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… in Seventeenth-century England’, in Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If it was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (Baltimore: Johns … at meetings, and published in the Philosophical Transactions , included monstrous births, dwarfs and giants, intersex bodies, and some striking accounts of ‘a double kitten joined at the breast having one head and two bodies’, and ‘a monstrous lamb with a face, shoulders, arms to the elbows and whole trunk of a man.’ 16 As the Royal …
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