338 M. White on the Regeneration 
every degree of firmnefs, and folidity, and the 
ftump was warm to the extreme point, and he 
informed me, was perfectly fenfible when 
touched. Along with this, you will receive a 
drawing of the young man, and the appearance 
which the flump made, executed by your in¬ 
genious Secretary Mr. Bew, at the time the 
patient was at the Infirmary. 
Some years ago, 1 delivered a lady of rank 
of a fine boy, who had two thumbs upon one 
hand, or rather, a thumb double from the fir ft 
joint, the outer one rather lefs.than the other, 
‘ each part having a perfect nail. When he was 
about three years old, I was defired to take 
off the leffer one, which I did ; but to my great 
aftonifhment it grew again, and along with it, 
the nail. The family afterwards went to refide 
in London, where his father (hewed it to that 
excellent operator, William Bromfield, Eiq. fur- 
aeon to the Queen’s houfehold, who faid, he 
fuppofed that Mr. White, being afraid of 
damaging the joint, had not taken it wholly out, 
but he would diffed it out entirely, and then 
it would not return. He accordingly executed 
the plan, he had defcribed, with great dexterity, 
and turned the ball fairly out of the focket; 
notwithftanding this, it grew again, a fiefii nail 
was formed, and the thumb remains in this ftate. 
The conclufions I would draw from thefe 
fads, are, that, in the human fpecies, not only 
fiefh. 
