ticed 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.

White has described a case in which a nail broken off in the foot,
separated into 26 splinters, which, after intense suffering, were
successfully removed. There was a case recently reported of a man
admitted to the Bellevue Hospital, New York, whose arm was supposed to
have been fractured by an explosion, but instead of which 11 feet of
lead wire were found in it by the surgeons. The man was a machinist in
the employ of the East River Lead Co., and had charge of a machine
which converted molten lead into wire. This machine consists of a steel
box into which the lead is forced, being pressed through an aperture
1/8 inch in diameter by hydraulic pressure of 600 tons. Reaching the
air, the lead becomes hard and is wound on a large wheel in the form of
wire. Just before the accident this small aperture had become clogged,
and the patient seized the projecting wire in his hand, intending to
free the action of the machine, as he had previously done on many
occasions, by a sharp, strong pull; but in so doing an explosion
occurred, and he was hurled to the floor unconscious. While on the way
to the hospital in the ambulance, he became conscious and complained of
but little pain except soreness of the left arm about the elbow. The
swelling, which had developed very rapidly, made it impossible for the
surgeons to make an examination, but on the following day, when the
inflammation had subsided sufficiently, a diagnosis of fracture of the
bones of the arm was made. There was no external injury of the skin of
any magnitude, and the surgeons decided to cut down on the trifling
contusion, and remove what appeared to be a fragment of bone, lodged
slightly above the wrist. An anesthetic was administered, and an
incision made, but to the amazement of the operators, instead of bone,
a piece of wire one inch in length and 1/8 inch in diameter was
removed. On further exploration piece after piece of the wire was taken
out until finally the total length