CHILD WITH TWO HEADS
BIRTH IN BIRMINGHAM LONDON, Jan. 2. The Evening News reports that a child with two heads was born to the wife of an American soldier at Birmingham. The child, a female, was born prematurely and is not expected to live. She weighs 51b 2oz. Each head cries, and they feed at different times. The gynaecologist in charge of the case said the heads were joined at thp shoulder. He had never seen a similar case, though there were rare instanc'recorded in medical literature.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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87CHILD WITH TWO HEADS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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