STR A NGE INHERITANCE
STIFF FINGERS THROUGH. FOUR TEEN GENERATIONS.
A remarkable case of inheritance of tho abnormal fingers possessed by the first Earl of Shrewsbury, related by Dr. H. Drinkwater to the Royal Society of is reported in the "Lancet."
lii a direct male descendant of the Earl the ring and little fingers of both hands had only one joint, the first two bones being united, and all the toes, except the great one, were similarly affected.
This man's father and paternal grandfather showed the same abnormality, and when the body of the first Lord Shrewsbury was exhumed in 1874 it was found that his fingers wore in' a like condition. As ho died in 1453, this peculiarity has come down nearly 500 years, passing through fourteen generations. ■
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3073, 8 May 1917, Page 6
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129STRANGE INHERITANCE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3073, 8 May 1917, Page 6
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