| Description Of Item | Cutting contains two distinct reports on each set of conjoined twins. The first covers Chang and Eng Bunker, who were due to arrive in Paris from the United States, and gives a physical description of the twins, as well as a brief biography and an account of their temperament. The second refers to Rita and Christina Parodi [Referred to as simply Ritta-Christina], with a supposition by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire that the girls had only one heart between them.
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