1 34< Mr Livingstone mi a Chinese Lusus Nature. 
vered with skin. The hips of the model are too prominent. 
The manner in which the thighs appear is quite happy ; but 
the feet, particularly die left, are not sufficiently clubbed. In 
the original, generally the feet and toes are less perfect than in 
the model. The toes adhere, and one or two are wanting. 
The attachment of the neck of the parasite to the chest of the 
principal, admits of a semirotatory motion. The natural posi- 
tion of the bellies is towards each other ; but A-ke can turn his 
brother so far round that he can bring either side towards his 
own belly. He also shews that his brother’s arms can be moved 
freely. The thighs and legs remain stiffly bent, as represented 
in the model : the thigh being anehylosed with the ossa inno- 
mmata above, and the tibia below. In sciagraphia, genitalia 
nimis perfecta apparent ; quoniam in archetypo, testium vesti- 
gium nullum, scrotique exiguum tantum, videndum sit. At 
penis proportionaliter crassus est ; et prseputium glandem semi- 
velat. Tentigo interdum observatur ; quo tempore fluidum 
viscidum ex urethra stillat, quapropter Sinenses semen copiose 
secerni credunt. Henes officia rite perficiunt; anus deest. 
A-ke is now about four feet ten inches high, of a feeble frame 
and sickly appearance ; but excepting the encumbrance above 
described, he is in all respects perfectly formed. He appears to 
be sufficiently conversible and intelligent, and says that he has 
the same feeling of pain, if any part of his brother’s body is 
hurt, as if' it was the same part of his own body : even the 
slightest touch which would be perceptible, if applied to his own 
person, is equally perceptible if applied to his brother. This 
statement was most satisfactorily confirmed by an ingenious me- 
dical gentleman, who, observing A-ke’s attention to be fully em- 
ployed, and his head turned away in a contrary direction, pinched 
quickly the hip of the parasite ; A-ke instantly struck the same 
part of his own person, just as if that had been the pinched 
place. 
Formerly he had reason to imagine^ from certain obscure mo- 
tions which he perceived within his brother, when he was him- 
self in pain, that all their feelings were reciprocal ; but for some 
time past he has not been sensible of this, nisi micturus sit. 
Frater ejus nunquam eodem tempore, sen urgente natura, sen 
