The twins differed in complexion and color of the eyes and hair.
They were publicly exhibited for some time, and died February 19
and 20, 1891, at St. John's Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y. Figure 45 shows
their appearance several months after birth.
CLASS VI.--In our sixth class, the first record we have is from
the Commentaries of Sigbert, which contains a description of a
monstrosity born in the reign of the Emperor Theodosius, who had
two heads, two chests with four arms attached, but a single lower
extremity. The emotions, affections, and appetites were
different. One head might be crying while the other laughed, or
one feeding while the other was sleeping. At times they quarreled
and occasionally came to blows. This monster is said to have
lived two years, one part dying four days before the other, which
evinced symptoms of decay like its inseparable neighbor.
Roger of Wendover says that in Lesser Brittany and Normandy, in
1062, there was seen a female monster, consisting of two women
joined about the umbilicus and fused into a single lower
extremity. They took their food by two mouths but expelled it at
a single orifice. At one time, one of the women laughed, feasted,
and talked, while the other wept, fasted, and kept a religious
silence.
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