VOL. LXXX.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 663 



The parents of the child were poor, and carried it about the streets of Calcutta 

 as a curiosity to be seen for money ; and to prevent its being exposed to the po- 

 pulace, they kept it constantly covered up, which was considered as the cause of 

 its being emaciated and unhealthy. The attention of the curious was naturally 

 attracted by so uncommon a species of deformity ; and Mr. Stark, who resided 

 in Bengal during this period, paid particular attention to the appearances of the 

 different parts of the double head, and endeavoured to ascertain the mode in 

 which the 2 skulls were united, as well as to discover the sympathies which 

 existed between the 2 brains. On his return to England, finding that Mr. H. 

 was in possession of the skull, and proposed drawing up an account of the child, 

 he favoured him with the following particulars, and likewise allowed him to 

 have a sketch taken from a very exact painting, made under his own inspection 

 from the child while alive, by Mr. Smith, a portrait painter then in India. From 

 this drawing, which is annexed, and 2 others, representing the heads in the na- 

 tural state ; and the skulls, when all the other parts were removed, a much more 

 accurate idea will be given of the child's appearance than can be conveyed by any 

 description. 



At the time Mr. Stark saw the child, it must have been nearly 2 years old,* 

 as it was some months before its death, which it appears happened in the year 

 1785. At this period the appearances differed in many respects from those taken 

 notice of when only 6 months old. The burnt ear had so much recovered itself 

 as only to have lost about 4- part of the loose pendulous flap. The openings 

 leading from the external ear appeared as distinct as in those of the other head. 

 The skin surrounding the injured eye, which was on the same side with the muti- 

 lated ear, was in a slight degree affected, and the external canthus much con- 

 tracted, but the eye itself was perfect. The eyelids of the superior head were 

 never completely shut, remaining a little open, even when the child was asleep, 

 and the eyeballs moved at random. When the child was roused, the eyes of 

 both heads moved at the same time ; but those of the superior head did not ap- 

 pear to be directed to the same object, but wandered in different directions. The 

 tears flowed from the eyes of the superior head almost constantly, but never from 

 the eyes of the other, except when crying. The termination of the upper neck 

 was very irregular, a good deal resembling the cicatrix of an old sore. The 

 superior head seemed to sympathise with the child in most of its natural actions. 

 When the child cried, the features of this head were affected in a similar manner, 

 and the tears flowed plentifully. When it sucked the mother, satisfaction was 

 expressed by the mouth of the superior head, and the saliva flowed more copious- 

 ly than at any other time ; for it always flowed a little from it. When the child 



• The dentes molares, or double teeth, which usually appear at 20 months or 2 years of age, were 

 through the gum ; and there was no reason to expect them very early in this child. — Orig. 

 VOL. XVI. 4 Q 



