Adele died six hours afterward, and
Marie died of peritonitis on the next day.
CLASS III.--Those monsters joined by a fusion of some of the
cranial bones are sometimes called craniopagi. A very ancient
observation of this kind is cited by Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire.
These two girls were born in 1495, and lived to be ten years old.
They were normal in every respect, except that they were joined
at the forehead, causing them to stand face to face and belly to
belly. When one walked forward, the other was compelled to walk
backward; their noses almost touched, and their eyes were
directed laterally. At the death of one an attempt to separate
the other from the cadaver was made, but it was unsuccessful, the
second soon dying; the operation necessitated opening the cranium
and parting the meninges. Bateman said that in 1501 there was
living an instance of double female twins, joined at the
forehead. This case was said to have been caused in the following
manner: Two women, one of whom was pregnant with the twins at the
time, were engaged in an earnest conversation, when a third,
coming up behind them, knocked their heads together with a sharp
blow. Bateman describes the death of one of the twins and its
excision from the other, who died subsequently, evidently of
septic infection.
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