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...Cecil Hartley, 27, wife of a laborer in Washington, Ind. (pop. 10,987), had borne four normal girls (three still living). Then, during her fifth pregnancy, something went wrong. An embryo began to divide into what should have become identical twins, but the separation was never completed. When Margaret Hartley's time came, the doctors could not complete a normal delivery. Since they could detect heartbeats, it was their duty to give the fetus every chance of entering the world alive. So Dr. Vance Chattin did a Caesarean section...
...offspring proved to be what medical archivists call a monster, a boy (or boys) with two heads, four arms, a fused trunk and two legs. Without letting Mrs. Hartley see the baby, Dr. Chattin got it breathing. Then he rushed it to the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital in Indianapolis. There, this week, the baby astonished medical men by continuing to live. And the Chicago Daily News shocked its readers (especially mothers-to-be) by printing its picture...
...fatally injured during delivery. And even when, rarely, they are born alive, the life hangs by a thread, and most doctors will not take heroic measures to preserve such a life when success can only prolong misery. Soviet physicians report that a double baby girl, similar to the Hartley case, survived for 13 months (in 1937-38); few survive even as long as this. By coincidence, a laborer's wife in Brazil's state of Minas Gerais bore a double girl child, baptized Ana Maria, a few days after Mrs. Hartley's operation...
...Cecil Hartley gave his offspring two names, Daniel Kaye for the partner on the right, and Donald Ray for the one on the left. Clergymen in Indianapolis told reporters that with two brains and two hearts it must have two personalities and therefore should have double baptism. Meanwhile, doctors at Riley Hospital concentrated on keeping it alive, using oxygen because the right-hand member has poor circulation. This side also has a harelip and a poorer appetite. Surgery, such as separated the Brodie twins, appears impossible because there is only one set of organs below the chest...
...Taft-Hartley Law: No change will be proposed in the broad principle of the law, but the President will ask for changes in details...