This image of Joseph Merrick (1862–1890) was originally published in the British Medical Journal: “The “Elephant-Man”, British Medical Journal 2 (1354): 1188–1189, 11 December 1886, doi:10.1136/bmj.2.1354.1171. The image appears on page 1189. No photographer is credited in the British Medical Journal article of 1886.
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