. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. raremonstrosity among animals. Ischiopagus symmetros. (Palfyn: Descript. deux Enfants, etc. Vide Licetus, De Monstris,Appendix, Leide, 1708. Fisher : Diplot&ratdlogy, Trans-actions of the Medical Society of the State of New York,1866, p. 243, Fig. 15, Case 26.) Fig. 3852 represents a. FIG. 3853.—Ischiopagus Symmetros. (Palfyn.) monster of this genus, born in Ghent, Flanders, April28, 1703. The labor was natural. Each head was sepa-rately baptized. One c
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. raremonstrosity among animals. Ischiopagus symmetros. (Palfyn: Descript. deux Enfants, etc. Vide Licetus, De Monstris,Appendix, Leide, 1708. Fisher : Diplot&ratdlogy, Trans-actions of the Medical Society of the State of New York,1866, p. 243, Fig. 15, Case 26.) Fig. 3852 represents a. FIG. 3853.—Ischiopagus Symmetros. (Palfyn.) monster of this genus, born in Ghent, Flanders, April28, 1703. The labor was natural. Each head was sepa-rately baptized. One child lived twenty-seven hours, thestronger one two hours longer. Females, one vulva com-plete, the other rudimentary. One perfect and one im-perforate anus. In the non-symmetrical forms of ischiopagus, one orboth of the component bodies are more or less most instances there is an unequal balancing of partsin relation to the median line of fusion. The genus isdivided into four species. 1. Ischiopagus telrapus. Two bodies, one or both ofwhich are more or less imperfectly developed, united atthe pelves, having a common vertebral axis, four pelvicextremities, arranged in lateral pairs, with correspond-ing genitals, etc. 2. Ischiopagus tripus. Differing from above by havingthree pelvic extremities, one lateral pair, with genitalsand anus ; and a single or fused pelvic extremity on theopposite side and at ri
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