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The two-headed girl : death of the double-headed Girl : duplex child - Rita-Christina. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
3 newspaper cuttings (December 1829), mounted on a sheet of paper, side by side, about an "extraordinary becephalous infant, called Ritta-Christina" or Rita-Christina, brought to Paris. The child died shortly afterwards. A description of the body at the autopsy is given.
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