The middle and ring fingers of the supernumerary hand were webbed as far as the proximal joints, and the movements of this hand were stiff and imperfect.

No single finger of the two hands could be extended while the other seven were flexed.

Giraldes saw an infant in 1864 with somewhat the same deformity, but in which the disposition of the muscles and tendons permitted the ordinary movements.
Absence of Digits .-- Maygrier describes a woman of twenty-four who instead of having a hand on each arm had only one finger, and each foot had but two toes.

She was delivered of two female children in 1827 and one in 1829, each having exactly the same deformities.

Her mother was perfectly formed, but the father had but one toe on his foot and one finger on his left hand.
Kohler gives photographs of quite a remarkable case of suppression and deformity of the digits of both the fingers and toes.
Figure 123 shows a man who was recently exhibited in Philadelphia.