History and medical description of the two-headed girl : sold by her agents for her special benefit, at 25 cents / told in "her own particular way" by "one of them."

Date:
1869
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Credit: History and medical description of the two-headed girl : sold by her agents for her special benefit, at 25 cents / told in "her own particular way" by "one of them.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    sometliino^ else. But the soinetliins; else soon gave iininistakable evidences that' it could, viva voce, intimate a desire for maternal comforts, just as well as the best developed young African on the premises. So our mother and the rest of the family came to the conclusion that a child was born. Our parents w^ere named Jacob and Menemia, and at the time of our birth were part of the family ol a Mr. McCoy. Shortly afterwards we and our parents changed owners, and were taken to Anson County, North Carolina. There we became separated from our parents, and after a few more transfers in the way of ownership, became the property of Mr. Jos. P. Smith, who gave for us, two strange lumps of humanity, the sum of $30,000. He, witli a goodness of heart, wdiich in after life developed itself in more ways than one towards us, ascertained where our parents w^ere, went to their owners, purchased them, and all our little brothers and sisters, thus bringing a long separated family together, and the making of more than one heart rejoice in gladness. When w^e were infants, not much more than fifteen months old, Mr. Smith, yielding to the advice of a number of his friends and well wishers, made arrange-