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He was totally deprived of all his members. Curran describes a
Hindoo, a prostitute of forty, with congenital absence of both
upper extremities. A slight fleshy protuberance depended from the
cicatrix of the humerus and shoulder-joint of the left side, and
until the age of ten there was one on the right side. She
performed many tricks with her toes. Caldani speaks of a monster
without arms, Davis mentions one, and Smith describes a boy of
four with his upper limbs entirely absent. Breschet has seen a
child of nine with only portions of the upper arms and deformity
of lower extremities and pelvis. Pare says that he saw in Paris
in 1573, at the gate of St. Andrew des Arts, a boy of nine, a
native of a small village near Guise, who had no legs and whose
left foot was represented by a fleshy body hanging from the
trunk; he had but two fingers hanging on his right hand, and had
between his legs what resembled a virile penis. Pare attributes
this anomaly to a default in the quantity of semen.
The figure and skeleton of Harvey Leach, called "Hervio Nono," is
in the museum of the University College in London. The pelvis was
comparatively weak, the femurs hardly to be recognized, and the
right tibia and foot defective; the left foot was better
developed, although far from being in due proportion to the trunk
above.
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