An extraordinary freak of nature, or, a man encrusted with a barnacle or stone-like skin.

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[1834]
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An extraordinary freak of nature, or, a man encrusted with a barnacle or stone-like skin. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Newspaper cutting (1834?) telling of Mr. Kitching's (a surgeon of Aldersgate Street) description of a patient of his "nearly encrusted with a stone like skin, very closely resembling the barnacles of the native oyster" (ichthyosis?).

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[1834]

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1 sheet ; 5 x 7 cm

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