#polytrichia

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polytrichia | excessive hairiness

[pwlanier]

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.

National Library of Medicine