What he claims to have seen is probably discountable as a hallucination.

He said he would eat his hat if more than ten people came. He'd better fetch a knife and fork!

Your name is like a golden bell Hung in my heart; and when I think of you, I tremble, and the bell swings and rings - Roxane! Roxane!...along my veins, Roxane!

Drinkwater described an eventually asymmetrical brachyhypophalangia of the index, ring and little fingers. He noted brachymesophalangia of the thumb and middle finger.