There was a
junction between the manubrium of each. Sir Astley Cooper saw a
monster in Paris in 1792 which, by his description, must have
been very similar to Ritta-Christina.
The Tocci brothers were born in 1877 in the province of Turin,
Italy. They each had a well-formed head, perfect arms, and a
perfect thorax to the sixth rib; they had a common abdomen, a
single anus, two legs, two sacra, two vertebral columns, one
penis, but three buttocks, the central one containing a
rudimentary anus. The right boy was christened Giovanni-Batista,
and the left Giacomo. Each individual had power over the
corresponding leg on his side, but not over the other one.
Walking was therefore impossible. All their sensations and
emotions were distinctly individual and independent. At the time
of the report, in 1882, they were in good health and showed every
indication of attaining adult age. Figure 48 represents these
twins as they were exhibited several years ago in Germany.
McCallum saw two female children in Montreal in 1878 named
Marie-Rosa Drouin. They formed a right angle with their single
trunk, which commenced at the lower part of the thorax of each.
They had a single genital fissure and the external organs of
generation of a female.
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