ied five years, and bore, in the space of three years, two
well-formed daughters.

Quite recently there was exhibited in the museums of the United States
an individual bearing the name "Laloo," who was born in Oudh, India,
and was the second of four children. At the time of examination he was
about nineteen years of age. The upper portion of a parasite was firmly
attached to the lower right side of the sternum of the individual by a
bony pedicle, and lower by a fleshy pedicle, and apparently contained
intestines. The anus of the parasite was imperforate; a well-developed
penis was found, but no testicles; there was a luxuriant growth of hair
on the pubes. The penis of the parasite was said to show signs of
erection at times, and urine passed through it without the knowledge of
the boy. Perspiration and elevation of temperature seemed to occur
simultaneously in both. To pander to the morbid curiosity of the
curious, the "Dime Museum" managers at one time shrewdly clothed the
parasite in female attire, calling the two brother and sister; but
there is no doubt that all the traces of sex were of the male type. An
analogous case was that of "A-Ke," a Chinaman, who was exhibited in
London early in the century, and of whom and his parasite anatomic
models are seen in our museums. Figure 58 represents an epignathus, a
peculiar type parasitic monster, in which the parasite is united to the
inferior maxillary bone of the autosite.

CLASS IX.--Of "Lusus naturae" none is more curious than that of
duplication of the lower extremities. Pare says that on January 9,
1529, there was living in Germany a male infant having four legs and
four arms. In Paris, at the Academie des Sciences, on September 6,
1830, there was presented by Madame Hen, a midwife, a living male child
with four legs, the anus being nearly below the middle of the third
buttock; and the scrotum between the two left thighs, the testicles not
yet descended. There was a well-formed and single pelvis, and the
supernumerary legs were immovable. Aldrovandus mentions several similar
instances, and gives the figure of one born in Rome; he also describes
several quadruped birds. Bardsley speaks of a male child with one head,
four arms, four legs, and double generative organs. He gives a portrait
of the child when it was a little over a year old. Heschl published in
Vienna in 1878 a description of a girl of seventeen, who instead of
having a duplication of the superior body,