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eyes were attentive to objects, and 
its mouth fucked the breaft vigo- 
roufly. Its body was emaciated. 
The parents of the child were 
poor, and carried it about the ftreets 
of Calcutta as a curiofity to be feen 
for money; and to prevent its be- 
ing expofed to the populuce, they 
kept it conftantly covered up, which 
was confidered as the caufe of its 
being emaciated and unhealthy. 
The attention of the curious was 
naturally attraéted by fo uncommon | 
a fpecies of deformity; and Mr. 
Stark, who refided in Bengal during 
this period, paid particular atten- 
tion to the appearances of the dif- 
ferent parts of the double head, and 
endeavoured to afcertain the mode 
in which the two fkulls were united, 
as well as to difcover the fympa- 
thies which exifted between the two 
brains. Upon his return to Eng- 
land, finding that I was in poffef- 
fion of the fkull, and propofed draw- 
ing up an account of the child, he 
very obligingly favoured me with 
the following particulars; and has 
likewife allowed me to have a 
fketch taken from a very exact 
paintiug, made under his own in- 
{pection from the child while alive, 
by Mr. Smith, a portrait-painter 
then in India. 
At the time Mr. Stark faw the 
child, it muft have been nearly two 
years old, as it was fome months 
before its death, which I have every 
reafon to believe happened in the 
year 1785. At this ‘period the ap- 
pearances differed in many refpects 
from thofe taken notice of when 
‘only fix months old, 
The burnt ear had fo much re- 
covered jtfelf as only to have loft 
about one fourth part of the loofe 
pendulous flap. The openings lead- 
jag from the external ear appeared 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
as diftin& as in thofe ef the other 
head. The fkin furrounding the 
injured eye, which was on the fame 
fide with the mutilated ear, was ina 
flight degree affetted, and the ex- 
ternal canthus much contracted, but 
the eye itfelf was perfect. 
The eyelids of the fuperior head 
were never completely fhut, remain- 
ing a little open, even when the 
child was afleep, and the eyeballs 
moved at random. When the child 
was roufed, the eyes of both heads 
moved at the fame time; but thote 
of the fuperior head did not appear 
to be dire&ted to the fame object, 
but wandered in different. direc- 
tions. The tears flowed from the 
eyes of the fuperior head almoft 
conftantly, but never from the eyes 
of the other, except when crying, 
The termination of the upper 
neck was very irregular, a. good 
deal refembling the cicatrix of an 
old fore. 
The fuperior head feemed to fym- 
pathife with the child in moft of 
its natural actions. When the child 
cried, the features of this head were 
affefted in a fimilar manner, and 
the tears flowed plentifully. When 
it fucked the mother, fatisfaétion 
was exprefied by the mouth of the 
fuperior head, and the faliva flowed 
more copioufly than at any other 
time; for it always flowed a little 
from it. When the child fmiled, 
the features of the fuperior head 
fympathifed in that aétion. When 
the fkm of the fuperior head was 
pinched, the child feemed to feel 
little or no pain, at leaft not in the 
fame proportion as was felt from a 
fimilar violence being committed on 
its own head or body. ~ 
When the child was about two 
years old, and in perfeé health, the 
mother went out to fetch fome wa- 
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