In 1821, Philadelphia physician John Kearsley Mitchell met and examined Aké, a Chinese youth with a partially-formed parasitic twin protruding from his stomach, and sent back this first-hand report from Canton. An account of a monster, by John Kearsley Mitchell, published in The Philadelphia journal of the medical and physical sciences, volume 3
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