The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and toes and their surgical treatment / by Thomas Annandale.

Date:
1865
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Credit: The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and toes and their surgical treatment / by Thomas Annandale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the left hand is very useful, and she is able to cany a pail of water on it. This patient's foot is represented in Fig. ] 8, Plate II.; the wliole of the toes are atrophied and united, the great toe being least developed. When lately in Carlisle, Mr, Temperly, surgeon, was kind enough to show me the case from whose hand Fig. 7, Plate i., is taken. The patient was an intelligent little girl, aged four and a half years, who was well developed, with the exception of her left hand. This hand had only a thumb and little finger. The thumb was double, there being two first pha- langeal bones united, but only one second phalanx. The metacarpal bones of the index and middle finger were wanting. The metacarpal bone of the ring finger could be readily felt, its distal extremity being free. The two digits were freely movable, and objects could be firmly grasped between them. I am indebted to Dr. Legat of South Sliields for notes of this case, which is illustrated by Fig. 3 5 :— Case 5.—Congenital Absence of Foilv Fingers. The patient, a little girl aged three years, was one of a family of five children, none of whom presented any de- formity except herself. The left hand possessed only a thumb, which was well developed and movable. Tlie mother of this child stated that, when in the early months of pregnancy, before the birth of the patient, a man came