Blue Toes

Time, TOEs, and UltraStructuralism

Mathematics, broadly speaking, is the science of patterns. Physics, broadly speaking, is the search for patterns in the natural world. Eugene Wigner’s [12] famous problem concerning the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences” constitutes an expression of puzzlement over the empirical success of physics, based as it is on mathematics. Put this way, of course, the prob...

Supernumerary Fingers and Toes

4 0 7 SUPERNUMERARY FINGERS AND TOES. Bv J. W. CORNWALL, M.A., M.D., d.p.h., LIEUT.-COL., I.M.S., AND S. RAMASAMY AYYAR, Sub-Assistant Surgeon. In the hope that'they may be of some interest and use to students of heredity we publish the pedigrees of two Hindu families each of which possesses several members afflicted with either supernumerary fingers or toes or both. One female from family 2 ma...

Possible Functional Moving Toes Syndrome

BACKGROUND Moving toes syndrome has been classically described as an organic movement disorder, on occasion related to peripheral nerve injuries. The association between nerve trauma and movement disorders has become a controversial topic, and the functional etiology of moving toes syndrome has recently been proposed. CASE REPORT We describe two cases of moving toes syndrome with clinical fea...

A man with purple toes.

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'Scissor deformity' of the toes.