The first known science of conjoined twins lived separate lives in separate houses

It is hard to imagine, but Chang and Eng had their own house and semi



The brothers Chang and Eng Bunker were born in 1811 fused in the chest. The twins were born in Siam, their father was Chinese and his mother - Malaika. Medicine the XIX-th century, yet did not know how to carry out the operation to separate Siamese twins, so the boys had to come to terms with the fact that all their lives they will be inseparable.

However, even this does not interfere with the physiological feature of Chang and Ang be completely independent of each other. In 1829, the year Bankers have signed a contract to tour with the circus British businessman Robert Hunter. After his graduation brothers settled in the United States, where each family got himself: at Chang and his wife had ten children, and Ng and his wife could boast more than one offspring, with his two brothers paid close enough attention to the amount. How do they do it? The secret of the brothers was that three days they lived in one house and three days in another - so they were able to keep the family together, and no one felt uschemlёnnym.





Brothers Bankers lived for 63 years and when Chang fell ill with pneumonia, and one night he died, Ang urgently summoned the surgeon to perform the surgery division, but he was able to get to him only three hours later when it was too late - Ang was also dead. Thus, it was not to be divided even after the death of one of the brothers. We have about 1500 Bunker descendants, many of which - non-conjoined twins.

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