From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, “monstrous births”—malformed or anomalous fetuses—were, to Western medicine, an object of superstition. In 19 th-century America, they became instead an ...
SCDIRB copy 39088019624139 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection. SCDIRB copy cataloged with funds from Dr. Alan Peterson. SCDIRB copy in publisher ...