Archive image from page 725 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 1510 As to this case of Deborah O'Neil, no am- biguity existed. At the time the writer thus laid her case before the meeting, accompanied by casts of her forearms, she was, and had WRIST-JOINT (ABNORMAL ANATOMY). been for many years previously, an inmate in the House of Industry, under the constant observation of the whole medical staff of the institution. The history of her life was known. Fig. Left Forearm. Case of O'Neil. It was stated that she never m
Archive image from page 725 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 1510 As to this case of Deborah O'Neil, no am- biguity existed. At the time the writer thus laid her case before the meeting, accompanied by casts of her forearms, she was, and had WRIST-JOINT (ABNORMAL ANATOMY). been for many years previously, an inmate in the House of Industry, under the constant observation of the whole medical staff of the institution. The history of her life was known. Fig. Left Forearm. Case of O'Neil. It was stated that she never met with any accident, and that the peculiar deformity observable in each forearm and wrist-joint had existed from her birth. The writer, in continuation, observed, that while congenital malformation was known very frequently to affect simultaneously both sides of the body, yet it would, on the other hand, be very difficult for any one to suggest what pro- bable accidental causes could be imagined capable of dislocating the bones of both wrist- joints, in opposite directions, as in the case of O'Neil: besides, the mere displacement of the bones of both forearms at the wrist-joint, con- stituted only a part of the abnormal state of things noticed, because both of the forearms were so short as to measure only half the length of the arm, and did not exceed in length the measurement of the long axis of the hand. The history of her case, then, from her birth — the negative evidence as to the existence of any previous accidental cause adequate to ac- count for the appearances, and the actual abnormal condition of both the upper extre- mities of O'Neil — all taken together, suffi- ciently proved her case to offer a curious spe- cimen of congenital malformation of both wrist-joints and forearms.' When the writer presented this case to the meeting of the Pathological Society, he laid before the members two casts of the mal- formed extremities of the patient, and when the drawing of
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