A condition observed in WOMEN and CHILDREN when there is excess coarse body hair of an adult male distribution pattern, such as facial and chest areas. It is the result of elevated ANDROGENS from the OVARIES, the ADRENAL GLANDS, or exogenous sources. The concept does not include HYPERTRICHOSIS, which is an androgen-independent excessive hair growth.
    

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Gruss von Hede.

[Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].

Madame Delait en promenade avec son chien.

Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.

[Handbill advertising appearances by Madame Polonawsky, the Living Russian Bearded Lady (Albert Palace, 15 February 1886)].

[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].

Hypertrichosis lanuginosa (various types)

Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages / by E.A. Cockayne.

The hair and scalp : a clinical study (with a chapter on hirsuties) / by Agnes Savill.

[Leaflet advertising bearded lady, Mlle. Melaque from Constantinople, appearing at the Champ de Foire (Paris)].

Hirsutism

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[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].

Hypertrichosis lanuginosa (various types)

Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages / by E.A. Cockayne.

The hair and scalp : a clinical study (with a chapter on hirsuties) / by Agnes Savill.

[Leaflet advertising bearded lady, Mlle. Melaque from Constantinople, appearing at the Champ de Foire (Paris)].