THE SIAMESE TWINS.
The Philadelphian Medical Times states that the autopsy cf the Siamese Twins was recently conducted, resulting in some interesting disclosures. The commission found that the two livers, which were supposed to be joined) only by blood vessels were really one body, the parenchymatous tissue being continuous between them, so that when they were removed from the bodies and placed on a table, they formed one mass. The -o-called track of portal continuity is therefore the liver tissue. It will be remembered that Chang was "said to be possessed of one more pouch than Eng. \t hen the liver was removed, however, an upper lu patia pouch was found also proceeding from Eng. so that the baud contained four pouches of the peritonical besides the liver tissue. These disclosures show that any attempt during life to separate the twins would, in all probability, have proved fatal.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 628, 1 May 1874, Page 3
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