Thomas Dent Mütter
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Thomas Dent Mütter was an American surgeon born in Richmond, Virginia. Orphaned at the age of 8 and raised by a distant relative, he attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and graduated with an M
Mütter in the 1840s
Mütter Museum
Chang and Eng Bunker
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Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker were Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers whose fame propelled the expression "Siamese twins" to become synonymous for conjoined twins in general. They were widely exhi
Thomas Dent Mütter
…piece of Albert Einstein's brain, a cancerous growth from the mouth of President Grover Cleveland and the livers and plaster cast of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng. A Lecture on Loxarthrus, or Club Foot, (1839…
Eng (left) and Chang (right) in later years
Colored sketching of the young twins
Early reports on the twins described them as young boys, a label they tried to shake.
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