  • J. Worrenburg, the Swiss Dwarf : Little Sarah. Died, at Madron, on Monday, Miss Sarah Roberts, aged 90 years.
  • Big win for little old me : Hatice Kocaman gets one over the school bullies with Guinness World Record.
  • Account of George Romondo.
  • Ten golden rules of health : No.2 explained : ...the importance of wholemeal bread, fruits, and vegetables in a perfect dietary / by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart.
  • [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"].
  • Sudden death of Mrs. Armitage.
  • Spanish soldiers returning from the fighting line : the above picture shows wounded Spanish soldiers being conveyed to the hospital during the fighting now taking place at Melilla between the Spanish troops and the Moorish tribesmen.