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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
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A man with a very large, sloping forehead. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.
Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1792.Date: 1776Reference: 34694i
Part of: Fisonomie possibili
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[Leaflet (1863?) advertising a variety bill at the Criterion Hall of Amusement, Leicester Square, London with 7 foot tall Polish Giantess, Countess Lodoiska headline act].
Date: [1863?]
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A boy with an exaggerated snub nose. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.
Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1792.Date: 1776Reference: 34688i
Part of: Fisonomie possibili
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Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l'organisation chez l'homme et les animaux, ouvrage comprenant des recherches sur les caractères, la classification ... les lois et les causes de monstruosités, des variétés et vices de conformation, ou traité de tératologie / Par M. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861.Date: 1837
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[Small handbill advertising Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, and Harvey's Midges (smallest people in the world), appearing at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1885
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Affections congénitales : I. Tete et cou : maladies des bourgeons de l'embryon, des arcs branchiaux et de leurs fents / par le Professeur Lannelongue et V. Ménard.
Lannelongue, Odilon Marc, 1840-1911.Date: 1891
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Chang, the Chinese giant : Brustad, the giant of Norway. Che-Mah, the Chinese Tom Thumb. Madaree, the real hindoo jadooger. And the midget prince 'Adonis' / Royal Aquarium, Westminster.
Date: [approximately 1880?]
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A child with a tail: side and posterior view. Reproduction of a photograph.
Date: 1912Reference: 2785i
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A man in a large hood with an overhanging forehead and a protruding chin. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.
Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1792.Date: 1776Reference: 34702i
Part of: Fisonomie possibili
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Another Daniel Lambert! : now exhibiting at 6, Leicester Square, Mr. Mansfield, of Debden, Essex, the most wonderful man ever known ... weighing 469lbs.! Circumference, 97 inches!!!.
Date: [between 1810 and 1850?]
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Sarah Biffin, a limbless painter. Engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1821, after Sarah Biffin.
Biffin, Sarah, 1784-1850.Date: June 1821Reference: 164i
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A skeleton of a child born with two backbones and two heads. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911.Date: 1908Reference: 17138i
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Hank, world's tallest bartender, 7 ft 8 inches : Terry, world's shortest bartender, 4ft 11 inches : see us at Bradley's 5 and 10, longest bar in the world : Fillmore Street, between Geary & Post, San Francisco.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.
Date: [1810?]
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London, 22 November 1880. Printed on white paper].
Date: 1880
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Ciba Foundation Symposium on Congenital Malformations / editors for the Ciba Foundation G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor.
Symposium on Congenital Malformations (1960 : London, England)Date: [1960]
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[Illustrated leaflet advertising appearances by "De Tweelingen van Siam", Chang and Eng, in Amsterdam, June 1836. May 1837].
Date: [1836?]
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[1934 cigarette card (no.25 in a series of 50 : Believe it or not) featuring Tom Thumb, who had kissed 1,500,00 women in 3 years. From Carreras high class cigarettes (Arcadia Works, London)].
Date: [1934]
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General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.
Date: [1865?]
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No. 22, New Bond Street : Now exhibiting from ten in the morning till nine at night, an immense French giant : measures exactly 7 feet 4 inches ...
Date: [1826?]
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Die angeborenen Kysten-Hygrome und die ihnen verwandten Geschwülste, in anatomischer, diagnostischer und therapeutischer Beziehung : Denkschrift zur Feier des 50 jährigen Doctor-Jubiläums des Wilhelm Nebel / von Adolph Wernher.
Wernher, Adolph.Date: 1843
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Prematurity, congential malformation and birth injury / Proceedings of a conference sponsored by Association for the Aid of Crippled Children at the New York Academy of Medicine, June 5 and 6, 1952.
Association for the Aid of Crippled Children. Scientific Conference (1952 : New York, N.Y.)Date: 1953
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Congenital malformations and birth injuries : a handbook on nursing / by Jessie Stevenson West.
West, Jessie Stevenson, 1891-1976.Date: 1954
Archives and manuscripts
Vanished and vanishing diseases and changes in the clinical aspects of disease
Date: 1920-1935Reference: PP/FPW/B.356
Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)

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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.

A man with a very large, sloping forehead. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.

[Leaflet (1863?) advertising a variety bill at the Criterion Hall of Amusement, Leicester Square, London with 7 foot tall Polish Giantess, Countess Lodoiska headline act].

A boy with an exaggerated snub nose. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.

[Small handbill advertising Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, and Harvey's Midges (smallest people in the world), appearing at the Piccadilly Hall, London].

Affections congénitales : I. Tete et cou : maladies des bourgeons de l'embryon, des arcs branchiaux et de leurs fents / par le Professeur Lannelongue et V. Ménard.

Chang, the Chinese giant : Brustad, the giant of Norway. Che-Mah, the Chinese Tom Thumb. Madaree, the real hindoo jadooger. And the midget prince 'Adonis' / Royal Aquarium, Westminster.

A child with a tail: side and posterior view. Reproduction of a photograph.

A man in a large hood with an overhanging forehead and a protruding chin. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.

Another Daniel Lambert! : now exhibiting at 6, Leicester Square, Mr. Mansfield, of Debden, Essex, the most wonderful man ever known ... weighing 469lbs.! Circumference, 97 inches!!!.

Sarah Biffin, a limbless painter. Engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1821, after Sarah Biffin.

A skeleton of a child born with two backbones and two heads. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

Hank, world's tallest bartender, 7 ft 8 inches : Terry, world's shortest bartender, 4ft 11 inches : see us at Bradley's 5 and 10, longest bar in the world : Fillmore Street, between Geary & Post, San Francisco.

[Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London, 22 November 1880. Printed on white paper].

Ciba Foundation Symposium on Congenital Malformations / editors for the Ciba Foundation G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor.

[Illustrated leaflet advertising appearances by "De Tweelingen van Siam", Chang and Eng, in Amsterdam, June 1836. May 1837].

[1934 cigarette card (no.25 in a series of 50 : Believe it or not) featuring Tom Thumb, who had kissed 1,500,00 women in 3 years. From Carreras high class cigarettes (Arcadia Works, London)].

General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.

No. 22, New Bond Street : Now exhibiting from ten in the morning till nine at night, an immense French giant : measures exactly 7 feet 4 inches ...

Die angeborenen Kysten-Hygrome und die ihnen verwandten Geschwülste, in anatomischer, diagnostischer und therapeutischer Beziehung : Denkschrift zur Feier des 50 jährigen Doctor-Jubiläums des Wilhelm Nebel / von Adolph Wernher.

Prematurity, congential malformation and birth injury / Proceedings of a conference sponsored by Association for the Aid of Crippled Children at the New York Academy of Medicine, June 5 and 6, 1952.

Congenital malformations and birth injuries : a handbook on nursing / by Jessie Stevenson West.

Vanished and vanishing diseases and changes in the clinical aspects of disease