criptions of
armless people.

Hulke describes a child of four whose upper limbs were absent, a small
dimple only being in their place. He had free movement of the shoulders
in every direction and could grasp objects between his cheeks and his
acromian process; the prehensile power of the toes was well developed,
as he could pick up a coin thrown to him. A monster of the same
conformation was the celebrated painter, Ducornet, who was born at
Lille on the 10th of January, 1806. He was completely deprived of arms,
but the rest of the body was well formed with the exception of the
feet, of which the second toe was faulty. The deformity of the feet,
however, had the happiest result, as the space between the great toe
and its neighbor was much larger than ordinary and the toes much more
mobile. He became so skilful in his adopted profession that he finally
painted a picture eleven feet in height (representing Mary Magdalene at
the feet of Christ after the resurrection), which was purchased by the
Government and given to the city of Lille. Broca describes James
Leedgwood, who was deprived of his arms and had only one leg. He
exhibited great dexterity with his single foot, wrote, discharged a
pistol, etc.; he was said to have been able to pick up a sewing-needle
on a slippery surface with his eyes blindfolded. Capitan described to
the Societe d'anthropologie de Paris a young man without arms, who was
said to play a violin and cornet with his feet. He was able to take a
kerchief from his pocket and to blow his nose; he could make a
cigarette, light it, and put it in his mouth, play cards, drink from a
glass, and eat with a fork by the aid of his dexterous toes. There was
a creature exhibited some time since in the principal cities of France,
who was called the "l'homme tronc." 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.