Condition present at birth regardless of cause; human disease or disorder developed prior to birth

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[Handbill advertising The Edmonton twins: conjoined twins on exhibition at the Adelaide Gallery in the Lowther Arcade, London. The twins were born on 30 January 1855].

The celebrated Mrs. Weston, six inches shorter than any woman travelling ... : also the Liliputian Dwarf, thirty years of age, and only thrity-two inches high ...

[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 The Rotunda, Blackfriars Road, London].

S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...

The Royal American Midgets at the Piccadilly Hall : afternoon 2 till 5, evening 7 till 9.

[Newspaper cutting, "Giants" (1842?) about the possibility of an ancient race of giants].

[Leaflet advertising the "midgets' return to London":  General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, adjoining the Royal Aquarium, London (1882?). It has a cartoon of General Mite being arrested by two policemen].

[Cutting from The London Journal (1853?) titled: 'The earthmen in Southern Africa'. ].

Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.

Gruss von Hede.

Royal Court Midgets.

Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, as old men. Aquatint.

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

Minnie Warren's quadrille (sister of Mrs. Tom Thumb) / by Stephen Glover. Performed daily at Commodore Nutt's grand levée.

The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.

Deformities caused by thalidomide.

Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

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Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

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

Minnie Warren's quadrille (sister of Mrs. Tom Thumb) / by Stephen Glover. Performed daily at Commodore Nutt's grand levée.

The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.

Deformities caused by thalidomide.

Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Images from the collections

Images referencing Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Works from the collections

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

Minnie Warren's quadrille (sister of Mrs. Tom Thumb) / by Stephen Glover. Performed daily at Commodore Nutt's grand levée.

The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.

Deformities caused by thalidomide.

Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

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