The femur was six inches
long, the woman had a foot of six bones, four being toes, viz.,
the first and second phalanges of the first and second toes. She
had an acetabulum, capsule, and ligamentum teres, but no tibia or
fibula; she also had a defective right forearm. She was never the
victim of rachitis or like disease, but died of syphilis in the
Colonial Hospital. In her twenty-second year she was delivered of
a full-grown child free of deformity.
There was a woman living in Bavaria, under the observation of
Buhl, who had congenital absence of both femurs and both fibulas.
Almost all the muscles of the thigh existed, and the main
attachment to the pelvis was by a large capsular articulation.
Charpentier gives the portrait of a woman in whom there was a
uniform diminution in the size of the limbs. Debout portrays a
young man with almost complete absence of the thigh and leg, from
whose right hip there depended a foot. Accrell describes a
peasant of twenty-six, born without a hip, thigh, or leg on the
right side. The external genital organs were in their usual
place, but there was only one testicle in the scrotum. The man
was virile. The rectum instead of opening outward and underneath
was deflected to the right.
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