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There was a junction between the manubrium of each.
Sir Astley Cooper saw a monster in Paris in 1792 which, by his description, must have been very similar to Ritta-Christina. The Tocci brothers were born in 1877 in the province of Turin, Italy. They each had a well-formed head, perfect arms, and a perfect thorax to the sixth rib; they had a common abdomen, a single anus, two legs, two sacra, two vertebral columns, one penis, but three buttocks, the central one containing a rudimentary anus.
The right boy was christened Giovanni-Batista, and the left Giacomo.
Each individual had power over the corresponding leg on his side, but not over the other one.
Walking was therefore impossible.
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