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

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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.

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

Author: Harrison Allen

Release date: May 25, 2022 [eBook #68165]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Collins, 1875

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REPORT
OF
AN AUTOPSY ON THE BODIES
OF
CHANG AND ENG BUNKER,
COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE
SIAMESE TWINS
BY
HARRISON ALLEN, M.D.,
PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND ZOÖLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA, SURGEON TO THE PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL, ETC.
PHILADELPHIA:
COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.
1875.

AUTOPSY OF THE SIAMESE TWINS.

Fig. 1.
The twins in the acquired position (E. R., C. L.). From a photograph taken in St. Petersburg, 1870.

NOTE.

The word “Report” used in the title of my paper is to be read as referring to the post-mortem appearances only, and not to the Report of the Commission as appointed by the College. The ante-mortem history prefixed to my paper was written in conjunction with Prof. Pancoast.

H. ALLEN.
REPORT
OF AN
AUTOPSY ON THE BODIES OF CHANG AND ENG
BUNKER, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE
SIAMESE TWINS.
By
HARRISON ALLEN, M.D.,
PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND ZOÖLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF PENNSYLVANIA, SURGEON TO THE PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL, ETC.
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