A Reference handbook of the medical sciences - embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science (1885) (14780995561)

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Title: A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science

Year: 1885 (1880s)

Authors: Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922

Subjects: Medicine

Publisher: New York : William Wood

Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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ost mammals.Cases are known of bifid and even double penis in man. I can barelymention the occur-rence of extra ribs,vertebra?, cranialbones ; double kid-neys ; single kid-ney with two ure-ters ; extra ears,more or less devel-oped ; extra hornsin goats, cattle,etc.; bifid tails infish and reptiles,etc. Polymelia, poly-celia, polypedia,polybrachia, poly-mania, and poly-dactylus, are aseries of terato-logical terms thatare applied to casesof many limbs,many legs, manyfeet, many arms,many hands, andmany digits,whether fingers ortoes. The litera-ture contains nu-merous illustrativeexamples of eachof these forms. Arecent and ex-tremely interestingcase of polybrachiais shown in Fig.3872, which is cop-ied from Charpen-tiers Treatise onObstetrics, vol.iii., p. 327, ofWoods Cyclopae-dia of Obstetricsand Gynecolosiv,New York, 1887.The case is inserted by the editor. Dr. Graudin, from anaccount given of it by Dr. Burnett, of Long Island City,in whose practice the child was born. Child, a female,

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Fig. 3872. — Polymelia (Polybrachia).nett.)«° (Biu- 26 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Teratology.Testicle. aged thirteen months, well formed, excepting- the rightupper extremity. There are two humeri, each articu-lating with a radius and ulna. In the forearm are threeradii and three ulnae, the central possibly articulatingwith the inner humerus. There are three hands ; eachcan be moved separately. The inner hand has four fin-gers and one thumb, the latter always flexed in the handfrom absence of the extensor muscle, and on its ulnarsurface two rudimentary ringers ; the middle hand hasfour fingers, always contracted, and no thumb ; the outerhand has five perfect fingers. Thus then : Two humeri,three radii, three ulme, sixteen fingers, two rudimentary.Here we have an instance of triple development, winchis in no essential respect different from what has beenalleged to have occurred in the production of a three-headed human foetus. Several authentic cases of doablelegs,

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