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CHAPTER VI
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Mason has seen nine toes on the left foot.

There is recorded the account of a child who had 12 toes and six fingers on each hand, one fractured.

Braid describes talipes varus in a child of a few months who had ten toes.

There is also on record a collection of cases of from seven to ten fingers on each hand and from seven to ten toes on each foot.

Scherer gives an illustration of a female infant, otherwise normally formed, with seven fingers on each hand, all united and bearing claw-like nails.


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