' At his own request he was interred in a
waste place, without stone or legend to mark his grave."
A most curious case was that of a Fellah woman who was delivered
at Alexandria of a bicephalic monster of apparently eight months'
pregnancy. This creature, which was born dead, had one head white
and the other black the change of color commencing at the neck of
the black head. The bizarre head was of negro conformation and
fully developed, and the colored skin was found to be due to the
existence of pigment similar to that found in the black race. The
husband of the woman had a light brown skin, like an ordinary
Fellah man, and it was ascertained that there were some negro
laborers in port during the woman's pregnancy; but no definite
information as to her relations with them could be established,
and whether this was a case of maternal impression or
superfetation can only be a matter of conjecture.
Fantastic monsters, such as acephalon, paracephalon, cyclops,
pseudencephalon, and the janiceps, prosopthoracopagus,
disprosopus, etc., although full of interest, will not be
discussed here, as none are ever viable for any length of time,
and the declared intention of this chapter is to include only
those beings who have lived.
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