Meet Josephine Myrtle Corbin, The Four-legged Girl
Meet Josephine Myrtle Corbin, The Four-legged Girl Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born on May 12, 1868, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, with a rare fetal anomaly known as dipygus. Her body was perfectly formed from her head down to her navel, below which it divided into two pelvises, and four lower limbs. Myrtle Corbin was also born with two sets of internal and external reproductive anatomies. Her birth was not marked by anything out of the ordinary, and her mother claimed to have had typical labor and delivery, apart from the baby being momentarily in the breech position. Overall, Myrtle Corbin was a perfectly healthy, active, and thriving baby girl. All in spite of having four legs. After being born with four legs, two normal-sized ones on either side of a pair of diminutive ones, the doctor who delivered Myrtle Corbin felt it necessary to point out the factors they felt could have resulted in her deformity. First, the baby’s parents, the doctors said, were about 10 years ap...