Note 358 — Of Monsters and Hermaphrodites, legally considered.

The most remarkable case of this kind upon record is that related by Buffon (Hist. Naturells, Supplement, tom. ii, p. 410), of a double infant, joined at the loins and having a common anus, but being in all other respects, morally as well as physically, separate beings. They were born at Tzoni, in Hungary, on the 16th of October 1701, and died in a convent at St. Petersburg, on the 23d of February 1723. Their names were Hélène and Judith; the one having been attacked with fever, became lethargic and died, upon which the other was seized with convulsions and survived her unhappy partner not more than three minutes.