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

  • Annandale, Thomas, 1839-1908.
Date:
1866
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    a narrow pedicle to the hand, foot, or another digit. 2d. As a more or less developed organ, free at its extremity, and articulating with the head or sides of a metacarpal, metatarsal, or phalangeal bone, which is common to it and another digit. Zd. As a fully developed organ, having its own metacarpal or metatarsal and phalangeal bones dis- tinct. 4th. As a more or less developed organ intimately united along its whole length to another digit, and having either an additional metacarpal or metatarsal bone of its own, or articulating with the head of one which is common to it and the other digit. Fingers and toes are most commonly increased in number by one only, but cases are on record in which this number has been greater. In the London Med. Gazette for April 12, 1834, is recorded the case of a young man aged nine- teen, who was under the care of Mr. Arnott, in the Middlesex Hospital. This patient had thirteen toes —seven on the left foot, six on the right; he had also originally fourteen fingers, but two of them were removed shortly after birth. In the Copenhagen Transactions, J. Bartholine describes a skeleton which had seven fingers on