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1 Conjoined twins occur in approximately one in 50,000 births, and the majority do not survive (they are stillborn).
This was why, in 1689, when a woman gave birth to conjoined twins, he was asked to do a separation. The birth of conjoined twins is a rare, but regular event. And this was not the first separation. We know, from historical sources, that a set of grown male twins was separated in Constantinople in 945 AD. One of the young men had died, and the other, knowing he had no other chance, submitted to the surgery.