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raremon:

Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868. 

She had a rare form of conjoined twinning, dipygus, which gave her two complete bodies from the waist down; one hers, the other belonging to her dipygus twin sister, who was smaller, mal-formed and had three toes on each foot. Both lower bodies were fully developed sexually; both vaginas would menstruate simultaneously, Myrtle even successfully delivered three children on the right side, and two on her left side.

Myrtle became an exhibit in the sideshow circut at 13. She toured with P.T Barnum and later the Ringling Brothers. And became an extremely popular attraction on Coney Island, earning sometimes $450 a week.

In 1928 Myrtle developed a skin infection on her right leg. When it failed to heal she finally went to a doctor in Cleburne. He diagnosed her as having erysipilas – a streptococcal skin infection.

On May 6, less than a week after being diagnosed, Josephine Myrtle Corbin-Bicknell was dead at age 60.

“Myrtle even successfully delivered three children on the right side, and two on her left side. “  WHAT.  She was the coolest!

(Source: vveaboo, via polar-opposite)