Conjoined twins

We have come a long way from the assumption that a conjoined twin is a “double monster” which was the case of the first documented postmortem examination in the New World “It was performed on July 19,1553, on the island of Espanola, upon conjoined female twins connected at the lower chest, to determine if they had one soul or two (Gwande 192). With all the advancement in imaging, and diagnostics. We would…

Diprosopus, also known as craniofacial duplication, is an extremely rare congenital disorder where only 0.4% of conjoined twins are affected by the disorder. The first cases of this disorder were recorded in Ancient Greece therefore the term “diprosopus” comes from the Greek prefix “di-” which means two and the Greek word, “prosopon” meaning face so diprosopus has the literal meaning of “two-faced” .This disorder is where the newborn has one body, but two noses, two mouths, and two set of eyes.…

Nazi scientist experimenting on innocent Jewish twins between all ages. The scientist experiment on twins in the camps to show their similarities and differences. The scientist set the twins by age and sex and were kept in barracks in and out of the experiments. The experiments consisted of injections of distinctive dyes in their eyes to see if it would alter their natural color and sewing two twins together in an attempt to create conjoined twins. After seeing this, I, being I biochemistry…

If you go to the circus today, you'll see elephants, clowns and cotton candy - not much of a freak show. Circus acts focusing on physical abnormalities might be a thing of the past, but that doesn't make them any less interesting. Below we present the 10 most bizarre circus performers who used their abnormalities to their advantage.Myrtle Corbin was born a dipygus, which means her pelvis and legs were duplicated.Prince Randian, also known as the snake man, was born without limbs.Here we have…

became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who had already began to do research on the twin experiments. That same year, Josef joined the Nazi party. By June 1940, he was drafted into the German army and volunteered for the medical service of the Waffen-SS, an armed wing of the Nazi’s SS organization consisting…

Medical Experiments During the Holocaust Around the time of the Holocaust, physicians and doctors started experimenting on the inmates at concentration camps. These experiments were done without the victim’s consent and sometimes without their knowledge. There were at least 30 different famous experiments done (Seheff, ReduceTheBurden.org). These experiments could result in death, mental distress, or permanent disability. Afterwards, some of the doctors were put on trial. The most well known…

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led the surgery with a seventy member team by his side (“Academy of Achievement” 1). In 2008,President George W. Bush honored Carson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom (“Politics” 1). Carson is the only doctor who successfully separated conjoined twins at the head (Menard 1). Ben also successfully published his New York Times-Seller One Nation in 2014 (“Politics” 1). Carson also successfully wrote the books, America the Beautiful and Gifted Hands (Menard…

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: The movie begins in 1987, where Dr. Ben Carson goes to Germany to visit a couple, who have twins conjoined at the head. Ben knows that chances of saving them both will be a risk, because one baby always dies in situations like that. Ben agrees to do the operation, but he will wait for a time so he can come up with a plan to save them both. While looking into some of his books, the movie flashes back to the year 1961, when Ben is 11 years old and he is in the elementary school as…