A portrait of these twins was shown at the World's Fair
in Chicago.
In the village of Arasoor, district of Bhavany, there was
reported a monstrosity in the form of two female children, one 34
inches and the other 33 3/4 inches high, connected by the
sternum. They were said to have had small-pox and to have
recovered. They seemed to have had individual nervous systems, as
when one was pinched the other did not feel it, and while one
slept the other was awake. There must have been some vascular
connection, as medicine given to one affected both.
Fig. 36 shows a mode of cartilaginous junction by which each
component of a double monster may be virtually independent.
Operations on Conjoined Twins.--Swingler speaks of two girls
joined at the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus, the band of
union being 1 1/2 inches thick, and running below the middle of
it was the umbilical cord, common to both. They first ligated the
cord, which fell off in nine days, and then separated the twins
with the bistoury. They each made early recovery and lived.
In the Ephemerides of 1690 Konig gives a description of two Swiss
sisters born in 1689 and united belly to belly, who were
separated by means of a ligature and the operation afterward
completed by an instrument.
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