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Booklet: The Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng - A Biographical sketch, A Lecture, and A Proposal for Effecting Their Separation

Title: Booklet: The Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng - A Biographical sketch, A Lecture, and A Proposal for Effecting Their Separation
Description: Booklet containing articles: The Siamese Twins, Chan and Eng. A Biographical Sketch comprising of the story of the childhood in Siam, their travels in America and Europe, their marriage and domestic life, their misfortunes occasioned by the rebellion in the United States, their purposed separation, and their recreations. Also A Lecture by Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart., M.D., D.C.L., Professor of Medicine and midwifery in the University of Edinburgh and A Proposal for Effecting Their Separation, by James Startin, Esq., F.R.C.S (Senior-Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin) Together with sketches of the lives of Miss Swan, The Nova-Scotian Giantess, and Zoebida Luti,The Lady of Beauty with Illustrations.
Subject: Surry County (N.C.); White Plains (N.C.); Eng Bunker; Siamese Twins; booklet; Chang Bunker; Bunker; family
Source: Max Bunker
Publisher: J.W. Last, Printer, Heathcock Court, 414 Strand, London
Date: late 1800s
Contributor: Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Format: booklet
Type: text
Identifier: Whp_Bun_i93006.008_mam
Coverage: White Plains (N.C.)

Media: Booklet: The Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng - A Biographical sketch, A Lecture, and A Proposal for Effecting Their Separation