existence in the parasite,
movements of respiration, etc., but its eyes were closed, and, although
saliva constantly dribbled from its open mouth, nothing was ever
ingested. The genitals were imperfect and the arms ended in badly
formed hands. Bartholinus examined this monster at twenty-two, and has
given the best report, although while in Scotland in 1642 he was again
examined, and accredited with being married and the father of several
children who were fully and admirably developed. Moreau quotes a case
of an infant similar in conformation to the foregoing monster, who was
born in Switzerland in 1764, and whose supernumerary parts were
amputated by means of a ligature. Winslow reported before the Academie
Royale des Sciences the history of a girl of twelve who died at the
Hotel-Dieu in 1733. She was of ordinary height and of fair
conformation, with the exception that hanging from the left flank was
the inferior half of another girl of diminutive proportions. The
supernumerary body was immovable, and hung so heavily that it was said
to be supported by the hands or by a sling. Urine and feces were
evacuated at intervals from the parasite, and received into a diaper
constantly worn for this purpose. Sensibility in the two was common, an
impression applied to the parasite being felt by the girl. Winslow
gives an interesting report of the dissection of this monster, and
mentions that he had seen an Italian child of eight who had a small
head proceeding from under the cartilage of the third left rib.
Sensibility was common, pinching the ear of the parasitic head causing
the child with the perfect head to cry. Each of the two heads received
baptism, one being named John and the other Matthew. A curious question
arose in the instance of the girl, as to whether the extreme unction
should be administered to the acephalous fetus as well as to the child.

In 1742, during the Ambassadorship of the Marquis de l'Hopital at
Naples, he saw in that city an aged man, well conformed, with the
exception that, like the little girl of Winslow, he had the inferior
extremities of a male child growing from his epigastric region. Haller
and Meckel have also observed cases like this. Bordat described before
the Royal Institute of France, August, 1826, a Chinaman, twenty-one
years of age, who had an acephalous fetus attached to the surface of
his breast (possibly "A-ke").

Dickinson describes a wonderful child five years old, who, by an
ex