. Obstetrics: the science and the art. born. The instancesof children with two heads are by no means rare, numerous exam-ples of them being contained in the books. The case so admirablydescribed by M. Serres, in his Anatomic Transcendente, appears to me particularly worthy the Studentsattention. This monster was born at Sas-sari, in the kingdom of Sardinia, in theyear 1829. There were two heads, a dou-ble thorax, with four arms, and one ab-domen with two legs. Being christened,the one on the right took the name ofEita, and the left one that of was brought to Paris ande
. Obstetrics: the science and the art. born. The instancesof children with two heads are by no means rare, numerous exam-ples of them being contained in the books. The case so admirablydescribed by M. Serres, in his Anatomic Transcendente, appears to me particularly worthy the Studentsattention. This monster was born at Sas-sari, in the kingdom of Sardinia, in theyear 1829. There were two heads, a dou-ble thorax, with four arms, and one ab-domen with two legs. Being christened,the one on the right took the name ofEita, and the left one that of was brought to Paris andexhibited there, until death closed the ex-hibition when the monster had attainedthe age of eighteen months. I subjoina figure (63) which represents a case ofdouble-headed foetus, born in AdamsCounty, Penna., in 1844, under the medi-cal care of Dr. Pfciffer, a German physi-cian in practice there, who brouglit themonster to this city. I engaged , one of our best artists, to painta portrait of it, from which this small Fig. PREGNANCY. 225 cut is taken, and represents it very correctly. In tMs figure, re-peated at 691, it is seen tliat the monster possessed only a rightand a left arm, whereas Eita-Christina had four arms, because, in hercase, the cervical, dorsal, and lumbar vertebrse were complete foreach child; whereas in this sample the cervical and dorsal vertebraeonly of each child were complete, while they united in a commonor single lumbar spine, and one pelvis. Eita and Christina eachhad its own ribs, and a sternum for each, yet admitting of a singlethoracic cavity for two hearts, and only two lungs. The liver wasa compound of two livers; there were two stomachs, two duodenums,two jejunums, and two ilia, uniting, towards their lower extremities,into a single short ilium, inserted into a single csecum. There wasbut one colon and one rectum, and one bladder of urine. The Comptes Eendus of the French Academy of Sciences for Sept,4th, 1858, contains a description,
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