Anatomical Anomalies

Isabella Alston

• Publisher: Taj Books International
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781844063789
• Subtopic: Human Anatomy & Physiology
• Index: Biological Sciences

The human body is an immensely complex and amazing system, but sometimes something goes haywire and causes one or more of its vital elements to misfire, resulting in bizarre and often devastating anatomical anomalies. Such physical abnormalities in times past often meant that the affected individuals would be stigmatized and shunned from the rest of society, primarily out of fear of the unknown. Thankfully, modern science and modern medicine working together have been able to solve many of these physical problems so that the currently afflicted can lead relatively normal lives. The general public has also grown more knowledgeable about the physical disfigurements that plague the human race and has thus become much more accepting of the pain and hardship faced on a daily basis by those so challenged. Extreme physical deformities are not viewed in the same light today as they were 100, or even 50, years ago. The very real people who once would have been the spectacles flaunted at freak shows are today shown understanding. Regardless of the modern times we enjoy, rare cases of physical abnormalities still persist that are so extreme little can be done to ameliorate the deformity.

Table of contents

• Coverpage
• Titlepage
• Copyright
• INTRODUCTION
• FREAK SHOW
• ELEPHANT MAN
• HYPERTRICHOSIS
• ELEPHANTIASIS
• DIPYGUS
• ANNA SWAN BATES
• GENERAL TOM THUMB AND COMMODORE NUTT
• THE SEVEN SUTHERLAND SISTERS
• MADEMOISELLE GABRIELLE, THE HALF WOMAN
• “MONSTROSITIES”
• SPECIMEN: CONJOINED TWINS
• CONJOINED TWINS
• LALOO
• CUTANEOUS HORN
• GOITER
• LOURDOSIS
• MULTPLE ENCHONDROMA
• OSSIFIED ROY
• MAN WITH A TAIL
• SIRENOMELIA
• PHOCOMELIA
• FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT
• VICTIMS OF THALIDOMIDE
• POLYDACTYLY
• LONGEST FINGERNAILS (FEMALE)
• LONGEST FINGERNAILS (MALE)
• INDEX