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CHAPTER V
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Perspiration and elevation of temperature seemed to occur simultaneously in both.

To pander to the morbid curiosity of the curious, the "Dime Museum" managers at one time shrewdly clothed the parasite in female attire, calling the two brother and sister; but there is no doubt that all the traces of sex were of the male type.

An analogous case was that of "A-Ke," a Chinaman, who was exhibited in London early in the century, and of whom and his parasite anatomic models are seen in our museums.

Figure 58 represents an epignathus, a peculiar type parasitic monster, in which the parasite is united to the inferior maxillary bone of the autosite.
CLASS IX .-- Of "Lusus naturae" none is more curious than that of duplication of the lower extremities.

Pare says that on January 9, 1529, there was living in Germany a male infant having four legs and four arms.


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