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Body Height

Images

  • A short dentist (standing on a stool) extracting a tooth from an extremely tall lady who in her agony kicks over his work table. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1821, after A.E.
  • A lady asks a pharmacist about his enlargening potion; he displays the bump on his head as proof of its efficacy. Process print after a wood engraving.
  • A band of militiamen in uniform marching in a disorderly manner, headed by a drummer. Etching by M. Darly, 1777, after E. Topham.

Catalogue

    • Books

    Increase in size of Jamaican school children in recent years / M.T. Ashcroft and P. Desai.

    Ashcroft, M. T. | Date: 1977
    • Pictures

    A man whose height is being measured holds a proposal of marriage that he has received. Etching by R. Brichet, 1783, after J. F. de Göz.

    Goez, Joseph Franz, Freiherr von, 1754-1815. | Date: [1783] | Reference: 2954118i
    • Books

    Über Schillers körperliches Wachstum / Wilhelm Theopold.

    Theopold, Wilhelm. | Date: 1988
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    Heights and weights of schoolchildren in St. Vincent / M.T. Ashcroft and A.C.K. Antrobus.

    Ashcroft, M. T. | Date: 1970
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    Size at birth / [editors Katherine Elliott and Julie Knight].

    Symposium on Size at Birth (1974 : London, England) | Date: 1974
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