An analogous case was that of "A-Ke,"
a Chinaman, who was exhibited in London early in the century, and
of whom and his parasite anatomic models are seen in our museums.
Figure 58 represents an epignathus, a peculiar type parasitic
monster, in which the parasite is united to the inferior
maxillary bone of the autosite.
CLASS IX.--Of "Lusus naturae" none is more curious than that of
duplication of the lower extremities. Pare says that on January
9, 1529, there was living in Germany a male infant having four
legs and four arms. In Paris, at the Academie des Sciences, on
September 6, 1830, there was presented by Madame Hen, a midwife,
a living male child with four legs, the anus being nearly below
the middle of the third buttock; and the scrotum between the two
left thighs, the testicles not yet descended. There was a
well-formed and single pelvis, and the supernumerary legs were
immovable. Aldrovandus mentions several similar instances, and
gives the figure of one born in Rome; he also describes several
quadruped birds. Bardsley speaks of a male child with one head,
four arms, four legs, and double generative organs. He gives a
portrait of the child when it was a little over a year old.
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