Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

1896

Gould and Pyle's 1896 compendium of medical rarities, drawn from centuries of case literature: prodigies of birth and development, extremes of stature and longevity, injuries improbably survived, and diseases at their strangest. Eighteen chapters of documented cases from the far edges of Victorian medicine.

Prefatory and Introductory
Chapter I Genetic Anomalies
Chapter II Prenatal Anomalies
Chapter III Obstetric Anomalies
Chapter IV Prolificity
Chapter V Major Terata
Chapter VI Minor Terata
Chapter VII Anomalies of Stature, Size, and Development
Chapter VIII Longevity
Chapter IX Physiologic and Functional Anomalies
Chapter X Surgical Anomalies of the Head and Neck
Chapter XI Surgical Anomalies of the Extremities
Chapter XII Surgical Anomalies of the Thorax and Abdomen
Chapter XIII Surgical Anomalies of the Genito-Urinary System
Chapter XIV Miscellaneous Surgical Anomalies
Chapter XV Anomalous Types and Instances of Disease
Chapter XVI Anomalous Skin-Diseases
Chapter XVII Anomalous Nervous and Mental Diseases
Historic Epidemics