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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER V
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They both became Christians and members or attendants of the Baptist Church.
Figure 31 is a representation of the Siamese twins in old age.

On each side of them is a son.

The original photograph is in the Mutter Museum, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
The feasibility of the operation of separating them was discussed by many of the leading men of America, and Thompson, Fergusson, Syme, Sir J.Y.Simpson, Nelaton, and many others in Europe, with various reports and opinions after examination.

These opinions can be seen in full in nearly any large medical library.

At this time they had diseased and atheromatous arteries, and Chang, who was quite intemperate, had marked spinal curvature, and shortly afterward became hemiplegic.


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