Medical and surgical reports . FIGURE 8. limb of mammals. It is an interesting matter for specu-lation whether the webbing of the fingers may not be areversion to some ancestral type in which the digits were ANOMALIES OF THE PHALANGES. 11 united by a web. The fact that in all the. cases which havecome under the writers observation syndactylism has beenassociated with anomalies of the phalanges and sometimes. FIGURE 9. of the metacarpal bones, points to developmental origin ofthe defonnity, and at the same time has a practical bearingas increasing the difficulty of treatment. In these cases the
Medical and surgical reports . FIGURE 8. limb of mammals. It is an interesting matter for specu-lation whether the webbing of the fingers may not be areversion to some ancestral type in which the digits were ANOMALIES OF THE PHALANGES. 11 united by a web. The fact that in all the. cases which havecome under the writers observation syndactylism has beenassociated with anomalies of the phalanges and sometimes. FIGURE 9. of the metacarpal bones, points to developmental origin ofthe defonnity, and at the same time has a practical bearingas increasing the difficulty of treatment. In these cases the 12 ANOMALIES OF THE PHALANGES. fingers are not only united by a web, but the soft parts oftlie adjacent fingers are practically one, forming a band ofunion as thick as the fingers themselves, and even the bonesthemselves are frequently united, so that even if the fingersare separated it becomes practically impossible to get skin
Size: 1309px × 1910px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookpublisherbosto, bookyear1864
