REMARKABLE TWINS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1038, 28 January 1880, Page 2

REMARKABLE TWINS.

There is at present in Bombay a living object that may rightly be classed among the most curious phenomena of nature. At a house in Mazagen may be seen a pair of female twins, separate in every respect but from the breast bone to the lower part of the abdomen, which is closely joined. The upper breastbone of each infant is linked into the other, the outer skin covering both trunks. The twins are j >iued front to front; shoulders, arms, lower limbs, and feet perfectly formed, and development healthy, while the heads are well shaped and the faces really pretty, with beautiful eyes, large aud bright. The twins are six months and twenty days old, are in perfect health, and measure twenty inches iu height, one appearing—but in a very trifling degree—larger than the other. Both have vigorous appetites and take kindly to the feeding bottle, are extremely lively, and appeared good tempered. The pulses beat in unison, they generally fall asleep or keep awake together, and their actions are usually simultaneous, though sometimes one would cry while the other was quietly drawing at the mouthpiece of its bottle. The strangely united pair were born in Dapooli, in the Rutnagnerry NSfollectorate, the father being a Mohammedan and a seafaring man, while the mother has besides a pretty little daughter about ten. According to the former’s account, he called in a native doctor at Rntnaghkorp, whose opinion was that there was a connection inter-

toally between the abdomens, so that whatever sustenance the one' took, a portion passed to the other. However that may be,, the infants feed separately, each having a bottle to itself, and draw vigorously at their nourishment. This same doctor also declared that it would be impossible to separate them without extinguishing life. The twins have up to this time never been ill, and to every appearance are likely to grow up,— Times of India.