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A Double-headed Child

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Day
17
Month
September
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dame Nature, who moves in mysterieus ways 'sometimes, revealed one of her nlÓst rurious freaks in the coniinemeiit of Mrs. T. II. Hyatt, the estimable lii.íidlmly of tilo Hyatt House of this placo, on the 27th and 28th of last montb, Vy wliich ehe gave still-birth to ft clliid with two heads on one; body, which, at tho solicitation of i'riends, the parents consented to liave preserved, and on Sunduy Lyrnan Clark, Esq., encased it in alcohol, where we were permitted to see it on Monday and obtnin this description for publieation. Tlie orpse is twenty inches long f rom top of head to end of toes, and between six and eight inches from point to point of shoulder, the encasement preveuting exact measurement, and weighed twelve pounds at birth. The body is a perfect female figure, fiilly and handsomely developed, without deformity in any particular, though there is a little distortion of the anides and one of the heads, caused by the severity of manipulation required in the delivery, and the two arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet and toes lia ve the distinct and perfect form of a natural and hoalthy child, the only distinguishable dift'erence of the entire body being in the unusually broad shoiilders, upon which rest two distinct, independent and perfectly developed heads, of the average size of an eiglit or nine-pound child, both apparently of a size. Tlio faces are perfect, rescmblc each other in every detail, aud each possessing a beauty rarely seen in infants - tin; eyes, ears, noses and ïnouths baing distinct, and fully and oquslly matured on each head. The necks are of usual lrngtli, and Drs. Allen and Brown are satisried that a branch of tlie spinal cord extends to each head aud has a junction with the main cord high up in the back, and are of the opinión that there is but one heart and one pair of lungs. From each head to tho point of the shoulder is about the same distance as on ohildren in general, and the heads, in an npright position, are separated by a short space, the ears nearly touehiug, and on the back of the shoulders is a fleshy substanw, jnst rising above the surface of the skin lxtween the two heads. In short, it is a perfectly and beautifully developed female form, with two equally develcped and beautiful mental organizations upou it, and an entire absence of any other deformity in

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