On the origin of double monstrosity / by Bertram C.A. Windle.

  • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
Date:
[1889]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the origin of double monstrosity / by Bertram C.A. Windle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Two questions remain for consideration, Avhich can only here be mentioned, since their detailed examination would cause this paper to grow to a size too great. These are, firstly, with regard to the so-called parasites, are such forms due to unequal fission, the smaller half producing the parasite, the larger the autosite, or is the disproportion caused by the blighting effect of the larger and more fortunate twin upon its less successful partner ? Secondly, what relation is there between the excess of material which leads to the production of giants, of unilateral congenital hypertrophy of the body, or of a part, such as the face, an extremity, or some of the digits, and that excess of material which it has been suggested in this paper causes the formation of some species of double monstrosity? These are questions which will require consideration on some future occasion.
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