Many people in the region flocked to see the wonderful child, whom Licetus called "Monstrum Anglicum." It is said that at the same accouchement the birth of this monster was followed by the birth of a well-formed female child, who survived.
Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire quotes a description of twins who were born in France on October 7, 1838, symmetrically formed and united at their ischii.

One was christened Marie-Louise, and the other Hortense-Honorine.

Their avaricious parents took the children to Paris for exhibition, the exposures of which soon sacrificed their lives.

In the year 1841 there was born in the island of Ceylon, of native parents, a monstrous child that was soon brought to Columbo, where it lived only two months.

It had two heads and seemed to have duplication in all its parts except the anus and male generative organs.
Montgomery speaks of a double child born in County Roscommon, Ireland, on the 24th of July, 1827.