Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The most disturbing thing you'll read today, and possibly ever.

In a small village in India, not far from Mumbai, there is a young man upon whose head sits the malformed head of his own stone-faced twin. If one imagines, say, a woman balancing a jug of water perfectly upright on the top of her skull, this is the basic configuration of the man's gross anatomy—a cranial redundancy with both heads facing forward. "As the patient had grown up," observed physician Ritesh Kansal and his colleagues when the double-headed 20-year-old first stepped into their outpatient facility, "the additional head had [similarly] grown in size."

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