A Freak of Nature.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 14 January 1892, Page 3

A Freak of Nature.

Freaks of nature, as they are called, may be deeply interesting to scientific men, but they often entail for the victims of them a wretched existence. At the present moment we learn Mr Laloo, a native of Hindostan, is in New York, with the object of consulting the most eminent surgeons on his singularly hard case. He is described as a handsome, wellproportioned yonng man, whose life is a burden to him owing to the following circumstances : — He was born a twin, but unfortunately his twin sister had grown from his breast bone - or, as the treak is described, " she had attached herself to that part of his anatomy, and seemed to have plunged head first into her brother's body, for dangling from his body was only a baby girl's body and four limbs." The " isthmus of neck " is described as " poking right into his brother's frame," and there evidently ended the headless sister, whose arms were tightly clasped round her brother's neck* For twenty years Mr Laloo has lived with his decapitated sister, also a living human body nearly half his size, fed by his mouth, living upon his tissues, and still capable of 11 swinging her arms up and putting them round his neck as of old." He is anxious deeply anxious, it is said —to get rid of this incubus, and has gone to New York in the hope of finding a skilful surgeon to help him in his object. Befort anything is attempted, a consensus of opinion on the feasibility of such an operation will be taken.

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