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the climbing which must have formed a considerable part of the 

 labour of the flint workers. The femora in both have the same 

 third-trochanter-like facets for the insertion of the gluteus maximus; 

 in both the right femur has its linea aspera much more prominent 

 than has the left, though the bones of the two opposite sides are in 

 both of the same length ; in both alike is the bone flattened or 

 flanged out in the region of the insertion of the gluteus maximus. 

 In both alike the tibiae are platyenemic; though by the much 

 greater development in the male tibiae of the oblique < soleal ' or 

 * popliteal' line, and its prolongation on to the internal aspect of 

 the bone which thus gives insertion or origin to more or less of 

 three muscles, the soleus, the popliteus, and the flexor communis 

 digitorum which do not encroach upon it in normal tibiae, this 

 platy enemy is made much more striking. The platy enemy, it may 

 be remarked, even of the gorilla, Troglodytes gorilla^ never proceeds 

 so far as this ; though the tibialis posticus takes origin from the 

 outer, the flexor takes origin from the posterior, not from the in- 

 ternal aspect of the tibia. As regards the pathological peculiarities 

 of the male skeleton, it is observable from the annexed measure- 

 ments that the femora have not suffered at all from the right 

 hemiplegia, which we may suppose to have been the cause of the 

 diminution of size of the following left side bones ; the left tibia 

 and fibula being f^-inch less in length, measured from astragalar 

 articulating surface in contact with fibula, than the right ; and the 

 left humerus y^-inch, the left radius T 8 o-mch shorter than the right. 

 With the exception of the shortening, the left limbs do not appear 

 to be inferior in development to the right, in any degree exceeding 

 that which is ordinarily observable in individuals who are, as 

 savage races usually, and civilised very generally, right-handed. 

 The difference which exists between the extent to which this short- 

 ening has affected the lower and upper limbs respectively, is an 

 instructive commentary on the following generalisations which Sir 

 Thomas Watson has based upon his experience and studies (' Prin- 

 ciples of Medicine,' 5th edition, 1871, p. 469) : — 



' Supposing the patient to recover wholly or partially from the paralysis, it is the 

 leg, in nine cases out of ten, aye, and in a much larger proportion than that, which 

 recovers first and fastest ; sooner and quicker than the arm, I mean. And another 

 fact, quite analogous with this, is that when one of the extremities alone is affected 

 with paralysis it is, in nineteen cases out of twenty, the arm that is so affected. In 

 general hemiplegia from cerebral lesion the palsy of the leg is commonly less com- 

 plete, and is^sooner recovered from than the palsy of the arm.' 



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