One was of a gay and the other
a sad visage, and both heads received nourishment; they only
lived a couple of days. There is another similar record of a
Milanese girl who had two heads, but was in all other respects
single, with the exception that after death she was found to have
had two stomachs. Besse mentions a Bavarian woman of twenty-six
with two heads, one of which was comely and the other extremely
ugly; Batemen quotes what is apparently the same case--a woman in
Bavaria in 1541 with two heads, one of which was deformed, who
begged from door to door, and who by reason of the influence of
pregnant women was given her expenses to leave the country.
A more common occurrence of this type is that in which there is
fusion of the two heads. Moreau speaks of a monster in Spain
which was shown from town to town. Its heads were fused; it had
two mouths and two noses; in each face an eye well conformed and
placed above the nose; there was a third eye in the middle of the
forehead common to both heads; the third eye was of primitive
development and had two pupils. Each face was well formed and had
its own chin. Buffon mentions a cat, the exact analogue of
Moreau's case. Sutton speaks of a photograph sent to Sir James
Paget in 1856 by William Budd of Bristol.
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