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one is attached a double phalanx made by the union of 

 the proximal phalanx of thumb and index-finger, and 

 then there are thumb, index, middle and ring-fingers but 

 no little finger and no metacarpal bone of the thumb. 

 In this case the greater deformity is on the left side. 



Here is a similar deformity in a man of 55 years of 

 age. On the left side he has both radius and ulna with 

 an apparent tendency to fusion of humerus and ulna 

 with lengthening of the internal condyle of humerus. At 

 the wrist joint, there is a scaphoid bone and rudimentary 

 trapezium ; there is apparently an os magnum and unci- 

 form, the other bones of carpus rudimentary, three 

 metacarpal bones for fore-finger, middle and ring-finger, 

 none for thumb or little finger and the same arrangement 

 as in the boy's fingers of right hand. In the man's right 

 hand the radius and ulna are nearly perfect. There is 

 a scaphoid, semi-lunar and cuneiform blended, a pisiform 

 but no trapezium, there is a trepezoid os magnum and 

 unciform, there is present a complete index, middle 

 and ring-finger with a rudimentary thumb, and the meta- 

 carpal bone of the right finger. 



The next is a club-foot on the left side and not on 

 the right. 



The next is a deformity of the left leg, the 

 tibia and fibula end in expanded bony growths, and the 

 bones of the foot are represented by rudimentary points 

 of ossification, and here is a case of congenital 

 absence of the left fibula. 



Here is a picture of another abnormal left arm 

 recorded by Dr. Jubb, 1 Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In 

 this case the deformity is absence of radius in its greater 

 extent and of the carpal and metacarpal bones of the 

 thumb. This deformity is again on the left side. 



When a student, in 1853, the writer had the oppor- 

 tunity of seeing a specimen of hermaphrodite organs 

 as a preparation now in the museum of St. Mary's, 



1 Copied from the archives of the Roentgen Ray of Lon- 

 don, Rebman & Co. 



