of Fingers and Toes, and of the Phalanges, in Man. 99 
placed connecting twig passed from the ulnar nerve to the median 
in the right hand. 
The distribution of the internal plantar nerve, taken alone, would 
indicate that the wanting toes are the two outer; while the distribu- 
tion of the external plantar, taken alone, would indicate that the 
second and third are the wanting toes; but the double apparatus of 
nerves to each cleft, and their source, is exactly explained by sup- 
posing the second and fourth to be the wanting toes. 
(3.) Dissection or Lerr Foot.—The fourth and fifth toes are 
united at their bases. ‘The foot is in the condition of talipes varus. 
Bonzs.—The bases of the proximal phalanges of the fourth and 
fifth toes are united in a single piece, and in front of this they are 
held together by a strong transverse ligament, with an anterior con- 
cave edge. Hach of the lesser toes has three phalanges, except the 
fifth, in which the distinction between the second and third pha- 
langes is not evident, but the softness and smallness of the parts 
render it difficult to pronounce as to this. It has, however, a 
tendon from the flexor brevis digitorum muscle. The fifth meta- 
tarsal bone is wanting. The fourth is double sized, broader but 
not bulkier than that of the hallux, but it presents no trace of 
duplicity externally, and a section shows one large medullary canal. 
The tarsal bones present no variety, except that the cuboid is nar- 
rower than usual, having only one metatarsal bone to support, and 
that the astragalus is fused with the os calcis. 
Moscitzs.—The fourth and fifth toes receive no tendon from the 
Extensor Brevis Digitorwm, and but one tendon from the Hatensor 
Longus Digitorum, which divides at the metatarso-phalangeal joint 
into a tendon for each of the partially united toes. The external 
tendon of the Mlexor Brevis Digitorwm divides in the same manner 
at the head of the metatarsal bone to supply these two toes. Soa 
does the external tendon of the Flexor Longus Digitorum, after 
crossing the metatarso-phalangeal joint. 
The most external of three Lumbricales is double-sized and goes 
to the tibial side of the fourth toe. The first lumbricalis, besides 
going to the tibial side of the second toe, sends a slip to the fibular 
side of the great toe. A muscle arises partly with, partly behind, 
the adductor pollicis, and goes to the neighbouring sides of the 
second and third toes. Of the two plantar Interossez, the external 
is very large and goes to the fourth toe. The Flexor Longus Digi- 
torum and Flexor Longus Pollicis form a common muscle and tendon, 
The muscle splits naturally enough into two, but the outer portion 
comes mainly from the tibia and partly from the upper part of the 
fibula, the usual place of origin of the flexor longus pollicis from 
the fibula being unoccupied. The tendons of these two portions 
form one indivisible tendon above the ankle, which after receiving 
the accessorius, divides into four tendons, the internal for the hallux 
being the greatest, the external, as already noticed, for the two par- 
tially united outer toes.* 
* It is an error to regard the so-called “‘ Flexor Longus Pollicis” as a 
flexor of the great toe only, or to consider the presence of a tendon from it to 
