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Identifier: chicagomedicaljo4018unse (find matches)
Title: Chicago medical journal and examiner
Year: 1880 (1880s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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e and oneventricle; the venous blood passing from the one to the otherwould have been at once driven on into the right aorta; no pul-monary artery exists to receive even a portion of it for transmis- 1880.) Selections. 423 sion to the right pair of lungs, which, for purposes of aeration,wouki accordingly have been useless. No inosculation betweenany large arteries of the two systems exists to have permittedany admixture of arterial blood with the venous current of theright system. This condition would have entailed immediateasphyxia upon the right child, had the monster been deliveredalive; the speedy death of the left child would have followed ;this specimen was not viable. Closely related to this specimen, but illustrating a degree offusion less extensive is the living female double monster knownas the St. Benoit twins. In this being the division extendsthrough the thorax as far as to the abdomen ; so that the thoracicorgans and the upper extremities, as well as the necks and heads,
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FIG. 4.—ROSE-MARIE DOURIN, THE SAINT BENOIT TWINS. are separate and distinct. During the months of December,1878, and January and February, 1879, this being was exhibitedby its parents in this city. Upon the 28th of February it com-pleted its first year. During this time I visited it repeatedly, butmet with much difficulty in any attempt at thorough examinationof it from the unreasonable fears and prejudices of the parents.I was finally successful, however, in obtaining an inspection of 424 Selections. (April, its whole body, and in enabling Mr. Dickinson to make the sketchwhich accompanies this report, and which represents well itsexternal configuration. The names Marie and Rose have been given to the right andleft child respectively. Their patronymic is Drouin. In theCanada Medical and Surgical Journal of October, 187«, I havesince found a description of these beings by Prof. D. C . MacCallum,of Montreal, which, as it corresponds with my own later observa-tion, I repeat : Marie i

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