A DOUBLE CHILD.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3169, 10 April 1871, Page 3

A DOUBLE CHILD.

A human monstrosity, in the shape of a double child, is the subject of lengthy notices and comments in the American papers, and promises to become a public exhibit, as only the second day after its birth an offer was made by a speculator, and accepted by the parents, to travel for two years with the child. It is the offspring of Mrs Joseph Finlay, whoso husband is a well-to-do farmer at Carrington, Ohio, A physician of prominence in the state thus describes the strange being, which was born in November last : — " This wonderful thing can be truly called a double child. Thero is but one spine, at each extremity of which there is a perfectly formed head and face. Each has wellformed shoulders, arms, and hands, and a good chest, containing lungs and heart, as any other human being. Each has also a stomach and livar. There is but one navel, which is in the centre of the abdomen, equi-distant from the two heads. It is at the middle of the body that the two are grown together. The abdomen appears to be but one, and the organß contained in it below the stomach, and email intestines, are

probably common to the two. Upon one side there is a well- formed pair of hips, legs, and feet. Upon the opposite side there is one large leg, possibly the consolidation of two legs, upon the extremity of which there are eight toes. Most monostrosilies are repugnant to look upon. This one is not so in any respect, excepting this leg. This child, or these children, are now ten days old, and are now doing as well as children mostly do at that period of existence. It nurses at both heads. One will be asleep while the other is crying, or sometimes both will sleep or cry at the sme time?. In sex it is a female. The length from the top of one head to the top of the other is 20 in, and the weight at birth was 10 lb." — " American Paper."