FIGHTING “SIAMESE” TWINS.
“Siamese” twins, girls a month old, who are joined face to face by a strip of flesh over an inch thick between their two stomachs, have been brought' to. Paris to be separated by a surgical operation. A radiograph examination suggests that the twins have no vital organs in common. They fight so fiercely T\nd continually with their little hands that they have had to be clothed in woollen vests inside which their arms are imprisoned. This, does not, however, prevent them from doing their best to bite each other.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3574, 25 February 1914, Page 6
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93FIGHTING “SIAMESE” TWINS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3574, 25 February 1914, Page 6
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