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Report of an autopsy on the bodies of Chang and Eng Bunker, commonly known as the Siamese twins

Chapter 14: Footnotes
By Harrison Allen
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The document begins with an ante-mortem history of the conjoined brothers, describing their separate households, marriages, offspring, and progressive ill health including one brother’s hemiplegia followed by an acute respiratory episode and sequential deaths. It then presents a careful post-mortem examination performed some weeks after death, giving body measurements and external findings such as variable congestion and discoloration, detailed anatomy of the abdominal commissure connecting the two, and systematic observations of thoracic and abdominal organs, including differences between the two bodies and focused descriptions of the spleen and related structures.

Footnotes

1. For this statement see an article in Lippincott’s Magazine, March, 1874.

2. The folds of peritoneum containing remains of the hypogastric arteries will be called throughout by the name of the umbilical ligaments.

3. The presence of a great amount of adipose tissue throughout, in Eng, was very noticeable as contrasted with the emaciated appearance of the tissues in Chang.

4. Before the septum was known to exist, the band was opened from behind in the presence of the Fellows of the College (Feb. 18th, 1874). The exact relations of the septum could not at that time be determined. Figs. 8, 9, and 10 are taken from studies of the parts made the day after the meeting.

5. I desire to return thanks to Dr. T. H. Andrews and Dr. J. W. White, Jr., for important assistance rendered in preparing the notes of the autopsy.

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