An account of a case of partial double monstrosity : (ischiopage symelien of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, heteradelphia of Vrolik) / by William Acton.

  • Acton, William, 1813-1875.
Date:
[1846]
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Credit: An account of a case of partial double monstrosity : (ischiopage symelien of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, heteradelphia of Vrolik) / by William Acton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    AN ACCOUNT OF A CASE OF PARTIAL DOUBLE MONSTROSITY. (ISCHIOPAGE SYMELIEN OE GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, HETERAHELPHIA OF YROLIK.) By WILLIAM ACTON, Esq., SURGEON TO THE ISLINGTON DISPENSARY. Received March 9th—Read March 10th, 1846. The subject of the present monstrosity is a healthy male child, named John Baptist Dos Santos, a native of Portugal, 6 months old, and whose singular conformation the Fellows have this evening had an opportunity of personally exa- mining. The father and mother are both healthy, of short stature, and dark complexion : no peculiarity of any kind has been observed in any of their family. The mother states she has had two other children, the eldest, a fine girl, now three years of age; the second, a boy, perfectly well formed, who died when 17 months old. She remarked nothing unusual during her pregnancy; the child was born at the full time, and the labour was an easy one. As the child pre- sented peculiarities which her medical attendant believed to be unique, the parents determined to come to London to exhibit the infant, and I was requested to see the child, which is characterised in a printed paper as “ The Human Tripod, or three-legged child, and first Bipenis ever seen or heard of.”