Janus head or two-faced man

Mouse mutant for the nodal & HNF3beta genes

MONSTROSITY: Winged Monster. Ulisse Aldrovandi,

Handbill advertising The Lancashire prodigy. Two trunks and sets of limbs, but one head. Bears date in pencil: August 1838.

A young man with body deformed through sciatica

The 'Claxton' earcap, designed to correct 'outstanding' ears.

MONSTROSITY: Cyclop. Ulisse Aldrovandi, Opera omnia Bononiae : apud

Un feto - a handwritten case study of an teratological case

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.

Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.

MONSTROSITY:Elephant Man

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

A congenital malformation of th uterus

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

Genetics in obstetrics and gynecology / Joe Leigh Simpson [and others].

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Congenital Abnormalities

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

Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.

A congenital malformation of th uterus

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

Genetics in obstetrics and gynecology / Joe Leigh Simpson [and others].

Congenital Abnormalities

Images from the collections

Images about Congenital Abnormalities

Works from the collections

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

Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.

A congenital malformation of th uterus

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

Genetics in obstetrics and gynecology / Joe Leigh Simpson [and others].

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