Medical Anomalies: An Image Archive for Artists and Designers

Medical Anomalies from Vault Editions is a resource of 240 downloadable illustrations documenting defects, deformities and medical anomalies as represented from the 15th to 18th-century. It is a powerful resource for tattoo artists, illustrators, designers and fine artists looking for rare and unusual sources of reference material. Categories include conjoined twins, supernumerary limbs, giants, cyclopia, leprosy, elephantiasis, deformities of the skull, congenital abnormalities, spina bifida, hydrocephalus and much more. This book is designed for creative practitioners to introduce unusual and little known medical anomalies into their visual references and take their designs to the next level.