ne of his earlier sinuosity. His chief
feat is to stow himself away in a box 23 X 29 X 16 inches. When inside,
six dozen wooden bottles of the same size and shape as those which
ordinarily contain English soda water are carefully stowed away, packed
in with him, and the lid slammed down. He bestows upon this act the
curious and suggestive name of "Packanatomicalization."

Another class of individuals are those who can either partially or
completely dislocate the major articulations of the body. Many persons
exhibit this capacity in their fingers. Persons vulgarly called "double
jointed" are quite common.

Charles Warren, an American contortionist, has been examined by several
medical men of prominence and descriptions of him have appeared from
time to time in prominent medical journals. When he was but a child he
was constantly tumbling down, due to the heads of the femurs slipping
from the acetabula, but reduction was always easy. When eight years old
he joined a company of acrobats and strolling performers, and was
called by the euphonious title of "the Yankee dish-rag." His muscular
system was well-developed, and, like Sandow, he could make muscles act
in concert or separately.

He could throw into energetic single action the biceps, the supinator
longus, the radial extensors, the platysma myoides, and many other
muscles. When he "strings," as he called it, the sartorius, that ribbon
muscle shows itself as a tight cord, extending from the front of the
iliac spine to the inner side of the knee. Another trick was to leave
flaccid that part of the serratus magnus which is attached to the
inferior angle of the scapula whilst he roused energetic contraction in
the rhomboids. He could displace his muscles so that the lower angles
of the scapulae projected and presented the appearance historically
attributed to luxation of the scapula.

Warren was well informed on surgical landmarks and had evidently been a
close student of Sir Astley Cooper's classical illustrations of
dislocations. He was able so to contract his abdominal muscles that the
aorta could be distinctly felt with the fingers. In this feat nearly
all the abdominal contents were crowded beneath the diaphragm. On the
other hand, he could produce a phantom abdominal tumor by driving the
coils of the intestine within a peculiar grasp of the rectus and
oblique muscles. The "growth" was rounded, dull on percussion, and
looked as if an exploratory incision or punc