Show A BOY AND A HALF A Remarkable Case of a Parasitic Para-sitic Growth The Hindoo Taloos Double Body It Is Developed De-veloped Down to the WaistPhysicians Think It Could be Removed Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Sept SThere was a gathering gath-ering of physicians and reporters at the Metropolitan hotel today to see the monstrosity strosity called Laloo the double bodied boy Laloo is a full blooded Hindoo and as brown as a berry He has e singularly handsome face mass of shiny black curls curs the cutest of mustaches and sparkling sparklng eyes Viewed from behind he is as straight as an arrow Laloo is more than one boy he is a boy and a half In the language of the scientific medical men he is an extraordinary extraordin-ary example of parasitic growth Growing out of Laloos well developed chest is another an-other boy which bangs in front of him until un-til its feet nearly touch the floor The other boy has no head but has two arms part of a body and from the waist down is in every respect like a fully developed boy except that its feet are somewhat twisted out of chaps and its legs are limp and shrivelled from not receiving natural exercise exer-cise Neither the arms nor legs possess the power to move though Laloo can place the arms of his half brother about his own neck and can fling him about as ho pleases without injury to himself Laloo however is sensative to any pain that is inflicted on the other boy Laloo has to do all the eating and breathing for both The halfboy has a stomach and something inside of it but it has no lungs and no ribs I has to absorb food and breath from Laloo The physicians physi-cians were very much surprised to find a pulse freely beating i the it but they were not able to determine whether or not it possessed an independent heart Laloo said his constant companion did not cause him the slightest inconvenience and ho demonstrated his agility by clasping it in his arms and running about the room leap ing over furniture and kicking his heels as his dead This the physicians explained the boy could do because the parasite attached at-tached to him is connected with his abnormally ab-normally developed breast bone and causes him no more bother than does a big stomach on a fat man They expressed the opinion however the parasite ought to be chopped away from Laloo and they felt certain a skilled surgeon could perform the operation opera-tion in five minutes without injury to La leo Laloo is eighteen years old was born in India and speaks the English language very well He has two brothers and 0 sister sis-ter They are not in any way deformed |