THE SIAMESE TWINS. THEIR DEATH.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1159, 17 March 1874, Page 2

THE SIAMESE TWINS. THEIR DEATH.

The death of the Siamese twins in Mount Any, near Salisbury, North Carolina, on the 17th January, ended one of the most remarkable of natural phenomena. They came to this country in 1829, when they were only eighteen years old, having previously been shown in Europe. They were born on the coast of Siam, and their parents lived by fishing. None of their fifteen brothers and sisters were deformed, although many of them were twins. A despatch from Mount Airy, NO. published in New York on the 25th] gives an interesting conversation between a correspondent and Dr. Hollingsworth, who was the first phy. sician to arrive at the residence of tho Siamese Twins after their death. Dr. Hollingsworth does not believe Eng's death was caused through any vital connection or artery passiii" through tho ligament connecting tho twins. He had attended them frecpiently ■when one had been sick and the other in good health. He often noticed the two beats of tho twins' pulses differing in time. Eng's death was undoubtedly due to shock and terror, inspired by his union with Chang's dead body. An attempt to sever the ligament after Chang's death, would only have hastened the death of Eng, by "increasing his terror. The friends of the twins maintain that an artery was contained in the ligament, and that after Chang's death the flood from Eng's body ilowcd into Chang, but that there was no response of tho artery, and that Eng died from cxhaustation and loss of blood. Up to the time of Eng's death the ligament was quite warm to a point where it entered Chang's body. The ligament was four inches wide and as thick as a man's wrist, and cxtondctl from the abdomen of ono to that of the other, ami the naval of the twins was in its centre. The bodies have been temporarily interred.