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Abnormalities and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases ... / classified, annotated and indexed by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1898- Ephemera
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The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
Date: [between 1820 and 1860?]- Books
P.T. Barnum : the legend and the man / A.H. Saxon.
Saxon, A. H.Date: [1989], ©1989- Ephemera
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The English Tom Thumb : great natural curiosity.
Date: [1846]- Books
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Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1897- Ephemera
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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.
Date: [1841]- Books
Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed (1896) / by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1956- Books
Performance and the medical body / edited by Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard.
Date: 2016- Pictures
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A child of ten years with a parasitic attachment on its back, Sagñay, Camarines Sur, the Philippines. Photograph by Martinez Studio, 1927.
Martinez Studio.Date: Agosto 24, 1927 [24 August 1927]Reference: 46786i- Books
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The most strange and wounderfull apperation of blood in a poole at Garraton in Leicester-shire : which continued for the space of foure dayes, the rednesse of the colour for the space of those foure dayes every day increasing higher and higher, to the infinet amazement of many hundreds of beholders of all degrees and conditions, who have dipped their handketchers in this bloody poole, ... As also the true relation of a miraculous and prodigious birth in Shoo-lane, where one Mistris Browne a cuttlers wife was delivered of a monster without a head or feet, and in stead of a head had a hollow out of which a child did proceed, which was little but lovely, perfect in all but very spare and leane. As also the Kings sending to his Parliament for hostage for the security of his person to come unto London and to sit with his parliament for the composing the diffirences in the kingdome.
Date: [1645]- Books
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The history of man: displaying the various powers, faculties, capacities, virtues, vices, and defects of the human mind: As Exhibited In the Conduct, Sentiments, great Undertakings, Improvements, and Attainments, as well in the Arts Civil as Military, of the most Extra-Ordinary Genius's, in the different Ages and Nations of the World. Digested under proper heads. The whole interspers'd with moral reflections. And Calculated to increase Knowledge, to promote Virtue, to discourage Vice, and to furnish Topics for innocent and ingenious Conversation. Precepts may lead us, but Examples draw. In two volumes. ...
Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
Curiosity is the key to discovery : the story of how Nobel laureates entered the world of science.
Date: [1992]- Books
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Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1898, ©1896- Ephemera
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S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
Date: [1885]- Ephemera
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S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
Date: [1885]- Pictures
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In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38359i- Pictures
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In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: April 1st 1745Reference: 38353iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Books
Exploring the cultural history of continental European freak shows and 'enfreakment' / edited by Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau.
Date: 2012- Pictures
In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Engraving by William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [1768]Reference: 38141iPart of: Hudibras- Books
The body collected : the raw materials of medical science from cadaver to DNA.
Date: 2016- Books
Stranger than fiction : essays / by Mike Jay.
Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14-Date: 2018- Books
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The wonders of the little world: or, a general history of man. In six books. Displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind, In several Thousand most interesting Relations of Persons remarkable for Bodily Perfections or Defects: Such as, Strength and Beauty, Stature and Agility, &c. Or for Weakness and Deformity, Dwarfishness or Unweildiness, &c. Or for extraordinary Virtues of Vices of the Mind: Such as, Piety and Benevolence, Patriotism and Domestic Affection, Generosity and Frugality, Friendship and Hosritality, Wisdom and Prudence, Chastity and Patience, Fortitude and Valour, Moderation and Temperance, Learning, Industry and Ingenuity, &c. Or, Profaneness and Persecution, Tyranny and Brutality, Avarice and Prodigality, Ingratitude and Treachery, Folly and Presumption, Adultery, Rage and Revenge, Cowardice and Pusillanimity, Gluttony and Drunkenness, Ignorance, Sloth and Stupidity, &c. Or for the uncommon Powers or Weakness of the Senses and Affections: As, the Memory, Sight, Feeling, Taste, Smelling, &c. And of Love and Hatred, Fear and Anger, Joy and Grief, Desire and Hope, Scorn and Envy, &c. Together with accounts of the invention of arts, the advancement of science; Surprising Escapes from Death and Dangers; Strange Discoveries of long-concealed Murders, And a vast Variety of other Matters equally curious. The Whole collected from the Writings of the most approved Historians, Philosophers and Physicians, of all Ages and Countries. Forming a complete System of the Mental and Corporeal Powers and Defects of Human Nature; And intended to increase Knowledge, to promote Virtue, to discourage Vice, and to furnish Topics for Innocent and Ingenious Conversation. By Nathaniel Wanley, late M. A. And Vicar of Trinity Parish, Coventry.
Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Ephemera
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's latest collection of living curiosities at the Piccadilly Hall, London, featuring General Tiny Mite and Chang, the great Chinese giant (24 February 1883?). ].
Date: [1883]- Books
The Morbid Anatomy anthology / edited by Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey.
Date: [2014]- Ephemera
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In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...
Date: [Between 1840 and 1880?]