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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5348, 18 May 1878, Page 3

The great-great-grandfather of a family named Gamelin, living in the north of France, had two thumbs on each hand and' two big toes on each foot. .Kacb had its reparate nail, and wore united as far as the last, joint. Independent of sound marriages, the descendants to the present day, both sexes alike, exhibit these deviations—a very remarkable instance of the influence of heridity on conformation. M. Quatrefages points to a parallel fact in the case of bam-door fowls, where a cock with double spurs has produced quite a now typo of poultry, all possessing the same permanent singularity. ... ■ If what is here stated is well founded on experience, it behoves us to be careful in the use of tlie jaw, and not, be indifferent to the inherent tendencies of so important an organ to got out- of order. The Geelony Adeertuer remarks that lockjaw can be produced in more ways than one; but a lady named Ann Tannon, residing at Cowio’s Creek, seems to have dislocated her. jaw in a.most peculiar manner on Saturday night .or . .Sunday ■ morning. Waking up early on Sunday-morning, she found she could not open; her mouth, and- she was at once brought fo tho hospital, wliore it .was,found she,was suffering from lockjaw.; As t!x6 patient could not account for the accident, ■ the.mcdical staff surmised that whilst yawning in her sleep the disarrangement* of (ho bones took place.., ■