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Elephant Man: Measured by the Soul - The Life of Joseph Merrick
Jeanette Sitton, Mae Siu Wai Stroshane
ASIN: B00HPOOZAA
Publisher: Schlimmer Publishing
Pages: 240

Elephant Man: Measured by the Soul is the first full-length work about the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick, in over 20 years, featuring never-before-seen photographs, the latest research on his life, important medical information, and poignant interviews with modern-day sufferers of Proteus Syndrome. The legend of The Elephant Man begins as he exhibits himself in a penny freakshop in Whitechapel Road, just across from the London Hospital in Victorian England. Frederick Treves, an anatomist and rising young surgeon with award-winning textbooks to his credit, ventures over to see this "Great Freak of Nature," as the garish posters announce. Treves, drawn by a mixture of personal curiosity and professional ambition in diagnosing rare conditions of all kinds, sees something so vivid that he remembers it thirty years later, as he opens his memoirs with that first encounter with the Elephant ...
Amazon Rating:
4 stars from 4 ratings