Mr. Home’s Additions , &c. 
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Mr. Dent’s observations, in addition to those already in the 
possession of the Society, are the following. 
The child was a male. Its father was a farmer at Mundul 
Gaut, in the province of Bardwan, who told Mr. Dent, that it 
was more than four years old at the time of its death.* 
The mother, who was thirty years of age, had three children, 
all naturally formed ; and her fourth child was the subject of 
the present Paper. Mr. Dent endeavoured to discover whether 
any imaginary cause had been assigned by the parents, for the 
unnatural formation of the child; but the mother declared, 
that no circumstance whatever, of an uncommon nature, had 
occurred : she had no fright, met with no accident, and went 
through the period of her pregnancy exactly in the same 
way as she had done with her other children. 
The body of the child was uncommonly thin, appearing 
emaciated from want of due nourishment. 
The neck of the superior head was about four inches long ; 
and the upper part of it terminated in a hard, round, gristly 
tumour, nearly four inches in diameter. 
The front teeth had cut the gums, in the upper and under 
jaws of both heads. 
When the child cried, the features of the superior head were 
not always affected ; and, when it smiled, the features of the 
superior head did not sympathize in that action. 
In preparing the skull, which unpleasant operation Mr. Dent 
was obliged, from the prejudices of his servants, to superintend, 
he found that the dura mater belonging to each brain, was con- 
tinued across, at the part where the two skulls joined, so that 
* Iii the former Account, the child is said to have been about two years old at that 
time. 
