Twins are not unusual, but have you ever heard of conjoined babies? Egg twins are generally very similar in appearance, and the gender is the same.
But once the fertilized egg splits out of a new place, it is extremely rare to be able to give birth smoothly, so the probability of a conjoined baby being born smoothly is very small, only one in 200,000, and the En and Chang brothers are one of them.
Only a small part of eun and Chang brothers' bodies are glued together, with an independent lower body and an independent mind. Although they are always met with the blank eyes of others, they still encounter their own love in the process.
Although strongly opposed by the locals, he broke through many obstacles, successfully married his wife, and gave birth to 22 children.
The Siamese brothers were discriminated against on their way of growth, and they bought a farm with their wisdom and have no worries about food and clothing
Born in 1811 in an ordinary family in Thailand, the eun & Chang brothers greeted the arrival of new life with joy, resulting in the birth of conjoined babies, and the residents living nearby regarded the two brothers as the embodiment of a curse, believing that they represented ominous omens, and also tried to separate the two with a thin wire.
Fortunately, the brothers had parents who loved them, treated them as a normal child and did not give up on him, and sent them to school to learn knowledge and culture. But because of their strange appearance, the two brothers did not have a good life in school, and the classmates always regarded them as aliens, and all the children isolated them.
The parents were also very distressed after seeing this situation, and in order not to let the brothers bear so much psychological pressure, the mother decided to be a teacher herself to teach the children.
In these twists and turns, after the two brothers were known to the Thai king at the time, the king would invite the two brothers to the palace to perform a show and make them the king's envoys. The king was only in a state of curiosity and ostentation at that time, and did not take them seriously.
The people around them looked at the brothers as if they were watching a monster. In fact, for most conjoined babies, even if they are born smoothly, it is difficult to survive, and the very few who survive can only make money by various performance exhibitions and become the money-making tools of businessmen, and the brothers are no exception.
In 1829, a British businessman discovered that the brothers could be a weapon for making money, took eun and Chang brothers away from the family, took them to the circus, and the two brothers began their lives in the circus. In the beginning, the brothers did not have a good time in the circus, and they also suffered many injuries during the rehearsal of the show.
Gradually, the tacit understanding of the two people can accurately master various skills, and finally accumulate a lot of fame with hard work, and then their income is getting higher and higher, and after the brothers have saved enough money, they also begin to plan their new future.
So the brothers used the money they had saved over the years to buy a farm, and when they became farmers, they could live a good life even if they didn't work.
The Siamese brothers fell in love and gave birth to 22 healthy children
In the fate of many people, the life of the En and Chang brothers can be described as one of the few conjoined bodies that have appeared in the long river of history, and most of them often have very poor living conditions for various reasons, and they also have to face being treated as an outlier by others, and there is no way to integrate into society well.
But the Eun & Chang brothers were indeed an exception, gaining a rich life through their own efforts, and now owning their own farms and achieving economic freedom. When the material life is satisfied, human beings begin to pursue the spiritual life, including having a love of their own.
At this time, something sweet happened to them like brothers, because a pair of twin sisters from England fell in love with the brothers, and the brothers wanted to have a wedding and marry the twin sisters into the farm, but at this time their love was strongly opposed by the locals.
Opponents believe that the brother is nominally a person, can not marry two girls at the same time, so as to commit bigamy, more importantly, in the eyes of the local people, the brothers as yellow people are not worthy of the noble white race, do not want the British twin sisters who are white people to marry two brothers.
The Eun and Chang brothers did not think so, although the two were physically connected, but had different ideas and personalities, and finally succeeded in winning the twin sister Flower in 1843. Because of the conjoined brothers, the four of them could only sleep on a custom-made large bed.
There was always friction between the four of them living under the same roof, and soon the twin sisters were at odds, and the brothers could only run back and forth on both ends, sleeping with their sister for three days, and then returning to their sister to sleep.
In this way, the four of them lived happily after marriage, and during these years, the two sisters also gave birth to 22 children for the brothers, and there were no conjoined cases in these 22 children.
How are conjoined babies produced? How did it end?
So how exactly did Siamese come about? After a long period of research and various collections and comparisons, scientists believe that conjoined babies are actually the same as the differentiation process of twins, which are initially formed by the division of a fertilized egg, but there is a deviation in the process of division, which leads to some parts of their body being connected.
Under normal circumstances, a fertilized egg can become a twin within four weeks of successful fertilization, and both twins have their own chorionic amniotic membrane, which is the normal situation for twins. If there is a lack of amniotic membrane in the middle during the process of division, conjoined babies are produced.
For conjoined people they have different thoughts and personalities, the bodies of two people are connected, but they have completely different hearts, and the most important thing is that conjoined life is closely linked.
Blood exchange occurs spontaneously within their bodies, and one person becomes ill or dies and another person is affected, as is the case with the two brothers mentioned earlier, when the older brother of one brother plummets in his physical state due to long-term alcoholism in the later stages, and the younger brother is very afraid.
The younger brother was worried about whether his brother's death would affect his life, so he went to the doctor everywhere to try to perform body separation surgery.
At this time, a doctor volunteered that if one of the brothers died, they could be separated from each other to ensure that the other person could continue to live, and the brother's body eventually could not survive, and his health deteriorated and eventually died.
Just three hours after his brother's death, his brother suddenly felt an unexplained panic, and he also felt that his life was rapidly draining, and less than three hours after his brother's death, his brother did not survive, and his brother died one after another.
It is precisely because two people have been using a body together for a long time, so after feeling that the situation on one side is not good, they will desperately try to save him, release a large number of red blood cells, and eventually lead to the death of the healthy side of the body.