Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-09
MoNSTROSITIES
They HaVa Cut Figures In His
tory.
Authenticated Gases Which
Makes the Siamese Twins
Appear Almost Nor
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i~nc'nuAtl Enquirer. II
"He Is a very devil In royal skin,"
was q remark made of Henry VIII.
when he procured q divorce from Anne
Boleyn, but the majority of readers Of
English history are unaware Of the
fact that, although considered themost
beautiful woman of her day, she had
congenial deformities. There were
six toes ION each foot, and she had
three breasts In o straight line across
her chest, and with these deformities
her royal spouse became disguised to
such q degree that he procured q
divorce from her.
There are numerous cases OF this
deformity recorded. One, three, four,
FIVE and even more breasts have been
reported as belonging to one In.
dividual. These supernumerarles are
sometimes In Q straight line with the
normal ones-sgsin, under the arm or
on the hips. Several cases where they
were on the back, and In one or two
cases they are reported ss forming dia-
mond and triangular shapes. There Is
one Ease recorded where the female
had eight breasts -four on each side.
Many of the numerous cases of de-.
formity reported surpass belief. There
was o monster at the court of st.
james who was twenty. eight years Of
age at the time the observation was
taken. He was perfect In every way
bat one He possessed two heads
one of which was very smart and the
other very stupid; the stupid n kept
him in 30 much trouble that all his
time was spent In allowing his smart
one to get him out Of scrapes his other
head had caused. His stupid head
died q short time after this report,
and the whole nan lived for ten days
after, until the dead head had almost
separated from the body by decompo-
sition.
Valentine and Home relate the case
Of a child In Bengal who was the I'M
lucky possessor of two heads. In this
case the heads were placed one on top
of the other, and Joined very closely
together. They were both perfect In
formation. Sometimes n of the
heads would bs asleep and the other
awake. If the hair of one head were
pulled the other head would cry; II
one mouth we're fed the other mouth
would water and show evident s'gns
of satiation. The monstroslty lived
for four years and was In the best OF
health at the time of Its death, which
was caused by the bite of a viper.
Winston tells of an italian child
eight years of age who carried a little
head under Its right arm, which little
head peeped out, giving one the i'm.
preston that the body of the little
head was buried In the somewhat
larger body of Its bearer. The little
head was christened Matthew and the
larger one was christened James. II
little Matthews ear was pinched
James roared, but at all times little
Matthew wa under the impression
that he was In reality the only protec.
ton that James had. The last report
of this double boy says he vas in per-
feet health.
A story Is told of q Moor In Tunis,
80 years OF age, whose head was &C
large that a crowd always followed
him on the street. His mouth was &C
conspicuous chat he could place @
muskmelon In 1t as easily as the small
boy of to-day could . cherry. H.
was four feet four inches In height,
and the distance from his chin to the
top of his head was twenty.thret
inches-over ore.third of his height
: Benventi saw o lad well proper
toned except as to his head. At tn,
age of seven the head began to grow
rapidly, 80 that when he was twenty
seven years old his face and his heat
were fifteen iches long and thirty. eigh
inches In circumference.
The number CT double children pre-
senting far more astonishing feature
than the well-known Slamese twins |
large.
Button relates the history of tw
girls who were joined at their abdo
mems. At six years the little blonde
Helena, became paraly zed. The taller
Judith, a brunette, then carried he
around for sixteen years. They hs
= smallpox and measles In common
r Other diseases they had independen
: of each other. AT % Helena died {
$, fever, and Judith lived a few minute
n after. A post.mortem examinatio
d revealed the fac. that they could nc
l. have been separated. Judith, VIII
Z was q very beautiful girl, had a love
:. when she was IS, who tried for a Ion
time to persuade her to marry him 1
spite of the load she was doomed I
/, carry through life. every lassie hs
her laddie," but there is no mentio
0. of q lover fer poor Helena.