. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. so slighta degree as to exhibit meretraces of duality in the sa-cral or coccygeal funis is single. Thehead and all portions ofthe body above the funisare apparently single. The dipygus has beenchiefly observed among thelower animals. I havenotes and references tothirty cases. The calf,lamb, pig, dog, and cat,have all furnished exam-ples. Fig. 3866 representsa case in the calf. There are one head and chest, twofront legs, and double hind parts, four l
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. so slighta degree as to exhibit meretraces of duality in the sa-cral or coccygeal funis is single. Thehead and all portions ofthe body above the funisare apparently single. The dipygus has beenchiefly observed among thelower animals. I havenotes and references tothirty cases. The calf,lamb, pig, dog, and cat,have all furnished exam-ples. Fig. 3866 representsa case in the calf. There are one head and chest, twofront legs, and double hind parts, four legs,and two tails. The double tails of lizards,duality in the back part ofthe body, and the presenceof two tails in the king-crab(or horseshoe crab), belongalso to this genus. I possessa specimen of this kind. Theonly cases that I have foundin the human subject are inthe works of Licetus, andother old authors of uncer-tain authority, though it isnot improbable that cases ofthis kind have occurred, andmay yet be seen in III.—Anacatadidyma.—In this order theduplicity with separation occurs, coincidently, at both. Fio. S805.—Opposite side of (Fisher.) **
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