A baby with two hearts;
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A baby with two hearts;

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A baby with two hearts;
a baby with deformed facial features; and a baby without limbs

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LS: A child with two hearts. It was born in Vienna.

LS: A boy, born in Silesia, who has no arms or legs. He only survived for a couple of weeks, was happy and lively during that time, and seemed to enjoy his life; especially in the bathtub he wriggled about most endearingly. A paralysis of the lungs killed him. It is particularly noteworthy that he had arms and legs as an embryo, but they were cut off by the umbilical cord, which had twisted itself around them.

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