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The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.

Abbildung und Beschreibungen einiger Misgeburten die sich ehemals auf dem anatomischen Theater zu Cassel befanden / Samuel Thomas Sömmerring.

Missgeburt : In dem marggrävischen Gebiet 2 Meil von Nürnberg : anno 1669, Sonntags den 2 Mai, zu Nachts zwischen 11 und 12 Uhr hat Andreas Hurmans, Stadt Rühehirtens zu Schwabach Eheweib, diss Kind zur Welt geboren ... der Name UDUS gegeben worden.

Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To which is added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and spinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended / By Edward Tyson.

De duplicitate monstrosa commentarius / Quem conscripsit Joannes Fridericus Meckel.

The surprising monsters : being the wonderful works of the divine judgement on a wicked proud young woman who for her game and despising of others was made herself an example of, for instead of three children at one birth, she had three of the most horrid objects that ever mortal eye beheld; and such that the oldest person living never before saw the like.

Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux auteurs, grecs & latins, sacrez & prophanes / mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, sournommé Launay, natif de Bretagne. Augmentées outre les précédentes impressions de six histoires advennues de nostre temps adjoustées par F. de Belle-forest comingeois, avec les portraicts & figures.

Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica / Adolph Wilhem Otto.

Monstrous metamorphosis : nature, morality, and the rhetoric of monstrosity in Tudor England / Kathryn M. Brammall.

Recherches d'anatomie transcendante et pathologique : theorie des formations et des deformations organiques,appliquee a l'anatomie de Ritta-Christina, et la duplicite monstreuse.

Mirabilia e monstra nei 'Quodlibeta' de Nicole Oresme / Stefano Caroti.

Historical aspects of foetal abnormalities / by Vishnu Sarma.

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Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid

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Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica / Adolph Wilhem Otto.

Monstrous metamorphosis : nature, morality, and the rhetoric of monstrosity in Tudor England / Kathryn M. Brammall.

Recherches d'anatomie transcendante et pathologique : theorie des formations et des deformations organiques,appliquee a l'anatomie de Ritta-Christina, et la duplicite monstreuse.

Mirabilia e monstra nei 'Quodlibeta' de Nicole Oresme / Stefano Caroti.

Historical aspects of foetal abnormalities / by Vishnu Sarma.

Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid

Images from the collections

Images about Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid

Works from the collections

Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica / Adolph Wilhem Otto.

Monstrous metamorphosis : nature, morality, and the rhetoric of monstrosity in Tudor England / Kathryn M. Brammall.

Recherches d'anatomie transcendante et pathologique : theorie des formations et des deformations organiques,appliquee a l'anatomie de Ritta-Christina, et la duplicite monstreuse.

Mirabilia e monstra nei 'Quodlibeta' de Nicole Oresme / Stefano Caroti.

Historical aspects of foetal abnormalities / by Vishnu Sarma.

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