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Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

Date

1890

Minnie Warren's quadrille (sister of Mrs. Tom Thumb) / by Stephen Glover. Performed daily at Commodore Nutt's grand levée.

Date

[approximately 1870]

The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.

Date

2012

Deformities caused by thalidomide.

Date

1964

Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

Date

[1900]

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.

Date

1898, ©1896

Beitrag zur Lehre vom Coloboma bulbi : inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde / von Jodocus Mueller.

Date

1874

Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.

Date

1911

Daniel Lambert was born at Leicester on the 13th March, 1770 ...

Date

[between 1810 and 1850?]

[Undated newspaper cutting (early 19th century?) about Dock, the Wild Indian Venus, a Brazilian of the Butucudos tribe with a lower lip plate and ear tips resting on her shoulders, to be seen "at the Crown Hotel". ].

Date

[between 1800 and 1850?]

Frank Uffner's marvellous midgets : the only midgets, the world's wonders! : Piccadilly Hall, opposite St. James's Church, Piccadilly : commencing Monday, Nov 22nd ...

Date

[1880]

Mind Disease and Therapeutics

Date

1890-1956

Reference

PP/FPW/B.211

Part of

Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)

The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.

Date

[between 1820 and 1860?]

[Leaflet advertising appearances by the 6 month old John Baptist Dos Santos, born with 3 legs, 2 penises and 4 testicles in Portugal 1843 on display at no.56, Quadrant, Regent Street, London].

Date

[between 1843 and 1844?]

Hallux valgus, allied deformities of the forefoot and metatarsalgia / H. Kelikian.

Date

1965

A giant, Mr. Robert Hales, named "The Yorkshire Giant," who will exhibit in Nottingham next week, is nearly eight feet in height, and weighs 462 lb.

Date

[1848]

Peter and Paul : the smallest men on Earth : John Lester's Midgets, Midget Town, the Tower, Blackpool.

Date

[between 1920 and 1929?]

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!.

Date

[between 1816 and 1818?]

The borderland of embryology and pathology / by R.A. Willis.

Date

1962

Clinical remarks on deformities / by Alfred Willett.

Date

1870

Congenital absence of permanent second molars / T. Anderson, J. Andrews.

Date

1996

Suffer the children : the story of thalidomide / the Insight team of the Sunday times.

Date

1979

Grand extra night! : Wednesday, December 8th, 1875 ... / Gatti's Palace of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road.

Date

1875

El crecimiento y sus trastornos / G. Marañón.

Date

1953

The living skeleton : drawn from nature / by Robert Crukshank.

Date

1825