Essays In Pastoral MedicineWalsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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Essays In Pastoral Medicine
Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
First aid in illness and injury; Medicine
Superfoetation is also possible. Tidy (_Legal Medicine_) gives a case:
"Mary Anne Bigaud, at thirty-seven, on April 30th, 1748, gave birth to
a full-term mature boy, which survived its birth two and a half
months, and to a second mature child (girl) on September 16th, 1748,
which lived for one year." The second child was born four and a half
months after the first, and both were "nine-months" children. It was
proved after death in this case that the mother had not a double
uterus, and the report is vouched for by Professor Eisenman, and by
Leriche, surgeon-major of the Strasburg Military Hospital. Several
other cases of superfoetation are given by Bonnar (_Edin. Med.
Journ.,_ January, 1865).
The third genus of Terata Katadidyma is the _Ischiopagus_. These twins
are divided so much from above downward that the heads are at almost
opposite ends of the double body. They are joined at the coccyges and
sacra, and the spinal columns have nearly the same axis. The trunk
organs are complete and separate, except that they are commonly fused
in the pelvis. There may be two, three, or four legs, given off at
right angles to the pelvis. This kind of monster is not rare. Förster
collected twenty cases, and nine new examples {83} were reported in
the _Index Medicus_ between 1879 and 1893. Ischiopagic twins were born
in County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1827, and baptised separately. The
Jones Twins, born in Typhon County, Indiana, in 1889, lived for about
two years; they were ischiopagi, and they had the very unusual
quality, it is said, that they differed in complexion and the colour
of eyes and hair. A case was reported in _American Medicine_,
September, 1903.
Classed with the Katadidyma is the genus _Pygopagus_, although it has
four legs. This form is very rare. The twins are joined only by the
latero-posterior aspects of the sacra and coccyges, so that the two
individuals are placed almost back to back. The trunk organs are
independent, except for some fusion near the point of juncture.
Examples of this class are the Hungarian Sisters, born at Szony in
1701, who lived to womanhood; the negresses Millie-Christine, born in
1851, and who were recently living in North Carolina; and the Blazek
Sisters of Bohemia. The negresses had common sensation in the legs,
but Millie could not localise what part of Christine's legs was
touched, and _vice versa_.
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