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Animals - Abnormalities

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Animals
Teratology
Abnormalities
Morphology (Animals)
Teratogenesis

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Images from the collections

Images about Animals - Abnormalities

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  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "Two children united from the umbilical chord to the top of the breast bone", born January 1833 and being exhibited at 28 High Street, Bloomsbury, London with The Matchless Lamb (1 head, 2 bodies) and the Wonderful Kangaroo Pig (no fore legs)].
  • The wonderful American hen, with three wings and four legs : the greatest living curiosity!!! in the world is now exhibiting at 26, Charing Cross ...
  • A hen with a deformed face, supposedly like a human one: three views. Wood engraving.
  • [Undated leaflet about The Wonderful American Hen with three wings and four legs, to be seen at 26 Charing Cross, London].

Works from the collections

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

    | Date: 1890
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    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.

    Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922. | Date: 1898, ©1896
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    Degeneracy : its causes, signs, and results / by Eugene S. Talbot.

    Talbot Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon), 1847-1924. | Date: 1898
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    The wonderful American hen, with three wings and four legs : the greatest living curiosity!!! in the world is now exhibiting at 26, Charing Cross ...

    | Date: [1842?]
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    Prevention of handicap and the health of women / Margaret Wynn and Arthur Wynn.

    Wynn, Margaret. | Date: [1979]

Related topics

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Plants - Abnormalities
Monsters
Neurofibromatoses

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