| Show SEPARATION OF THE HIND 00 TWINS INTERESTS DOCTORS Salt Lake Surgeons Recall Recall Recall Re Re- call Other Cases Cases' of Attempts to Release Twins Who Are Abnormally Abnormally Abnormally Abnor Abnor- mally Joined by Nature Salt Lake surgeons are greatly Interested interested interested Inter inter- ested in the operation performed in Paris last week upon the twins I and The sisters who were united In Insa a manner similar to the famous Siamese twins were separated with a Knife by Dr Doyon a noted French sur surgeon eon Several local local physicians were attend attend- attendIng Ing medical colleges oll in Philadelphia p when science first began the study of such freaks of nature at atthe the autopsy performed by the leading phy physicians physicians and surgeons of ot the time upon the Siamese Siamese- twins Said a w well known ell know n Salt Lake Lak surgeon I Ir toda today I r I I attended the College of ns In Philadelphia A where here the autopsy was performed upon unon the Siamese twins Plaster casts of oC the twins t in various arious positions are still among the thern colleges college s most treasured exhibits along with a curious double chair in which they used to sit The Siamese Twins The Siamese twins Eng and Chang Chan ng were vere born in Slam Siam in May 1811 The They were exhibited all over the world Eng drank heavily and Chang although he never touched Intoxicating liquors became became be be- came pame Into Intoxicated l whenever his brother broth imbibed too tob freely freety Both were married Their families s lived in separate houses Eng would spend three days i th Chang i and then Chang would go to the domicile domi domi- cUe cile of Eng for a Each reared a large family pt of In In J January nu Ily 1874 while going from Chang's s house to his own Eng contracted contracted contracted con con- pneumonia and died His brother broth broth- er survived him only half an hour A committee from the College of Physicians clans consisting of ot Drs Dis Joseph Pancoast Pancoast Pan- Pan coast Harrison Allen and T T. H H. Andrews Andrews An drews went to their home in North Carolina Carolina Carolina Car Car- olina to request the privilege of performing performing performing per per- forming an autopsy Autopsy Performed This was accorded under certain re restrictions restrictions restrictions re- re and the body was sent to the College of Physicians in February 1874 There in the presence of many famous physicians and surgeons the autopsy was performed The report was written by Dr Allen assisted by Dr Andrews and Dr J. J J J. William White It was as carefully carefully care care- fully Cully edited and revised by representatives tives of their families before publication tio tion Opinion at that time was divided upon upon upon up up- on the question of ot whether they could have lave been successfully separated LeadIng Leading Lead- Lead Ing ng surgeons believed the operation w would be fatal and for that reason none none was performed Dr Di La Barre J. J J J. Leamy instructor of obstetrics in the Medico Medico l college and assistant gynecologist at the Samaritan hospital 1 Philadelphia con- con conducted dueled ducted a thorough examination of Laloo La- La loo 00 in that city several years years ago to determine de- de determine determine de de- termine whether an operation to separate separate separate sepa sepa- rate Laloo from his twin sister Lala w was as feasible the doctor continued Laloo would not submit to an operation opera opera- tion unless he was by Dr Leamy Leamy Lea Lea- my that he would recover The assurance assurance assurance assur assur- ance his physician refused to give Other Cases Cited Another Salt Lake take doctor gave gave- several several sev sev- several eral instances of ot attempts to separate twins abnormally joined Two sisters Ilsters born in Italy In 1700 were killed at the age of 4 months by the attempt of a surgeon to separate them The Swiss sisters Marie l and Adele were operated upon when In a feeble condition Adele died In six hours and Marie succumbed to peritonitis the next dayA day A similar case was reported in m Germany Gel Gei- many in 1866 1066 The operation in J this case was performed without a accident One ly W the children already ill III dl ed d on the third tf day The other survived |
