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mother are known to have had precisely the same 

 abnormality. His father married twice, and one of 

 the half-brothers shows it. The most interesting 

 feature of this case is that A. T. is a direct descendant 

 in the male line from John Talbot, the first Earl of 

 Shrewsbury, who figures in Shakespeare's Henry VI., 



Fig. 17. — Skiagram (Photograph by Rontgen Rays) of the 

 Hands of A. T., showing Continuity of the Proximal 

 AND Middle Phalanges in the Ring and Little Fingers. 

 (After Drinkwater.) 



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and was killed in battle near Bordeaux in 145 

 Tradition has it that his thigh bone was broken 

 while on horseback, and that when he fell from his 

 horse he was killed by the blow of a battleaxe on the 

 head. His body was buried in a tomb inside the 

 church at Whitchurch, which was surmounted by a 



