{"id":4414,"date":"2014-08-07T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2014-08-07T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:45:41","slug":"conjoined-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2014\/08\/07\/conjoined-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjoined twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"KIC_Image_0006\"<\/a>\u00a0 Johann Conrad Brunner was a Swiss anatomist that is best known for his work with the pancreas and duodenum. \u00a0This fold out plate\u00a0displays both anatomical and skeletal conjoined twin fetuses, which is part of Brunner’s\u00a0medical dissertation Foetum monstrosum et <\/em><\/a>bicipitem<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>from the\u00a0University of Strasbourg published in 1692. \u00a0The thesis is bound together with about fifteen other titles almost all of which deal with\u00a0complications with childbirth.<\/p>\n

\"KIC_Image_0003\"<\/a>\u00a0 One of the earliest depictions\u00a0of conjoined twins appear on ceramics in the Moche culture in Peru. \u00a0The Nuremburg Chronicle,<\/a>\u00a0also known as the Liber Chronicarum<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>is a well-known early printed book, published in 1493 which tells of the human history of the world\u00a0as related in the Bible. \u00a0It\u00a0was one of the first successful books that integrated text and illustrations together and also contains two color illustrations of conjoined twins.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

A dried specimen of conjoined twins can be found on display in an exhibit from the Warren Anatomical Museum<\/a>, located at the Countway Library on the 5th floor. \u00a0\u00a0The text Foetum monstrosum et bicipitem dissertatione hac inaugurali … cum ejusdem sceleto sistit<\/em> Joh. Conradus Brunnerus … Argentorati : Typis Johannis Welperi, Anno MDCLXXII [1672]. QM690 .B83 1672<\/a>, can also be\u00a0f<\/span><\/span>ound at the Countway Library<\/a> at the Harvard Medical School in Longwood.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager and Joan Thomas, Rare Book Cataloger at Countway for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.   \u00a0 Johann Conrad Brunner was a Swiss anatomist that is best known for his work with the pancreas and duodenum. \u00a0This fold out plate\u00a0displays both anatomical and skeletal conjoined twin fetuses, which is part of Brunner’s\u00a0medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72745],"tags":[125135,125136,125134,72720,125137,125138],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countway-library-harvard-medical-school","tag-anatomist","tag-conjoined-twins","tag-johan-conrad-brunner","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection","tag-nuremberg-chronicle","tag-warren-anatomical-museum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-19c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}