The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-02-05
WILL posr MoRrEM BE AlADEq

The above question, Wall at once tax
4 the reader "a the next thing to be pur
\ sued A portion Of the members OF thu
j family are willing, but the others Will no
consent to it unless it be unanimous. Ont
daughter, who is at the present time suf.
fering from the consumption, decidedly
j opposes any such examination and as she
is q great fsyorite In both families, anc
| her wishes are to be consulted, 1t Is sup
| posed great trouble will ensue. The mem
bsrs of the family are scattered all oveI
I the United States, and have been written
| to, requesting their assent to the propos-
| ed view, but as yet no answers have been
rAceived. 1t is supposed however, that
arrangements will be made for thorough
investigation of the mystery connecting
these two entities, and it is earnestly
hoped that PhilSdelphia professor may
have the honor Of laying before the world
the solution Of the qusstlon WHICH has
gexed the minds of medical men Tor the
past fifty years, s..J s-.. - =
, WHAT WAS DONE W EILE THEY LIVED.
While the twins were living. some 'oi
the ablest medical and surgical talent in
the world made an examination of the
likatare winch united them, and although
DIVIDED IN opinion majority OF the ea-
vans exprassed their opinion that sever
ence of the heshY bond of union would
prove fatal to The lives of both. We be-
ieve however, that several surgeons were
fc und who were willing to try the eXpe-
riment, but that when the time came for
the operation the twins themselves Inter
posed, as well they might, in view of pos
sibie if not probable results. While it
was generally agreed that the igature did
not serve as q sheath or covering for any
thing like an intestine passing from one
to the other, an experiment was tried, we
believe, in Paris, which demonstrated the
fact that there was a medium of circula-
tion, and that it contained one or more
arteries. A compress was placed around
it, midway between the twins. In short
time one of them tainted, aSd the COM
press was quickly removed to prevent
more serious results. This was sufficient
evidence to those who witnessed the ex-
pertinent that the heshy band was me-
oIum of circulation, and that to sever it
would be to destroy the lives of both Eng
and Chang.
A MEDICAL OPINION.
The following extract from the Medical
Journal, published IN Louisville, Ken
lucky, dIsposes of much crude and senate
rial writing on the subject of the eonnec-
ton between the Slamese Twins:
There is, IN fact, nothing more common
between these Siamese twins than what
would have been acquired by any other
twins Indisssolubly connected by hem
pen or metallic cord, and subjected, as they
have been, to precisely similar oircum-
stances from their birth, Indeed, the
band uniting them is almost insensible, so
much so that, on shipboard, they were
pulled shout by rope tied to it. No
pulsation vessels have been detected in it,
though, undoubtedly, it is Just here, and
nowhere else, IN the center of this cord,
made up of gristle and skin, and for about
an inch on,either side, that there are ves-
sells and nerves, communicating from one
to the other Here, but nowhere else, q
touch on the space indicated Is felt by
BOTH & @-.. i.t-- o.. 4
p Precisely here, and here alone in the
bond uniting them, there is q sensation
and nothing else whatever common to
both. If they are inclined to sleep, eat
&e., and perform the functions of life with
with great similarity and agree always in
their tastes and habits, we must recollect
that their surroundings, positions &c, have
al been precissly alike. People forget.
too! that one Of them Is irritable, the 9th
erl Very mild one of them is the larger,
stronger and the more inteiligent, and ne
controls the other His slightest move
ment Is followed by the weaker one from
necSssity, ana not as generally supposed
ffoh unity of'Wiii or Harmonious action.
Yhsy Play gSinss 'ons- against the other,
mdih&VS 4uarrefsd Just like other good
brethren, and more than once. While at
sss bne wanted -to-take-U- old-hzth, to
tWHieh the ether objected, and the Captain
had TO inteTfere to produce reconcelia-
ton. How absurd then to talk of perfect
eoasentaAsons thought, action, &c., be-
tween them.
r. 5aa :. The decision given by the profession
Ia Europe and America thirty-elght years
ago, when the case was first put on exhi-,
bftion, vas that the hgament Of union,
was bartifagipous. probably ., prolonga-
tion ofthe euaifoEm cartilage from the
sterHQm, ana the7chief,a if not the only obs
jsctiSn to its division has been that the
peritpueum might be involved In the OPP
er1tipn, 40 It was, moreover, not one de-.
msneed by surgery for the twins have
GYad, and, might yet live for years. The
question Of separation therefore, was with
themselves or their guardisns, and not
The profession. There was no disagree=
ments, no difersncss among the doctors
ON this subject, The case was involved
IN no mystery and the diagnoses was
easily made. -.L5 --a -- -.-7-i 4
81 THE CONNECTING SUBSTANCE.
/, "A paper By Professor John O. Warren,
N. ID, which was Published in the Amer
lean Journal OfSoienee and Arts, in 1880,
states that-ths substance by which they
were connected was 3 mass two inches at
It's lupper edge and about Ave at the lower.
It's breadth from CRb9Ys -doRnWard& was
about four inches, and its thickness in q
= Horizontal direction two inches This
cord vas eEfEemely hard at the upper end
only, and was found TO be prolonged into
the B east. Of each body. It probably
contained no palsating vessel, and was,
covered Lskin--H Was remarkably
strong, and had no great Iensibiitys Tor
tnau allnwad thamsaIYas 70 be pulled bY e