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,00 Afr. Home’s Account of 
The attention of the curious was naturally attra&ed by fo 
uncommon a fpecies of deformity; and Mr. Stark, who re- 
iided in Bengal during this period, paid particular attention to 
the appearances of the different parts of the double head, and 
endeavoured to afcertain the mode in which the two ikulls 
were united, as well as to difcover the fympathies which 
exifted between the two brains. Upon his return to 
England, finding that I was in poffeliion of the fkull, 
and propofed drawing up an account ci tiie child, he very 
obligingly favoured me with the following particulars, 
and has likewile allowed me to have a fketcn taken 
from a very exa£t painting, made under his own mfpeftion 
from the child while alive, by Mr. Smith, a portrait painter 
then in India. From this drawing, which is annexed, and 
■f^vo others, representing theheans in the natural date , and the 
fkulls, when all the other parts were removed, a much more 
accurate idea will be given or the cmiu s appearance than can 
be conveyed by any defcription. 
At the time Mr. Stark faw the child, it muft have been 
nearly two years old*, as it was Some months before its death, 
which I have every reafon to believe happened in the year 1 785. 
At this period the appearances differed in many refpe&s from 
thofe taken .notice of when only fix months old. 
The burnt ear had fo much recovered itfelf as only to have 
loft about one fourth part of the loofe pendulous flap. The 
openings leading from the external ear appeared as diftinft as 
in thofe of the other head. The fkin furrounding the injured eye, 
which was on the fame fide with the mutilated ear, was in a 
* The dentes molares, or double teeth, which ufually appear at twenty months 
or two years of age, were through the gum $ and there was no reafon to expert 
them very early in this child* 
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