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The bladder was normal ; there was no right ureter. The suprarenal body 
of the right side was in its normal position and appeared normal. No otlier 
abnormalities were remarked. 
(26) Some suggestive observations have been made by Dv Ewald Stier, 
published in the Deutsche Zeitschrift fiir Nervenheilkunde (Band XLiv, Heft 1-2, 
S. 21), from which the generalisation is made that in all anomalies of overgrowth the 
right side of the body is much more frequently involved than the left, whereas in 
anomalies of undergrowth the left is more commonly the site of the condition 
than the right, this distribution being the result of a preponderance of persons 
with a leading or superior left cerebral hemisphere, as with left-handed persons 
the converse was found to be true. In other words, the plus anomalies occur on 
the right side in right-handed people and the minus anomalies on the left side, 
the left hemisphere being the superior hemisphere, the converse being true. 
I have therefore tabulated my observations, and though small in number they 
tend to confirm the idea assuming that the African native is right-handed. This 
remains unproved and a less marked superiority of the left hemisphere may 
account for non-conformity of my few cases to Stier's rule. 
Eight 
Bilateral 
Left 
Plus AnomuUes : 
Reduplication of teeth 
2 
3 
0 
Polymazia 
1 
1 
0 
Polythelia 
10 
0 
5 
Polydactyly ... 
1 
4 
2 
M inns A nomalies : 
Hare-lij) 
0 
0 
2 
Cryptorchidism 
2 
0 
2 
Absence of Fibula ... 
1 
0 
0 
,, ,, and Tibia... 
0 
0 
1 
Split hand, foot 
0 
1 
1 
Shortened metacai'pal, -tarsal 
0 
1 
3 
Syndactyly 
1 
0 
0 
Colobonia iris 
1 
1 
0 
Plus and Alums together : 
Chibisa 
1 (+) 
l(-) 
In considering these cases it should be remembered that the majority of my 
observations have been made casually among natives met in the bush, in villages, 
etc., others in the course of routine work among troops, prisoners, etc., tlie few 
were the result of special investigation. 
(27) Concluding Remarks. The notes of cases which I have thus collected 
together form rather a medley of facts but I think certain deductions may be 
made from them. 
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