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Show SIAMESE TWINS AUTOPSY- New York, 13. A Philadelphia dispatch of yestenlay says: hi the Siamese Twins autopsy, this day was taken up in photographing the corpses cor-pses in a number of positions, and lrom different points of view, so as to put on permanent record their external exter-nal appearances. The first cut looming to wan Is the autopsy, which beings formally to-day, was made iu the abdomen of Eng. A hand was passed in at the opening, and fingers were carried nearly to the centre of tho fleshy part of the union. This shows that the lining membrane of the general abdominal cavity lines the opening into this fleshy band. Casts have been taken with highly successful success-ful results. A well known artist.con-versant artist.con-versant with the subject from practice in army hospitals, has been engaged to make drawings of the internal parts as they are developed. |