A CASE OF HUMAN SYNOPHTHALMIA'! 
By SIxTo DE LOS ANGELES 
Professor and Chief of Department 
and 
ANASTACIA VILLEGAS 
Assistant 
TWO PLATES 
The specimen was donated to the College of Medicine and 
Surgery through the department of legal medicine on May 29, 
1919, by the pharmacist Mr. Gallardo, and the district health 
officer Dr. J. Guidote of Tacloban, Leyte. The foetus was born 
dead on May 26, 1919, in the municipality of Tacloban, Barrio 
of San Jose. According to the report of Doctor Guidote, it was 
the sixth child of a normal woman, 25 years of age, married 
to a man 35 years old, a farmer by occupation and likewise of 
normal and healthy constitution. The five ‘previous children 
were also normal. 
The case is a male synophthalmia bilentica, measuring 350 
millimeters in length, and 233 millimeters in chest circumference. 
The total leg length is 180 millimeters; the foot, 60; the arm, 
180; and the hand, 50. The total cephalic circumference is 210 
millimeters (anterior 130, and posterior 180); height of fore- 
head, 5.3 millimeters; facial length, 50; facial width, 57.5; and 
from the inferior palpebral margin to a place over the mental 
point it measures 22.8. The pinna measures 25 millimeters. 
The weight was not taken because when the specimen was re- 
ceived in the department it was without viscera. 
Eyelids are not adherent but rather widely gaping; mem- 
brane pupilares absent; nails perfectly developed but not reach- 
ing to the tips of the fingers; head well covered with hair; 
testicles partly descended into the scrotum; body perfectly formed 
but underdeveloped, and covered with abundant lanugo. The 
size of the creature corresponds to 2 seven-month intra-uterine 
*From the department of legal medicine, medical economics, and ethics, 
College of Medicine and Surgery, University of the Philippines. Read 
before the Manila Medical Society, October 6, 1919. 
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