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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1729 Excerpt: ...Woman at unawares, and wantonly striking their Heads together feemeth the less rare to us, who have seen here, . in London, within these few Tears, two Girls brought out of Germany miserably complicate or conjoined about the Loyns and Buttocht with one common Anus and Pudendum. Anf, The Question is not, whether there were ever any such Children, as Sebastian Munster does mentionj but how they came to be so. Ft tnus is of Opinion, that the Conjunction was a Casualty, and not the Effect of'Imagination, . Cast et non virtute Imaginationis. K That That ridiculous Circumstance of some Body coming behind the Women, and striking their Heads, seems to have been added to the original Story. For Jmbrose Varey, who speaks of the Girls, takes no Notice of it, and attributes that Deformity to a quite disferent Cause than Imagination. And why should the Foreheads of the Infants, upon the Account of that Stroak, adhere to one another more firmly than that of their Mother to her Neighbour's? 2. As for the two young Girls, which were in London, about Twenty-one Years ago, I don't know, upon what Account Dr. Turner brings them upon the Stage, since the Mother's Imagination was never alledged by their Keepers, as the Cause of the Conjunction. But since, I am upon that Subject, I hope the Reader will forgive she this small Digression, as Part of their History. These Girls, Helena and 'Judith, were born in 1701, at Szony, near Comora in Hungary, and made their Appearance in London, in 1708. They were Handsome and Witty, and could speak perfectly three Languages, viz. Sclavonian, French, and German: . Besides the Englijb Tongue they were a learning, in June, 1708. '.' Helena was much stronger than Judith, and able to carry her easily upon her Back, in running very last in the Room;...

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