Joseph Merrick

Joseph Merrick, Joseph Kerry Merrick, also known as Elephant, born August 5, 1862, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, 11 April 1890, London, a short career "freak" from 1886 to his death Afterwards, he was ruined and died, he became a hospital at a London hospital.

Merrick was clearly normal, until about 5 years old, he began to reveal strange signs of illness, abnormally growing his skin and much of the bone. His head size increased to the circumference of 3 feet from the back of the head and to the skin like a sponge hanging from his face; deformity of the jaw, his facial expression Or I could not speak clearly. His left arm is normal, but his right arm ends with a wrist with a 12 inch (30 cm) circumference and fin hands. His legs were deformed just like the arms, and a defective butt caused such claudication, and Merrick could only walk with a stick. Cases of Meric neurofibromatosis have long been considered to be very serious, but his deformity may be a very rare illness, Proteus syndrome.

Merrick was trapped in the studio at the age of 17 and then fled to participate in a grotesque performance (1883) four years later. During the exhibition, he was founded by London doctor Frederick Treves and was hospitalized at the London Hospital (1886). Attempts that failed to find letters from Merrick Hospital to treat chronic cases gathered attention in London society, which gave him certain popularity, led Merrick to accept Alexandra It was. Visit by some celebrities. Princess of Wales. He stayed in a London hospital till the age of 27 and passed away by chance smothering sleep

Merrick's play, Elephant Man of Bernard Pomeranne appeared in 1979, and an extraneous film based on Meric's lifetime, released in 1980, David Lynch, John Heart played Merrick.

Joseph Carry Merrick was born on 5th August 1862, 50 Leicester Street, Joseph Rockefellerick and his wife Mary Jane (formerly Potterton). Joseph · Rockley · Merrick (about 1838-1897) is the son of Weaver Barnaba Merrick (1791 - 1856) born in London who emigrated to Leicester in the 1820s or 1830s and was born in London as the third wife did. Sarah Rockley. Mary Jane Potterton (around 1837 - 1873) was born in Evington, Leicestershire State, my father was William Potterton and was said to be an agricultural worker in Leicestershire State in Thurmaston in 1851. She was said to have some form of physical disability and after working as a maid as a young woman in Leicester, she married Joseph Rockley Merrick (then warehouse manager) in 1861.

The following year, Joseph Kelly Merrick was born, apparently healthy, and in the first few years of his life there were no external symptoms of any disease. After missionary William Carey, he was named after his father and his mother was Baptist. Merrick has two children instead of having three children in his mother's grave. John Thomas, born on April 21, 1864, died of smallpox on July 24, the same year, and there is nothing to do with Joseph and Mary Mary. The other two children were born in January 1866, died of scar red fever at the age of 4 on December 21, 1870, Marian Eliza, born September 28, 1867, March 1891 he was 19 At the age of her age, he was disabled and died of osteomyelitis and "seizures". William was buried in Leicester's Welford Road Cemetery with his mother, aunt and uncle and Marianne was buried with her father in Leicester's Bellegrave Cemetery.