488 THE HAND AS AN UNRULY MEMBER. 
sition with the idea and with each other at the same time. 
To avoid both horns of this dilemma seemed at first im- 
possible ; but suddenly it occurred to him to drop the 
unconformable arm, and to try its fellow of the opposite 
side; and now, upon placing the left arm (Fig. 4) by the 
side of the right leg, and turning it as before so that the 
elbow pointed forward like the knee, the two bones of the 
forearm remaining parallel with each other, he was re- 
warded for his ingenuity by seeing the articular surfaces of 
the humerus and femur both looking inward. With this 
very artificial arrangement he seems to have been satisfied, 
and dismisses the subject with the remark, that “the corre- 
spondences of the fingers with the toes are so evident that 
it is unnecessary to enumerate them”; either not perceiv- 
ing or caring that though the fingers pointed forward 
like the toes, yet the thumb was now upon the outer bor- 
der of the limb, and was thus made to correspond with 
the Jittle toe. 
We shall, I hope, ba convinced that, in spite of the fact 
that the thumb and great toe have only ¿wo joints, the 
above is really the true relation so far as concerns them 
alone; but Vicq d’Azyr had no reason for thinking 80, 
since the opinion upon this matter which, then as now, 
was nearly universal, is well expressed in these words 
of a later writer, “il est évident pour tout le monde que 
le pouce est l'analogue* du gros orteil.” Vicq d’AzyT 
seems rather to have been loth to enter into particulars, 
and really ignores the hand altogether; for it was doubt- 
less the apparent parallelism betwedn the foot and the 
hand in its ordinary state of pronation that induced him 
to force the whole limb into a similar relation by turning 
; ai evident to every one that the thumb is the analogue of the great toe 2; in 
ER ares used by Martins in the sense of “homologue > 
tly limited | se ofthe word, | the thumb is the analogue of the great toe 
