On the left hand the thumb and middle fingers were hypertrophied and the index finger was as long as the middle one of the right hand.

The middle finger had a lateral curvature outward, due to a displacement of the extensor tendon.

This affection resembled acromegaly.

Curling cites similar cases, one in a Spanish gentleman, Governor of Luzon, in the Philippine Islands, in 1850, who had an extraordinary middle finger, which he concealed by carrying it in the breast of his coat.
Hutchinson exhibited a photograph showing the absence of the radius and thumb, with shortening of the forearm.

Conditions more or less approaching this had occurred in several members of the same family.