# The History of Monsters. 612. Ulisse Aldrovandi

IV. A single-headed monster with two bodies.

Pliny, in the third chapter of the same book, mentions a boy born after a subsequent period in the womb, and immediately after, four living infants were born from the same mother. One of these, however, was a monster; although its internal parts were correctly formed, in the region of its belly there was another body which gaped open... it had only one head, and the arms were missing, which in the free part