. The Boston medical and surgical journal. ident, and they appear scarcely, ifany, more resemblant than othertwins have appeared when clad inlike apparel. By the plate below, which is thatalready before the public, they wouldappear to be united by a cartilaginoussubstance of an hourglass shape, pass-ing from ihe epigastric region of one,and attached to that of the , however, is not the case. Theskin is continuous from one boy tothe other ; and with the exception ofa scar in the lower surface, evidentlyoccasioned by the removal of thecord through which they were nou-rished in the foet
. The Boston medical and surgical journal. ident, and they appear scarcely, ifany, more resemblant than othertwins have appeared when clad inlike apparel. By the plate below, which is thatalready before the public, they wouldappear to be united by a cartilaginoussubstance of an hourglass shape, pass-ing from ihe epigastric region of one,and attached to that of the , however, is not the case. Theskin is continuous from one boy tothe other ; and with the exception ofa scar in the lower surface, evidentlyoccasioned by the removal of thecord through which they were nou-rished in the foetal state, it presents no mark, blemish, or discolorationwhatever. This scar bears but littleresemblance to that usually left bythe division of the umbilicus ; a factwhich may be explained in two may be owing to some manner ofperforming this operation among theSiamese, different from that in useamong us ; or the constant pulling onthis connecting mass, may havedrawn it out, and occasioned the longand even surface which it On closer examination, the truenature of the union becomes ensiform cartilages of the sternaare bent outwards, and united by li-gaments at their extremities, formiuga kind of joint which admits of mo-tion in various directions. By thepulling of these ligaments, occasion-ed by almost every movement, the 460 BOSTON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL. integuments below have been drawnout, as it were, so that the wholeforms a band of union, horizontallyabout two inches broad, and in thick-ness, vertically, about four length is about half that represent-ed in the plate, and was doubtlessoriginally very small. The wholemass is tough, and capable of very considerably. Whenloose, that is, when the boys faceeach other and stand close together,if one hand be placed above thiscurvature and the other below it,and the latter be then pressed forci-bly up, the hands approach eachother so nearly, as to convey the im-pression (
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