Engraved from the book of Ambroise Pare: Des Monsters et Prodiges (1573) - Excerpts from...

Engraving from the book of Ambroise Parare: Monsters and Wonders (1573) - Excerpts from the text: “” Hippocrats on the generation of monsters says that if there is too much seed there will be many portees or a monstrous child with superfluous and useless parts such as two heads, four arms or legs, six fingers of hands and feet or others things. On the contrary, if the seed fails in quantity, some limb will be defective, like having only one hand, no arm, or feet, or head, or other defaillant part. [...] In 1569, a woman from Tours bore two gems with only one head, who kissed each other and were given to me dry and anatomized by Master Rene Ciret, master barber and surgeon.””