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Cardiac and circulatory subjects (4th series)
Date: 1916-1944Reference: PP/FPW/B.55/4
Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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[Small leaflet advertising appearances by Roberts's Greatest Phenomenon of the Age (late of the Crystal Palace), a "young lady born without arms", at The Horn of Plenty, Whitecross Street [London?]].
Date: [between 1860 and 1880?]
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[Newspaper cutting about an appearance by a giant in London on 12 May 1716: "A chronicle of curious events"].
Date: 1889
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251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
Date: [1830?]
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A short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.
Date: 1805
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Limb development and deformity : problems of evaluation and rehabilitation / by fifty-three contributors, edited by Chester A. Swinyard, M.D. Ph.D.
Date: 1969
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Unthan, "the armless wonder" at theSouth London Palace, 15 April (1889?). Printed on pink paper].
Date: [1889?]
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A true relation of a monstrons [sic] female-child : with two heads, four eyes, four ears, two noses, two mouths and four arms, four legs, and all things else proportionably, fixed to one body. Born about the 19th of May last, ar [sic] a village called Ill-Brewers near Taunton Dean in somerset=shire. Likewise a true and perfect account of its form so prodigiously strange, with several remarkable passages observed from it since its birth, so great and amazing, that the like has not been known in many ages: with many other circumstances. As it was faithfully communicated in a letter, by a person of worth, living in Tauntou-Dean [sic], to a gentleman here in London, and attested by many hundreds of no mean rank; and well koown [sic] to several gentlemen in and about London.
Date: [1685?]
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[Leaflet advertising the exhibition of The Petrified Man from Tucapel, Chile, in the Trance Room of the Royal Aquarium, London].
Date: [between 1880 and 1899?]
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A True relation of a monstrous female-child, with two heads, four eyes, four ears, two noses, two mouths, and four arms, four legs, and all things else proportionably, fixed to one body : born about the 19 of May last, at a village called Ill-Brewers near Taunton Dean in Somerset-shire : likewise a true and perfect account of its form so prodigiously strange ... / as it was faithfully communicated in a letter, by a person of worth, living in Taunton-Dean, to a gentleman here in London.
Date: [1680?]
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Natures wonder? Or, [An ac]count how the wife of one John Waterman an ostler ... was delivered of a strage monster upon the 26th of October 1664 : ... It had two heads, foure armes, and two legs ... She had another child born before it ...which is yet living, and is a very comely child in all proportions. This is attested for truth, by several persons which were eye witnesses. The tune is, London prentice: Or, Jovial batchelor.
Date: [1664]
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Deformität als Metapher : ihre Bedeutung und Rezeption im England des 18. Jahrhunderts / Ulrike Bolte.
Bolte, Ulrike, 1955-Date: 1993
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper cutting (4 July 1882) advertising the Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, Westminster, London].
Date: [1882]
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Contributions to teratology : undescribed malformation of the lower lip occurring in four members of one family / by J. Jardine Murray.
Murray, John Jardine.Date: 1860
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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 (1896) / by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
George M. GouldDate: 1956
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Shwe-Maong, a man in Burma whose head and face are covered with hair. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after W.E. Reid.
Reid, W. E.Date: [1834]Reference: 31814i
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Articulating the elephant man : Joseph Merrick and his interpreters / Peter W. Graham, Fritz H. Oehlschlaeger.
Graham, Peter W., 1951-Date: [1992]
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Tootsie and the giant.
Date: 1887
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This is to give notice, to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is arriv'd at this place a little wild man, born in St. David's Streights, aged 27 years : he is 34 inches high, streight, very well proportioned ...
Date: [1979]
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Genetic diseases and developmental disabilities : aspects of detection and prevention / edited by Tamah L. Sadick and Siegfried M. Pueschel.
Date: 1979
Ephemera
Online
Pleasing phenomenon : a nyctalopess, from Witham in Essex at Brooke's Menagerie, no. 242, Piccadilly ...
Date: [1815?]
Ephemera
Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.
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Important notice ! : Everybody should see our girls : to be seen only at Elliss's Exhibition which will visit this town during the fair : consisting of the Scottish-Canadian giantess twin sisters ... / Raper, Frank, business manager and agent-in-advance ; Seth Elliss, sole proprietor.
Raper, FrankDate: [1880?]
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Ein Fall von beiderseitigem Colobom der inneren Augenhäute ohne Colobom der Iris : inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde / von Joseph Eichhoff.
Eichhoff, Joseph.Date: 1878
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Important notice : Elliss's exhibition of living wonders, will exhibit here for a short time only : consisting of the Great North American Giantess Twin Sisters ... / Seth Elliss, manager and proprietor.
Elliss, Seth.Date: [1880?]

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Cardiac and circulatory subjects (4th series)

[Small leaflet advertising appearances by Roberts's Greatest Phenomenon of the Age (late of the Crystal Palace), a "young lady born without arms", at The Horn of Plenty, Whitecross Street [London?]].

[Newspaper cutting about an appearance by a giant in London on 12 May 1716: "A chronicle of curious events"].

251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...

A short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.

Limb development and deformity : problems of evaluation and rehabilitation / by fifty-three contributors, edited by Chester A. Swinyard, M.D. Ph.D.

[Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Unthan, "the armless wonder" at theSouth London Palace, 15 April (1889?). Printed on pink paper].

[Leaflet advertising the exhibition of The Petrified Man from Tucapel, Chile, in the Trance Room of the Royal Aquarium, London].

Deformität als Metapher : ihre Bedeutung und Rezeption im England des 18. Jahrhunderts / Ulrike Bolte.

[Newspaper cutting (4 July 1882) advertising the Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, Westminster, London].

Contributions to teratology : undescribed malformation of the lower lip occurring in four members of one family / by J. Jardine Murray.

Shwe-Maong, a man in Burma whose head and face are covered with hair. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after W.E. Reid.

Articulating the elephant man : Joseph Merrick and his interpreters / Peter W. Graham, Fritz H. Oehlschlaeger.

Tootsie and the giant.

This is to give notice, to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is arriv'd at this place a little wild man, born in St. David's Streights, aged 27 years : he is 34 inches high, streight, very well proportioned ...

Genetic diseases and developmental disabilities : aspects of detection and prevention / edited by Tamah L. Sadick and Siegfried M. Pueschel.

Pleasing phenomenon : a nyctalopess, from Witham in Essex at Brooke's Menagerie, no. 242, Piccadilly ...

Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.

Important notice ! : Everybody should see our girls : to be seen only at Elliss's Exhibition which will visit this town during the fair : consisting of the Scottish-Canadian giantess twin sisters ... / Raper, Frank, business manager and agent-in-advance ; Seth Elliss, sole proprietor.

Ein Fall von beiderseitigem Colobom der inneren Augenhäute ohne Colobom der Iris : inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde / von Joseph Eichhoff.

Important notice : Elliss's exhibition of living wonders, will exhibit here for a short time only : consisting of the Great North American Giantess Twin Sisters ... / Seth Elliss, manager and proprietor.