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toes, may likewise be transmitted, as shown in the 

 following cases from Mr. Sedgwick's paper on the 

 " Influence of Sex in Hereditary Disease : " 



A pastry-cook at Douai, named Augustin Duforet, 

 had but two phalanges to all his fingers and toes. 

 This defect he inherited from his grandfather, who 

 had three children with the same malformation ; the 

 eldest of them (a son) had three sons all with the same 

 defect ; the second (a daughter) has had five children, 

 two daughters with three phalanges, and three sons 

 who have only two ; the third, who is the father of 

 Augustin, had eleven children, five daughters normal- 

 ly formed, and six sons, in all of whom there is a pha- 

 lanx wanting in both fingers and toes. 



The mother of Augustin also had two male, still- 

 born children, with the same deformity. 



Dr. Lepine reports the case of a man who had 

 only three fingers on each hand, and four toes on each 

 foot ; his grandfather and son had likewise the same 

 deformity. 



B6chet records the case of a woman (Yictorie 

 Barre) " who, instead of , hands, had on each arm one 

 finger only, the other fingers and their metacarpal 

 bones, with the exception of imperfect rudiments of 

 two of the latter, being entirely wanting ; while on 

 each foot there were but two toes, apparently the first 

 and fifth, but both very defective. She was twice 

 married : by her first marriage she had a healthy and 

 regularly-formed male child, and by her second mar- 

 riage two daughters malformed like herself ; and her 

 sister and father were also deformed in a similar man- 



