The amputations were congenital, and on the right side there was a very small stump of the upper arm remaining, admitting the attachment of an artificial apparatus.

He was twenty-seven years old, and able to write, to thread a needle, pour water out of a bottle, etc.
Cook speaks of a female child born of Indian parents, the fourth birth of a mother twenty-six years old.

The child weighed 5 1/2 pounds; the circumference of the head was 14 inches and that of the trunk 13 inches.

The upper extremities consisted of perfect shoulder joints, but only 1/4 of each humerus was present.

Both sides showed evidences of amputation, the cicatrix on the right side being 1 inch long and on the left 1/4 inch long.