They
expelled urine and feces simultaneously, and had the indications
in common. Their parents, who were very poor, brought them to
Paris for the purpose of public exhibition, which at first was
accomplished clandestinely, but finally interdicted by the public
authorities, who feared that it would open a door for psychologic
discussion and speculation. This failure of the parents to secure
public patronage increased their poverty and hastened the death
of the children by unavoidable exposure in a cold room. The
nervous system of the twins had little in common except in the
line of union, the anus, and the sexual organs, and Christina was
in good health all through Ritta's sickness; when Ritta died, her
sister, who was suckling at the mother's breast, suddenly relaxed
hold and expired with a sigh. At the postmortem, which was
secured with some difficulty on account of the authorities
ordering the bodies to be burned, the pericardium was found
single, covering both hearts. The digestive organs were double
and separate as far as the lower third of the ilium, and the
cecum was on the left side and single, in common with the lower
bowel. The livers were fused and the uterus was double. The
vertebral columns, which were entirely separate above, were
joined below by a rudimentary os innorminatum.
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