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Concept

Hand Deformities, Congenital

Images

  • [Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].
  • [Leaflet advertising Captain Montgomery's Family "Just arrived in England" from St. John's, Newfoundland, whose 3 children were all born with"hands and feet in the shape or form of a crab." They were exhibited in the New Cut, Lambeth 10 November 1883, by manager, James Paine].
  • [Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].
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Catalogue

    • Books
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    De la brachydactylie et de l'hyperphalangie chez l'homme / par H. Leboucq.

    Leboucq, Hector Louis François, 1848- | Date: [1896]
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    The traumatic deformities and disabilities of the upper extremity / by Arthur Steindler.

    Steindler, Arthur, 1878-1959. | Date: 1946
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].

    | Date: 1898
    • Books

    Die chirurgischen Krankheiten der oberen Extremitäten / von Paul Vogt.

    Vogt, Paul, 1844-1885. | Date: 1881
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    Congenital anomalies of the hand and their surgical treatment / Arthur J. Barsky.

    Barsky, Arthur Joseph, 1899- | Date: [1958], ©1958
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