ces for prizes. The enterprising cripples
were divided into two classes: the cuissards, or those who had lost a
thigh, and jambards, or those who had lost a leg; and, contrary to what
might have been expected, the grand champion came from the former
class. The distance in each race was 200 meters. M. Roullin, whose
thigh, in consequence of an accident, was amputated in 1887, succeeded
in traversing the course in the remarkable time of thirty seconds
(about 219 yards); whereas M. Florrant, the speediest jambard, required
thirty-six seconds to run the same distance; and was, moreover,
defeated by two other cuissards besides the champion. The junior race
was won in thirty-five seconds, and this curious day's sport was ended
by a course de consolation, which was carried off in thirty-three
seconds by M. Mausire, but whether he was a cuissard or a jambard was
not stated.

On several occasions in England, cricket matches have been organized
between armless and legless men. In Charles Dickens' paper, "All the
Year Round," October 5, 1861, there is a reference to a cricket match
between a one-armed eleven and a one-legged eleven. There is a recent
report from De Kalb, Illinois, of a boy of thirteen who had lost both
legs and one arm, but who was nevertheless enabled to ride a bicycle
specially constructed for him by a neighboring manufacturer. With one
hand he guided the handle bar, and bars of steel attached to his stumps
served as legs. He experienced no trouble in balancing the wheel; it is
said that he has learned to dismount, and soon expects to be able to
mount alone; although riding only three weeks, he has been able to
traverse one-half a mile in two minutes and ten seconds. 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, no