Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 300
pub-lic museums and show places. Hippocrates mentions Phetuna, a woman whose beard tookto growing during theabsence of her husbandin exile. A Swedishgrenadier taken pris-oner by the Russiansin 1724, in the warwith Charles XII.,turned out to be a wo-man with a beard afoot and a half long.She was… … The Bearded Womax. the women of which do not differ at all from the men in regard to the hair on the face;but this ice will not claim as an absolute fact. Some of our readers may remember Madame JosephineClofullia, exhibited in this city in 1853. The foregoing wood-cut (fig. 388) does her beard no…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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