Photo: Meet A Man With 3 Functional Legs And 2 Hearts
Photo: Meet A Man With 3 Functional Legs And 2 Hearts Meet a man who was born with three functional legs and two hearts. George Lippert (1842-1906) was born in Bavaria, Germany with two functioning hearts and three functioning legs. His right leg was separated into two, one of which was normal-sized, club-footed with extra one toe making it six in number not proper for walking, and another one that was ill-shaped, ended in the shape of a knob and carried only three toes. Ironically he walked upon this second one in the manner of a peg leg. The only known images of him are pitch cards based on an illustration, so one cant precisely describe his physiognomy accorded with reality. More to know about him; George Lippert (1844, Bavaria – July 1906, Salem, Oregon), was born with three legs and, as was discovered during his autopsy, two hearts. He worked as a curiosity for nearly 50 years, many of them for P. T. Barnum. Although he claimed that his third leg was fully...