Horacio Quiroga
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Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. The jungle settings of his stories emphasized the conflict between humans and nature. His portrayals of ment
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Quiroga in 1897.
Quiroga repairing a canoe in San Ignacio, Misiones Province, 1926.
The house in San Ignacio where Quiroga lived, now a museum.
Joseph Merrick
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Joseph Carey Merrick, sometimes erroneously referred to as John Merrick, was an English man known for his severe physical deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show under the stage name "The
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…him. When Quiroga was in the emergency ward, he had learned that a patient was shut up in the basement with hideous deformities similar to those of Joseph Merrick. Taking pity, Quiroga demanded that the patient, named Vicent Batistessa, be released from confinement and moved into his room. Batistessa was grateful…
Merrick, c. 1889
Merrick photographed in 1888
Merrick photographed in 1889, the year before his death
The shop on Whitechapel Road where Merrick was exhibited. Today it sells saris.