Title from item., Published in: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Boston: Frederick Gleason, 19 March 1853., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Families & family life.
Publisher:
Frederick Gleason
Subject (Name):
Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874. and Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874.
Subject (Topic):
Conjoined twins, Abnormalities, Human, Human curiosities, Families, Spouses, and Children
Caption title., Publication information from a similar broadside with identical text but different edition with different border and imprint below border: Printed and sold by James Waston, Tenterdon. Imprint trimmed from this edition?, Includes a woodcut illustration at head of text depicting the conjoined twins, with text "Elisa and Mary Chulkhurst" above and "Biddenden" below; ornamental border., Acquired with an example of a Biddenden Maids biscuit, boxed and shelved separately in Object Room C:A., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
James Weston?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Biddenden (England)
Subject (Topic):
Conjoined twins, Curiosities and wonders, Charities, and History
Title from item., In image: Ætatis Suæ 17., Date derived from a broadside with a similar image identifying the twins as Lazarus and John Baptista Colloredo, born in Genoa in 1620. The brothers were on tour in London in 1637, when they would have been 17 years old., Place of publication derived from language of text., Syndrome is identified as Thoracopagus parasiticus., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Thoracopagus.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Abnormalities, Human, Conjoined twins, and Anomalies
Giacomo Poro (born 1686 in Genoa, was known as James Poro. He had an underdeveloped conjoined twin attached to his abdomen, known as a parasitic, asymmetrical or unequal conjoined twin. Poro exhibited himself in London during 1714
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
In an oval, a half-length portrait of James Poro (born Giacomo Poro), shown with his shirt open to reveal his conjoined twin growing out of his stomach, named Matthew or Matteo. They were born in Genoa, Italy. The second small body could function almost normally. If you hurt him, he would cry, and he could move a little bit. Both James and Matteo were baptized
Description:
Title etched on base in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., One line of text following subtitle: (see Gent. Mag. vol. XLVII, p. 424)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: Poro, James and Matthew, 1686-1714.
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Above image: Actualités. 3., Published in Le Charivari., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, French.
Publisher:
A. de Vresse, r. Rivoli, 55 and Lith. Walter Fres. r. Paradis Pre. 28.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Glais-Bizoin, Alexandre, 1800-1877
Subject (Topic):
Interruption (Rhetoric)., Conjoined twins, Politicians, and Politics and government
BEIN BrSides Box 2012 23: Verso text: "Millie Christine! 8th wonder of the world! The famous two-headed lady. Remember, that the opportunity of seeing this, the most marvelous wonder on Earth, is afforded you but once in a life-time...", BEIN BrSides Box 2017 49: Verso text: "Engagement extraordinary, for the season of 1883, at the enormous salary of $25,000, with Millie Christine, the renowned two-headed lady. A human miracle, who has astonished and interested the lights of science, men of eminence, and the medical faculty of this and the Old World...", BEIN In Process 1: Verso text: "Millie Christine! 8th wonder of the world! The famous two-headed lady. Remember, that the opportunity of seeing this, the most marvelous wonder on Earth, is afforded you but once in a life-time...", BEIN In Process 2: Verso text: "A human miracle. Millie Christine, the marvelous two-headed lady. This most astonishing and pleasing of all wonders posesses the extraordinary appendages of two fine heads...", Broadside advertisement for conjoined African-American twins, Millie-Christine., and "To be seen only in John B. Doris' Great Inter-Ocean, largest and best show on Earth"--Verso.
