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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An inchoate trunk with small attached limbs protrudes from the child's back: an example of "parasitic terata, monsters that consist of one perfect body, complete in every respect, but from the neighbourhood of whose umbilicus depends some important portion of a second body" (Gould & Pyle p. 172)
Publication/Creation
Tigaon, Cam. [Camarines] Sur [Philippines] : Martinez Studio, Agosto 24, 1927 [24 August 1927]
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1 photograph ; image 13.3 x 8.4 cm
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El niño de 10 años, cresió un fenómeno al costado esquierdo Sagnay Camarines Sur.
References note
G.M. Gould and W.L. Pyle, Anomalies and curiosities of medicine, Philadelphia 1896
Reference
Wellcome Collection 46786i
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