History and medical description of the two-headed girl : sold by her agents for her special benefit, at 25 cents / told in "her own particular way" by "one of them."

Date:
1869
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Credit: History and medical description of the two-headed girl : sold by her agents for her special benefit, at 25 cents / told in "her own particular way" by "one of them.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    as in a single individual. The union extends from the top of the sacrum across from one ilium to the other, with a slight degree of obliquity, which is more con- siderable in the body above the junction, the result of long-continued position while lying in bed, and of voluntary effort with a view to convenience while standing or sitting. The inner limbs are a little shorter than the outer ones; the result is that in standing the outer feet rest firmly on the floor, while the inner ones merely rest upon the front parts, the heels being ele- vated. Standing as above described, Christina is the left hand twin, she is somewhat larger and stronger than ]&Iillie. Christina lifts Millie when she stoop?, and walks or runs with her with great ease; no pain or strain is experienced at the seat of the junction. jMillie being weaker, cannot perform the same feat with her sister. The w^oman who has the care of them informed me that they experience the desire to de- fecate, or to m'inate simultaneously; only one anus and rectum exists. I was assured that the urine is voided iu a single stream. The day that I examined the twins was very hot, the mercury was above 90° of Fahrenheit's scale. I counted the pulse of each, while they were standing, and found Christina's to be 68 per