Note 22 — PART I.
Reading edition
A thrush was exhibited before the British Association at Hull in 1853 which had lost its tarsus, and this member, it was asserted, had been thrice reproduced; having been lost, I presume, each time by disease. Sir J. Paget informs me that he feels some doubt about the facts recorded by Sir J. Simpson (‘Monthly Journal of Medical Science,’ Edinburgh, 1848, new series, vol. ii., p. 890) of the re-growth of limbs in the womb in the case of man.