These two twins resembled one another in contour and
countenance. They were so joined that at rest they looked upon
one another. They had a single wife, with whom they were said to
have lived in harmony. In the Gentleman's Magazine about one
hundred and fifty years since there was given the portrait and
description of a double woman, who was exhibited all over the
large cities of Europe. Little can be ascertained anatomically of
her construction, with the exception that it was stated that she
had two heads, two necks, four arms, two legs, one pelvis, and
one set of pelvic organs.
The most celebrated monster of this type was Ritta-Christina, who
was born in Sassari, in Sardinia, March 23, 1829. These twins
were the result of the ninth confinement of their mother, a woman
of thirty-two. Their superior extremities were double, but they
joined in a common trunk at a point a little below the mammae.
Below this point they had a common trunk and single lower
extremities. The right one, christened Ritta, was feeble and of a
sad and melancholy countenance; the left, Christina, was vigorous
and of a gay and happy aspect. They suckled at different times,
and sensations in the upper extremities were distinct.
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