The phenomenon of the birth of a man with two heads called parasitic janiceps

This extremely rare pathology called parasitic janiceps, which literally means "fused heads." Parasitic janiceps is a consequence of the partial division of the embryo in the womb, and one of the thus formed Siamese twins remains underdeveloped. To date in the medical literature says only six studies of similar cases. In general, they were recorded about ten.

The most famous case of the so-called two-headed Bengali boy, who was born in 1783. The case described by Dr. Everard Home. The boy on the head there was a second, inverted head of the same size. According to Dr Houma, two strongly intertwined brain and skull are fused. When the child was asleep, his eyes remained open top head. When he woke up the first time, all four eyes moved the same, and then his eyes every head began to move independently of each other. Surgery of the time did not allow to carry out the necessary operation. The boy died at the age of four years from the bite of a cobra. His skull is kept in the museum of the London Royal College of surgery.

The recent case of the parasitic janiceps associated with the name Rebecca Martinez from the Dominican Republic, who died at the age of seven weeks after surgery to remove a second head in February 2004, some time after the operation, she was still living, but then her brain was uncontrolled bleeding.

The most recent recorded case of this disease occurred in Egypt. In February 2005, at the age of ten months Manar Maged suffered thirteen successful surgery to remove a second head. This head had neck could smile, blink, but was not able to exist separately.

Source: Stephen Juan, «The odd body - 2»

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