"Another case of parasitic fœtus is described by Dr. E. Bugnion in the Revue Medicale de la Suissee Romande for June, 1889. The patient, whose photogravure adorns the paper, is a well-developed young woman with regular features. She was born in 1869. In front of the pubes is attached a rudimentary pelvis bearing two long, deformed, and partly atrophied lower extremities. Rudimentary nipples were found in the integument of the autosite's groin on each side of the attachment of the pedicle of the parasite. There was no signs of any extgernal genitals on the parasite. The vulvar orifice of the autosite is anteriorly encroached upon by the parasite, and is pushed backwards so that the perineum is reduced to a thin septum. The autosite, Louise L., of Reims, walks well; the monstrosity shows but little [through the outline of her clothing] . She married three months before her fifteenth birthday. In March, 1885, her first, and in December, 1888, her second child was born. She was suckling the latter when Dr. Bugnion examined her. He described her as a dipygus parasiticus, or more strictly as a pubimèle or pygomèle pubien. She is known as the dame à quatre jambes, and has been on show for some time, after the fashion of most monsters."
- British Med. Journal, July 20 (1889) |
