Their
parents were well known in the rue des Gravelliers. According to
Bateman, and also Rueff, in the year 1552 there were born, not
far from Oxford, female twins, who, from the description given,
were doubtless of the ischiopagus type. They seldom wept, and one
was of a cheerful disposition, while the other was heavy and
drowsy, sleeping continually. They only lived a short time, one
expiring a day before the other. Licetus speaks of Mrs. John
Waterman, a resident of Fishertown, near Salisbury, England, who
gave birth to a double female monster on October 26, 1664, which
evidently from the description was joined by the ischii. It did
not nurse, but took food by both the mouths; all its actions were
done in concert; it was possessed of one set of genitourinary
organs; it only lived a short while. Many people in the region
flocked to see the wonderful child, whom Licetus called "Monstrum
Anglicum." It is said that at the same accouchement the birth of
this monster was followed by the birth of a well-formed female
child, who survived. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire quotes a description
of twins who were born in France on October 7, 1838,
symmetrically formed and united at their ischii. One was
christened Marie-Louise, and the other Hortense-Honorine.
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