Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-09-11

was, that within the distance OF three fourihs OF an
inch from the centre towards each boy, sensation
was communicated to both by SINGLE prick; beyond
this it excited in only, the other perceiving
1t in no degree whatever. The experiment was re-
morkably satisfactory. and we apprehend that farther
than here exhibited, the two youths must be consd
cred, whilst state of health as free and ndepen-
dent agents, and the functions of all the other o: aus
as unconnected as those Of their brains.
Twins generally resemble each other in intellect
and disposition, well as in person. and this is partl-
culary the case with the boys in question. When |
10 this natural resemblance add the habit they
have contracted of acting simultaneously and in con-
cert we shall be less surprised than might at first
he, at the facility with which their various movements
performed, and the guckness with which one re-
spends to the incinations of the other.
In the course of their voyage, they would not only
told, and leap with agility and without in
tcricring with each other but climb the mas, head
as far as any sailor on board the ship. They are
seldom observed 10 converse with each other and the
concert with which they act seems to be almost in
stnctive. In playing the game of drafts, c. o..
which they learnt with great case, being of people
naturally fond of games and gambling they were Oh
served to decide on their moves almost instantanc
ously, and to make them with quic kncss and air of
decision sufficiently characteristic of all their move
ments. In the course OF the game, sometimes one
and sometimes the other would make the move they
appeared to have the plans, and always ocoui-
esced In the moves of each other. Yet they some
times play against each other; but so strong is their
habit of co-acting, that such games 90 on with less
freedom than when opposing a third person.--Their
alvne excavations generally occur at the same time
Their appetites and taste all very much alike; and
they appear not only conented but happy, and ex-
tremcly attached to each other. Captain Coffin was
Informed by their mother, that she had borne seven
teen children. Once she had three at BIRTH and
never less than two; though of her other chill
drcn were Ill any way deformed
The question naturally arises in the mind of every
observer could not this connecting substance be div.
de1 without injury 20 the hoys2--We do not pretcnd
to solve this problem which after all can ONLY be fully
decided by the experiments but hesitate not to say
that, after several very accurate examinations our
Impressions that such division would be n de,ti
ment only TO the very respectable and oblieinp gen-
teman who offers them for exhibition. The anato-
mical structure of this bond of union is apparently
simple and we regard the fact that children united
Should have been ushered into the world with safety
to themselves and their mother that they should have
escaped the ills and early fatality which usually at
tend such prodigies, that they should have grown up
to the age OF I3 years in the uniform exercise OF
mutual good will and spirit of mutual accommoda
ton and that they should be perfectly con,ented
with their lot. and happy in all the various unpea
SAINT circumstances in which thew are place5 ne far
more remarkable than that such deforinty should
have Observation-Disclosures of fuetuSes united much
: more closely than arc these boys, by no means
!, rare IN the books of cabinets of anatomsts. The
mode of union Is very various, being sometimes at
the hips, BACKS sides; several are related nv
Parcc and Tulpus, in which the connection was a;
J. the abdomen. In the Philosophical Transactions is
an account of two children thus united, born near
: Manchester, Eng. in l75l.-IB 1743 DR.. Parsons
: communicated to the Royal Society an account of a
still birth very unlike that Of the bows now eybib
tied. The foetuses united from the umdiicus to
the upper part of the sernum and the sngle cord bv
which they nourshed, entered the connectinIr
medium ut central point on its lower surface-Dr
Cotton Mather communicated learned friend in
England similar case, of which he was eve witness
and which occurred in this city in 1912: aud aou
bic fntus, born in this country at much later period
now preserved and deposited, if mistake not in
the anatomical cabinet Of neg hboring medical in
II stitution. "
Most monsters have been still born, and fthe few
VINO nave been living, very >sma proportion have
survived many days. The most remarkable and as
lar Us our memory goes, The only case on record of
S4ch monsters acquiring the adult age occurred in
: hungary more than century ago. Two females
judith and Helen, born in Snoza in 1901 were united
II at the lower part of the back, They had between
tnel nut one urethra and passage for the fncaI
e'dcuatlons. Their bodies, abating The deformed
part alluded to, were we'll shaped and their faces
pcautiui. lhey were intelligent, and, like the bows
! OF Siam, not only cOntented but in the anpuaue OF
their father; "both brisk and merry" Like them,
Il also, these girls chad not their feelinp common
= any where but in the place of their conjunction ~"
when one stopped she lifted the other on her back
: and when one vent forward the other was drawn
backward One would sometimes sleep whilst the
DINER was awake, and though tenderly attached their
nclnatlons were not always the same. These Hum
ganan sisters were well educated and well bred.
they could speak four different languages and sin ~
y very prettIly hey lived to the age of twenty two
years, during which time they were exhibited in diff
ferent parts OF Europe, and both died together in
1873. "
From the Literary Snbaltern.