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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER V
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They were publicly exhibited for some time, and died February 19 and 20, 1891, at St.John's Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y.Figure 45 shows their appearance several months after birth.
CLASS VI .-- In our sixth class, the first record we have is from the Commentaries of Sigbert, which contains a description of a monstrosity born in the reign of the Emperor Theodosius, who had two heads, two chests with four arms attached, but a single lower extremity.

The emotions, affections, and appetites were different.

One head might be crying while the other laughed, or one feeding while the other was sleeping.

At times they quarreled and occasionally came to blows.

This monster is said to have lived two years, one part dying four days before the other, which evinced symptoms of decay like its inseparable neighbor.
Roger of Wendover says that in Lesser Brittany and Normandy, in 1062, there was seen a female monster, consisting of two women joined about the umbilicus and fused into a single lower extremity.


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