ARE TWINS REALLY TWO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20001, 17 July 1920, Page 2

ARE TWINS REALLY TWO.

A PUZZLING SUBJECT. ("Pearson's Weekly.") Most people know, or have beard of; of remarkable "likeness between twins. But it is not so generally noticed that, when twins, are not ex.tremey alike they are always remark■"ly rj;ffer ent . y„i, never bee a case or ordinary familv likeness. Tins contrast shows not only in faco nnc jjnysiqiu., but also in temperament, md is particularly common when the twins are ot different sexes. Tho bov • lor_instance, may be tall, alert, encrpile and quick to kike ofFenee If .ho is. his twin sister is pretty sure .10 be short, plump, i aßy , nK ] cooing, lliis contrast pocs so far that they liaraly ever like -the same dishes An eminent, scientist has recently advanced the theory that twins arc not really wvo personalities, but one. When twins resemble one- another (and when they do the resemblance i* alwavs in r.haracter as well as face) they are a case of one personality duplicated. When twins are of tho contrasted tvpe tliov are n ease of halves which form the extreme sides of the one personality. N r SICK THROUGH SYMPATHY. There is a mysterious disease peculiar to twins that seems to bear out this theory. It , s called "sympathetic wkness.. itisihc strange form of physical sympathy that makes a twin, when too other h,* fallen sick, start to show the same symptoms, even though the aisease may not be an infection, one. ~i 8 are h ™%et* of well-authen-ticated cases similar to the ono mentioned recent y m a London paper, in winch a small boy had an acuVbilW ' attach for forty-eight hours after tuckmg in co some rich cakes'. Hi s twin brother who was knowf! not to have touched any of tho calces, was soon in )f.rt m iA hira, suffering from the ;ame fiolcn: symptoms. Re had all the vnwithout the pleasure. lhau some sort of telepathy exists ■euween twins Js certain, for this sympathetic Bicsncis has been known to happen even when twins arc far apart. -Dr trousseau, the celebrated French docor. mentions in ]-, is book on twins i. -unous case where he was visited bv n nan suffering from rheumatism of thieve. TWINS RUN'IN FAMILIES. The patient was a twin, and remarked o the doctor. "My tain brother is in Vienna. [ n m sure, he will be having us too. Dr Trousseau pooh-poohed lie idea, but a, few davs later wai i itnrtlet. when Ins patient handed him a ;ett<?r from tho brother in Vienna that logan, 'I am .having rheumatic ophhalmia. I expect you've got it too." The theory' that twins are not so ' ■ouch separate) individuals as 3 one individual split in two receives curious confirmation from the fact that there :re many cases on record of twins 'lying itlnn ii few hours or days of one anther. When the second does not die y\ tho same disease he or she dies for o particular reason, as far as the decors can see—simply heart failure. Tho oddh against any one particular lirth being: a, twin birth arc pretty nigh —about a hundred to one. But twins are much more likely to hanpen if the father or mother is a twin "or the offspring of a twin. The popular idea that twins run in families"is quite correct. Probably the most curious case of twins that ever happened was ono in which the twi 3 were born in different years. This may seem incredible, but is easily enough explained. Ono frst saw the light at a few minutes before midnicht on December 31. Tho othor puzzled the local registrar bv waiting till January 1 of tho following vear was a few minutes old. ' .. «- SERIOUS CHANCES s—:$ —: AHE TAKEN IN NEGLECTING ANY FORM OF SKIN TROUBLE. 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