Report of the Autopsy of the Siamese Twins: Together With Other Interesting Information Concerning Their Life (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Report of the Autopsy of the Siamese Twins: Together With Other Interesting Information Concerning Their Life The twins often quarrelled and of course, under the circumstances, their quarrels were bitterf They sometimes came to blows, and on one occasion came under the jurisdiction of the courts. After one of these difficulties Chang and Eng applied to Dr. Hol lingsworth to separate them, stating that they could not live longer together. Eng affirmed that Chang was so bad' that he could live no longer with him and Chang stated that he was satisfied tobe sepa rated, only asking that he be given an equal chance with his brother, and that the band be cut exactly in the middle. But as Dr. Hollingsworth advised very decidedly against this, and declined to inter fere, cooler counsels prevailed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.