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. Clinical Collection 2 [1887], facing pp. 24 and 40.
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Hidden treasure and Is part of: Klinicheskiĭ sbornik po dermatologīi.; See related catalog record: 67450670R