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Myrtle Corbin
Josephine Myrtle Corbin (May 12, 1868 in Lincoln County, Tennessee〔(Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman of Blount County ), 23 April 2009〕 – May 6, 1928 in Cleburne, Texas) was born a dipygus. This referred to the fact that she had two separate pelvises side by side from the waist down, as a result of her body axis splitting as it developed. Each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs. She was said to be able to move her inner legs, but they were too weak for walking.
==Early life and career==
Corbin's parents were William H. Corbin, aged 25 at the time of his daughter's birth, and Nancy Corbin (née Sullins), aged 34.〔Jaggard, William Wright. "Joined Twins." ( ''Cyclopaedia of the Surgical Diseases of Children, Medical and Surgical (Volume I).'' ) Edited by John M. Keating. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1889, p. 933〕 Both parents were described by physicians who examined the infant shortly after her birth as being very similar in appearance, "both having red hair, blue eyes, and very fair complexion"; in fact, they looked so similar that the physicians felt compelled to point out that they were not "blood kin".〔 The Corbins had four sons and four daughters in total, including a daughter from Nancy's first marriage.〔〔
The infant Myrtle's birth was not marked by anything "peculiar about the labour or delivery" according to her mother, which was itself a stroke of luck: doctors who examined the child shortly after her birth noted that a breech presentation "would have proved fatal to the infant, and possibly to the mother."〔Parvin, Theophilus. ''The Western Journal of Medicine'', Volume III. T. Parvin & Co, 1868, p. 585〕 Corbin soon showed herself to be a strong child, weighing 10 lbs three weeks after her birth, and it was reported in a journal published later that year that she "nurses healthily" and was "thriving well" 〔
Corbin entered the sideshow circuit with the moniker "Four-Legged Girl from Texas" when she was 13 years old; one of her first promotional pamphlets described her as being as "gentle of disposition as the summer sunshine and as happy as the day is long."〔Bogdan, Robert. ''Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit''. The University of Chicago Press, 1988, p. 230〕 Her popularity in this industry was such that other showmen turned to exhibiting four-legged gaffs (falsified performances) and once Corbin herself was no longer performing, there were several phony four-legged women to whom audiences could turn.〔 At the age of 19 she married Clinton Bicknell, and she would go on to give birth to four daughters and a son.
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