Conjoined twins dead twin from the surviving twin. The result was partly successful as the remaining twin lived for three days after separation. The next case of separating conjoined twins was recorded in 1689 in Germany several centuries later. The first recorded successful separation of conjoined twins was performed in 1689 by Johannes Fatio. In 1955, neurosurgeon Harold Voris (1902-1980) and his team at Mercy Hospital in Chicago performed the first successful operation to separate craniopagus twins (conjoined at the head), which resulted in long-term survival for both. The larger girl was reported in 1963 as developing normally, but the smaller was
Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins it features Tarzan's first meeting with Doctor Karl von Harben, with whom he is already acquainted in "Empire". Because "Twins" is a children's book, however, it is customarily omitted from listings of the main Tarzan series. Thus "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" is generally considered the eleventh Tarzan book rather than "Twins". Two schoolboys, Dick and Doc, are cousins who resemble each other because their mothers are twins. As Dick is also related to Tarzan through his father, they become known as the Tarzan Twins. Invited to visit Tarzan's African estate, they become lost in the jungle and are imprisoned