Janiceps asymmetros.

Caillé, Augustus 1854-1935.

Journal : Archives of pediatrics ; vol. 6.

Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company, 1889.

Description : p. 822, [1 l.] pl. ; ill.: 2 phot. ; 24 cm.

Photographs : 2 photoengravings, front and back views of a monstrum (process unverified).

Subject : Fetus — Terata ; Janiceps asymmetros.

Notes :

• Author caption: By A. Caillé, M.D., New York.
• Pharmaceutical degree, N. Y. College of Pharmacy, 1873.
• M.D., University of Wurzburg , 1877.
• M.D., Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1881.
• Appointed professor of medicine and children's diseases, New York Post-Graduate Medical School, 1888.
• President, American Pediatric Society, 1903-1904.
• Author: Caillé (1906), Differential diagnosis and treatment of disease. New York & London: D. Appleton.
• Reprint: Transactions of the American Pediatric Society. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, vol. 1; p. 70.
• Photo captions: Janiceps Asymmetros [bis].
• Index Medicus: 21100411520 (reprint).

Through the courtesy of Dr. Holcomb, of New York City, I have the opportunity of presenting this monster, which in the text-books is described as a synkephalus. It is formed by the fusion of two bodies. In this specimen it is an asymmetrical synkephalus, having one head, four lower and four upper extremities. The thorax is double; the vertebra; from the pelvis up are double; the umbilicus is single. The viscera have not as yet been examined; but in similar cases, reported in Ahlfeld's book, and pictured on Plate XV., Figs. 1 and 2, the stomach and oesophagus are usually single, the kidneys and genital organs double. The thorax may be single or double, and the thoracic contents in accordance. The cerebrum is usually single; the cerebellum, medulla, pons, and corpora quadrigemina double.—Page 822.