462 NATUllAI. EXPEDIENTS FOR SUPPLYING 
APPENDIX. 
Cases referred to in page 450, of Individuals completely de- 
prived of their Arms from the Shoulder-joints, in which 
it is shewn, that, under such circumstances, the natural 
Expedients they made use qf, to obviate that loss, coiu 
sisted in the nearly exclusive use of their Feet and Toes, 
Of the first of these cases, I find but a very scanty notice, 
in a scarce folio work, entitled, " A complete History of 
the most remarkable Providences, both of Judgment and 
Mercy, by William Turner, M. -4.'" Under the head of 
" Wonderful Shapes,'' &c., there is the following passage : 
— " We have seen," saith Alexander Benedictus, " a 
woman born without arms, thafc could spin and sew with 
her feet." 
The second case which has come to my knowledge, is 
that of a woman born without arms, who exhibited herself 
in England about twenty-five or thirty years ago. She 
executed with her toes many curious specimens of needle- 
work, cut out watch-papers, and wrote in a very beautiful 
style. 
The third case was obligingly pointed out to me by a 
gentleman, as it occurs in the Calcutta Journal of 1st No- 
