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On contagion

Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.

  • Interview

Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

  • Article

It’s getting mighty crowded

Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.

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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones

Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.

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  • Dog with deformed claws. Lithograph.
  • Pubic louse, close-up of claws, SEM
  • A fibroma between hind claws of a sheep
  • A fibroma between hind claws of a sheep
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • Pubic louse, 2nd & 3rd claws, SEM.
  • Birds' claws: eight figures, including the claws of a golden eagle, a barn owl, a woodpecker, a parrot, a pigeon, a lark, a crow, and a cockerel. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • A monstrous four-footed creature with a horse-like head and feline claws. Gouache.
  • Top, two vultures; bottom, a vulture holding a snake in its claws. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1828.
  • [Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].
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