| An account of Mordake's story was detailed in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine: One of the weirdest, as well as the most melancholy stories of human deformity, is that of Edward Mordake, said to have been heir to one of the noblest peerages in England | Avner Falk, Franks and Saracens: Reality and Fantasy in the Crusades, Jul 2010, p |
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| "King Henry III and Saint Edward the Confessor: the origins of the cult" | Pyle, included an account of Mordake |
The article describes a number of cases of what Hildreth refers to as "human freaks", including a woman who had the tail of a fish, a man with the body of a spider, a man who was half-crab, and Edward Mordake.
15| Writing Letters for the Blind | " Such were the words of the hapless Mordake to Manvers and Treadwell, his physicians |
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| Mordake is featured as the "2 Very Special Cases" on a list of "10 People with Extra Limbs or Digits" in the 1976 edition of | Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine [ ] The 1896 medical encyclopedia Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, co-authored by Dr |
I beg and beseech you to crush it out of human semblance, even if I die for it.