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James Augustus Rooth

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Dr James Augustus Rooth (1869-1963) was a colonel of the Royal Army Medical Corps and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Educated at University of Oxford he was the doctor in charge of the delivery of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins born in Brighton in 1908 and the first to live to adulthood. He provided a medical account of them for the British Medical Journal.[1]

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