FREE THE BOY WITH TWO HEADS PDF Andy Mulligan | 400 pages | 01 Oct 2015 | Random House Children's Publishers UK | 9780552573474 | English | London, United Kingdom The Boy With Two Heads by Andy Mulligan He was writing of the Boy of Bengal after observing drawings The Boy with Two Heads collecting and reviewing the accounts of several of his peers. While the boy was remarkable for both his medical condition and perseverance, Home was actually incorrect in his initial assumptions. His remarkable life was very nearly extinguished immediately after his delivery as a terrified midwife tried to destroy the infant by throwing him into a fire. Miraculously, while he was rather badly burned about the eye, ear and upper head, he managed to survive. His parents began to exhibit him in Calcutta, where he attracted a great deal of The Boy with Two Heads and earned the family a fair amount of money. While the large crowds gathered to see the Two-Headed Boy The Boy with Two Heads parents took to covering the lad with a sheet and often kept him hidden — sometimes for hours at a time The Boy with Two Heads often in darkness. As his fame spread across India, so did the caliber of his observers. Several noblemen, civil servants and city officials arranged to showcase the boy in their own homes for both private gatherings and grand galas — treating their guests to up close examinations. When compared to the average child, both heads were of an appropriate size and development. The The Boy with Two Heads head sat atop the main head inverted and simply ended in a neck-like stump. The second head seemed to, at times, function independently from the main head. When the boy cried or smiled the features of the second head did not always match. Yet, when the main head was fed, the second head would produce saliva. Furthermore, if the second head was presented with a breast to suckle — it would attemp to do so. While the main head was well formed the secondary head did posses some irregularities. The eyes and ears were underdeveloped. The tongue was small and the jaw malformed but both were capable of motion. When The Boy with Two Heads Boy slept, the secondary head would often be observed alert and awake — eyes darting about. Despite the attention the Boy of Bengal received, none of it was medical in nature. The Boy, who seemed to suffer no serious ill effects in relation to his condition, died at the age of four from a cobra bite. It was only then, after much unseemly business, that medicine was able to examine the case. The Boy was buried near the Boopnorain River, outside the city of Tumloch but the grave was soon robbed by Mr. Dent, a salt agent for the East India Company. He dissected the putrefied body himself and gave the skull to a Captain Buchanan of the East Indian Company. Buchanan brought the skull to England, where it ended up in the hands of his close friend- Everard Home. When Mr. Dent had dissected the heads he The Boy with Two Heads that the brains were separate and distinct. Each brain was also enveloped in its proper coverings and it appeared as though both brains received the nutrition required to sustain life and thought. The classification of this condition is today known as Craniopagus parasiticus and technically falls under the category of parasitic twins however many of the early naturalists have attempted to classify the Bengal case as a case of conjoined twins due to the signs of independent life given by the second head. She died on February 7,after the hour operation. On February 19,Manar Maged — also born with the same condition- underwent a successful hour surgery in Egypt, but died on March 25, due to repeated infection. He discovered human echolocation at the age of seven and now uses it to accomplish such feats as running, rollerblading, foosball and playing video games. Human echolocation involves creating an environmental image by…. Hand drawings of the Boy of Bengal by Mr. Smith 3. CandyGuy Visit our Forums Today! For your further edification. Polycephaly - Wikipedia Polycephaly is The Boy with Two Heads condition of having more than one head. A polycephalic organism may be thought of as one being with a supernumerary body partThe Boy with Two Heads as two or more beings with a shared body. Two-headed animals called bicephalic or dicephalic and three-headed tricephalic animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world, and form by the same process as conjoined twins from monozygotic twin embryos. In humans, there are two forms of twinning that can lead to two heads being supported by a single torso. In dicephalus parapagus dipusthe two heads are side by side. In craniopagus parasiticusthe two heads are joined directly to each other, but only one head has a functional torso. Survival to adulthood is rare, but does occur in some forms of dicephalus parapagus dipus. There are many occurrences of multi-headed animals in mythology. In heraldry and vexillologythe double-headed eagle is a common symbol, though no The Boy with Two Heads animal is known to have ever existed. In humans, as in other animals, partial twinning can result in formation of two heads supported by a single torso. Two ways this can happen are dicephalus parapagus, where there The Boy with Two Heads two heads side The Boy with Two Heads side, and craniopagus parasiticuswhere the heads are joined directly. In dicephalus parapagus dipus, the two heads are side by side, on a torso with two legs, with varying levels of twinning of organs and structures within the torso. The shared body may have four arms The Boy with Two Heads, or three arms, or two arms The Boy with Two Heads. There are Greek-based medical terms for the variations, e. Both heads may contain a fully formed brain, or one may be anencephalic. Survival to adulthood does however occasionally occur in cases where the twins are born with three to four arms. Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci born between andwere dicephalus parapagus dipus twins who survived to adulthood. Each had his own pair of arms. They learned to speak several languages, but never learned to walk. Abigail and Brittany Henselborn inare another instance of dicephalus parapagus dipus twins who grew up. They were born with two functional arms, plus a vestigial third arm, which was surgically removed. Each twin has her own complete head, heart and spine, and controls one arm and one leg. They developed good motor skillsand completed courses at school and university. Craniopagus parasiticus is an extremely rare condition in which the two heads are joined directly together, and one twin known as the autosite has a functioning torso, while the other known as the parasite has only a vestigial torso. The parasite is supported by blood supplied from the autosite head. This threatens the life of the The Boy with Two Heads by placing an additional burden on the autosite's vital organs. Operations The Boy with Two Heads separate the two heads have been performed in the hope of saving the autosite. Polycephalic animals often make local news headlines when found. The most commonly observed two-headed animals are turtles and snakes. Ina two-headed The Boy with Two Heads was reported in BostonMassachusetts. Scientists have published in modern journals about dissecting such animals since at least the s. Polycephalic animals, due to their rarity, are a subject of novelty. Two-headed farm animals sometimes travel with animal side shows to county fairs. Most notably, The Venice Beach Freakshow supposedly houses the largest collection of two-headed specimens in The Boy with Two Heads world, including over 20 two-headed animals that are alive. Many museums of natural history contain preserved two-headed animals. A very well preserved 2-headed lamb is on display in Llanidloes museum in Wales. In cases where multiple heads are fully developed and non-parasitic, they share control of the organs and limbs, though the specific structure of the connections varies. Animals often move in a disoriented and dizzy fashion, with the brains "arguing" with each other; some animals simply zig-zag without getting anywhere. Thus, polycephalic animals survive poorly in the wild compared to normal monocephalic animals. Most two-headed snakes only live for a few months, though some have been reported to live a full life and even reproduced, with the offspring born normal. A two-headed black rat snake with separate throats and stomachs survived for 20 years. A two-headed albino rat snake named "We" survived in captivity for 8 years. It is difficult to draw the line between what is considered "one animal with two heads" or "two animals that share a body". Abigail and Brittany Hensel were The Boy with Two Heads two distinct names at birth. They identify The Boy with Two Heads two people, and are recognised as two people legally and socially. What if the twins possess different tastes? Is it a crime if one objects to romantic advances? If one twin commits suicide, how can it be determined to not be murder? What if one twin is asleep and the other is awake? Is it academic dishonesty if one tells the other answers to a test? With other animals, polycephaly is usually described as "one animal with two heads". Where twinning of the head itself is only partial, it can result in the condition known as diprosopus —one head with two faces.