Fournier has seen several Spaniards and Germans who could perform this feat, and knew one man who could smoke a whole cigar without losing any smoke, since he made it leave either by his mouth, his ears, or in both ways.
Fournier in the same article mentions that he has seen a woman with ears over four inches long.
Strange to say, there have been reports of cases in which the ossicles were deficient without causing any imperfection of hearing.

Caldani mentions a case with the incus and malleus deficient, and Scarpa and Torreau quote instances of deficient ossicles.

Thomka in 1895 reported a case of supernumerary tympanic ossicle, the nature of which was unknown, although it was neither an inflammatory product nor a remnant of Meckel's cartilage.
Absence of the Limbs .-- Those persons born without limbs are either the subjects of intrauterine amputation or of embryonic malformation.
Probably the most celebrated of this class was Marc Cazotte, otherwise known as "Pepin," who died in Paris in the last century at the age of sixty-two of a chronic intestinal disorder.

He had no arms, legs, or scrotum, but from very jutting shoulders on each side were well-formed hands.

His abdomen ended in a flattened buttock with badly-formed feet attached.