Posts tagged birth defects

Humanis Epigramma in Schuueickeri Dexteritatem Conscriptum

Humans: Making the most of the hand they’re dealt!

The text notes that this man (Sueuicis Thomam Schweickerum) was born with small hands attached(?) to his shoulders, but he writes with his feet. These illustrations were made when he was 31 years of age. It also mentions his calligraphy being exceptional and that he “continues the dying monastic art of illumination” despite hot having arms.

Fortunius Licetus de Monstris. Gerardi Blasii, 1615.

Skeleton of anencephalic fetus with complicated spina bifada Cranial deformation is due to failure of skull to form bony material. Kerckringii proposes that this was an effect of the spina bifada. Specilegium Anatomicum nec non Anthropogeniae Ichnographiam. Theodori Kerckringii, 1717.

Skeleton of anencephalic fetus with complicated spina bifada

Cranial deformation is due to failure of skull to form bony material. Kerckringii proposes that this was an effect of the spina bifada.

Specilegium Anatomicum nec non Anthropogeniae Ichnographiam. Theodori Kerckringii, 1717.

kl0vis: Portrait of an infant-monster from Johannes Scultetus’ L’arcenal de chirurgie.

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Portrait of an infant-monster from Johannes Scultetus’ L’arcenal de chirurgie.

fuckyeahmedicalstuff: Parasitic twin. From the Anomalies and Curiosities book I’ve posted a few times…

fuckyeahmedicalstuff:

Parasitic twin.

From the Anomalies and Curiosities book I’ve posted a few times…

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Isodore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Histoire Générale et Particuliere des Anomalies de l’Organisatoin Chez l’Homme, et les Animaux mummy.

Isodore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Histoire Générale et Particuliere des Anomalies de l’Organisatoin Chez l’Homme, et les Animaux mummy.