THE LATEST “SIAMESE TWINS” ON RECORD 
Suzanne and Madeleine Durand, born in Paris on November 28, 1913, were, joined face to face 
by a band of hard flesh about a foot in circumference, near the bottom of the breast bone. 
The two abdominal cavities were in communication through this hollow link, and the 
small intestines of one girl could be drawn through the link into the other girl by the 
mere act of breathing, provided one let out her breath while the other drew in hers. The 
vital organs of the two were complete and separate, however. The twins were separated 
by Dr. Gustave Le Filliatre on March 4, 1914, and at last reports were growing healthily. 
The photograph shows them with their nurse, before they had been cut apart. This is 
said to be the ninth operation of the kind on record. Such twins as these give support 
to the idea that so-called “‘identical’’ twins are the product of a single egg. Photograph 
from Paul Thompson. (Fig. 3.) 
