The accompanying illustration shows the appearance of the limbs at the time of report.
Figure 10 represents a negro boy, the victim of intrauterine amputation, who learned to utilize his toes for many purposes.

The illustration shows his mode of holding his pen.
There is an instance reported in which a child at full term was born with an amputated arm, and at the age of seventeen the stump was scarcely if at all smaller than the other.

Blake speaks of a case of congenital amputation of both the upper extremities.

Gillilam a mentions a case that shows the deleterious influence of even the weight of a fetal limb resting on a cord or band.

His case was that of a fetus, the product of a miscarriage of traumatic origin; the soft tissues were almost cut through and the bone denuded by the limb resting on one of the two umbilical cords, not encircling it, but in a sling.