File:Polytrichia (I︠u︡līi︠a︡ Pastrana)..JPG

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English: Image of the corpse of Julia Pastrana. Pastrana died in childbirth while in Moscow in 1860. Anatomy professor Ivan M. Sokolov performed the autopsy and embalmed her body. Apparently a colleague alerted Mansurov to the autopsy photographs preserved at the Anatomy Institute of Moscow University Medical School, and he included it in a follow-up article on differences between "acquired" and "hereditary" polytrichia. Clinical Collection 2 [1887], facing pp. 24 and 40.
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Source Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. Images from the History of Medicine (IHM), http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/A109113. Also showcased in the book: Hidden Treasure (New York, NY: Blast Books, 2012), p. 113. HMD call number: WR M289k 1890.
Author Mansurov, N. (Nikolaĭ Porfirʹevich), 1834-1892.

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