Julia Pastrana: The Bearded Lady

A boy with oral hair: case report.

In personal communication we have never seen or heard of hair being detected in the oral cavity. Even Julia Pastrana, the famous "Bearded Lady" of the 1800's, had no record of oral hair, although her entire body was covered with hair. Extensive records of her oral condition, including plaster models of her teeth have been preserved in the Odontological Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in...

The Lady Almoner

j'HOUSANDS of patients pass through the doors of a great hospital every year, and not all are ln-patients. Many receive advice and treatment ^hich can be carried out at home, and in every hospital the out-patient department is very important. Long hours are devoted by skilled physicians and surgeons to the treatment of out-patients, but having given their help, what is impossible to the medical...

The Hon. Lady Darwin

The Lady Windermere Syndrome

Background: Pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC-PD) radiographically resembles that due to tuberculosis; it preferentially affects elderly white men with predisposing pulmonary disorders (PDPD). Methods: 1\venty-thne patients with MAC-PD were identifled from a community-baned population, and the medical records and chest roentgenograms (CRs) of six with a previously undesc...

Julia Fischer

and female one, as Eric Vilain from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA, and colleagues have reviewed recently (Nat. Rev. Endocrinol. (2014) 10, 603–615). While these variations of human sex between male and female are not necessarily linked to the psychological issue of gender identity, both display a spectrum of many different shades that is much more complex than the traditional...