Show Remarks remarkable ble case of heredity A remarkable case of inheritance of the abnormal fingers pods possessed essed by the first earl 0 of shrewsbury related by dr 11 Drink drankwater waier to the royal so clety of medicine Is reported in tho the london lancet in a direct male do de aut of the earl the ring finger fange and little fingers of both hands had only one joint the first two bones being united and all the toes except one were weri similarly affected this mans father and paternal grandfather showed the same abnormality and when the body of the first lord shrewsbury yas was exhumed in 1874 it i ans as found chati his fingers were in a ellke ilke condition As he died ln 1453 this peculiarity has come down nearl nearly 50 years through 14 generations |