Haller and Meckel have also observed cases like this.
Bordat described before the Royal Institute of France, August,
1826, a Chinaman, twenty-one years of age, who had an acephalous
fetus attached to the surface of his breast (possibly "A-ke").
Dickinson describes a wonderful child five years old, who, by an
extraordinary freak of nature, was an amalgamation of two
children. From the body of an otherwise perfectly formed child
was a supernumerary head protruding from a broad base attached to
the lower lumbar and sacral region. This cephalic mass was
covered with hair about four or five inches long, and showed the
rudiments of an eye, nose, mouth, and chin. This child was on
exhibition when Dickinson saw it. Montare and Reyes were
commissioned by the Academy of Medicine of Havana to examine and
report on a monstrous girl of seven months, living in Cuba. The
girl was healthy and well developed, and from the middle line of
her body between the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus,
attached by a soft pedicle, was an accessory individual,
irregular, of ovoid shape, the smaller end, representing the
head, being upward. The parasite measured a little over 1 foot in
length, 9 inches about the head, and 7 3/4 inches around the
neck.
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