While the foregoing instance is an
exception, it is not extraordinary in the present day to see
persons with artificial limbs riding bicycles, and even in
Philadelphia, May 30, 1896, there was a special bicycle race for
one-legged contestants.
The instances of interesting cases of foreign bodies in the
extremities are not numerous. In some cases the foreign body is
tolerated many years in this location. There are to-day many
veterans who have bullets in their extremities. Girdwood speaks
of the removal of a foreign body after twenty-five years'
presence in the forearm. Pike mentions a man in India, who, at
the age of twenty-two, after killing a wounded hare in the usual
manner by striking it on the back of the neck with the side of
the hand, noticed a slight cut on the hand which soon healed but
left a lump under the skin. It gave him no trouble until two
months before the time of report, when he asked to have the lump
removed, thinking it was a stone. It was cut down upon and
removed, and proved to be the spinous process of the vertebra of
a hare. The bone was living and healthy and had formed a sort of
arthrodial joint on the base of the phalanx of the little finger
and had remained in this position for nearly twenty-two years.
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