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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER V
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One was weak and puny and the other robust and active; it is probable that they had but one rectum and one bladder.

Goodell accompanies his description by the mention of several analogous cases.

Ellis speaks of female twins, born in Millville, Tenn., and exhibited in New York in 1868, who were joined at the pelves in a longitudinal axis.

Between the limbs on either side were to be seen well-developed female genitals, and the sisters had been known to urinate from both sides, beginning and ending at the same time.
Huff details a description of the "Jones twins," born on June 24, 1889, in Tipton County, Indiana, whose spinal columns were in apposition at the lower end.

The labor, of less than two hours' duration, was completed before the arrival of the physician.


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