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Wonderful museum : an extraordinary child born in France in 1683. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Wonderful museum : an extraordinary child born in France in 1683.
- Date:
- [1805?]
- Ephemera
- Online
About this work
Description
A plate and two pages from a book describing the birth and showing an engraving of a baby (whose twin had died after birth) born in Bresse, France with "an extraordinary skin... that entirely covered him to the extremities of his hands and feet, his face excepted". Presumably a caul, or amniotic sac, it is described in detail.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1805?]
Physical description
1 unnumbered leaf of plates, pages 1,507-8 : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPH499CLocation Access Closed storesEPH499C:4Note