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  • A sovereign remedy.
  • [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].
  • Royal Institution of Great Britain, Albemarle-street, August 30, 1841 : the extended and practical course of chemical lectures and demonstrations for medical and general students, delivered in the laboratory of this institution by professor Brande and E. Solly, jun., esq., will commence on Tuesday, the 5th of October at nine in the morning... / Joseph Fincher.
  • [Newspaper clipping (from the Illustrated Times, 3 October 1868) about 'Dr. Nelaton and the Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng].
  • A soverign remedy.
  • 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.
  • [Newspaper clipping (1874?) featuring an illustration of 'The Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng and the report of their death with an obituary].
  • 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.
  • Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne : the original and only genuine.
  • Millie Christine : the two headed nightingale ...
  • 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.
  • The gentlemen, farmers, jockies, stage-coachmen and carriers universal medicine in the true cordial horse balls and preparation of antimony, adapted for the use and benefit of all, as well the race as cart horse : the cordial balls ... / Samuel Gibson.
  • Allen & Hanburys' Infants Food.
  • [Newspaper clipping advertising a performance by Marian, the Amazon giantess at the Alhambra Theatre in London in 1882].
  • [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.