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This 6 year old child suffers from Hamamy syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.
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Deformity caused by the chernobyl disaster.
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This is Billy Lodgeson, a man now famous for duping the country with him and his brothers’ fake circus acts. In this case, they would switch around the fake twin and claim it was a woman (who of course who had her face covered out of “shame”) called Margurete Clarke.This picture remains one of the most famous photos of a gaffed parasitic twin. Although it looks obviously fake today, the act tricked hundreds of people in the mid nineteenth century.  
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Congenital syphilis, pre penicillin. 
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Known as the ‘thalidomide catastrophe’, the newly invented thalidomide drug wrecked havoc throughout the 1950’s. Prescribed to many women as a cure for morning sickness, the drug’s effects on the fetus had never been studied. Although thalidomide was never officially licensed in the United States, many doctors received thousands of samples as part of a clinical trial. One third of women on this drug during their first trimester from the United States gave birth to babies with limb deformities as seen above. The catastrophe prompted the strict regulation of drugs given to pregnant women. On August 31st, 2012, the head of the company who created the drug officially apologized and acknowledged responsibility for the deformities. It is estimated that at the time of his apology (generally considered to be “too little, too late” by victim advocacy groups) around 5,000 persons affected by the drug were still alive. 
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Elephantiasis of the leg of a young man, date unknown. 
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Typical cleft hand. Note the deep V-shaped cleft and the adjacent clinodactyly. Clinodactyly is a term used to describe a bend or curvature of the fifth fingers.
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This engraving from 1525 demonstrates the act of trepanation. Still practiced in modern medicine, trepanning refers to drilling or creating a hole in order to relieve pressure. In pre-modern Europe, trepanning referred to drilling a whole into the patient’s head in order to relieve epilepsy or other similar afflictions. Strangely, trepanation was rarely fatal and the patient generally recovered without infection. 
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An infant deformed by radiation from the Chernobyl disaster.  Originally posted by death-by-design.
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Possibly the smallest person in recorded history, Caroline Crachami lived a sad life. Born somewhere around 1820, at her tallest she measured only 19.5 inches. Posthumously diagnosed with Seckel Syndrome, Caroline lived the first years of her life in rural Italy. When her health began to fail, she was taken to a doctor in England…and he promptly toured her around England under the name “The Sicilian Fairy” and claimed to be her father. A side effect of Seckel Syndrome, Caroline may have had an almost birdlike face, and delicate demeanor adding to the otherworldly effect of her small stature. 

On June 4th, 1824 Caroline died - reportedly in front of over 200 spectators. She was hypothesized to be about nine years old. Frantic, the doctor tried to sell her body to the highest bidder. When people were understandably perturbed by this offer, he donated her body to be autopsied at the Royal College of Surgeons.

Upon hearing of Caroline’s death, her distraught father made his way to England only to find that his daughter had already be autopsied, or was being autopsied (stories differ depending on the source, but more likely she had already been autopsied several days before) and he left empty-handed and brokenhearted. 

Further posthumous examination suggests that Caroline died of tuberculosis. Dental records from 1998 confirm that Caroline was much younger than the suggested nine years, and probably was only three or four when she died. Because her age was much younger than initially thought, some believe she is not the world’s smallest person. Other records exist, however, of her cognitive function being much higher than someone with her condition would be expected to be at ages three or four. It is unlikely the mystery of Caroline Crachami will ever be solved. 

Note: For those of you who have seen the 1932 film ‘Freaks’, a girl with the same condition appears under the name Koo-Koo the Bird Girl and is present in many scenes. 

(via prosthodontia)

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Accessory breasts, also known as polymastia, supernumerary breasts, or multiple breast syndrome, is the condition of having an additional breast. Extra breasts may appear with or without nipples or areolae. It is a condition and a form of atavism which is most prevalent in male humans, and often goes untreated as it is mostly harmless. In some cases, the accessory breast may not be visible at the surface. In these cases, it may be possible to distinguish their appearance from normal breast tissue with MRI. In other cases, accessory breasts have been known to lactate, as illustrated in a woodcut showing a child nursing at ectopic breast tissue on the lateral thigh.
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The two faces of Edward Mordake
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Conjoined Fetus
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Congenital absence of three fingers. Close-up of a patient’s deformed hand lacking three fingers. Deformities like this are usually caused by damage to the developing foetus in the womb.
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