as extracted.
Deckers tells of a gentleman who was wounded in the right
hypochondrium, the ball being taken thirty years afterward from the
knee. Borellus gives an account of a thorn entering the digit and
passing out of the body by the anus.

Strange as it may seem, a prick of a pin not entering a vital center or
organ has been the indirect cause of death. Augenius writes of a tailor
who died in consequence of a prick of a needle between the nail and
flesh of the end of the thumb. Amatus Lusitanus mentions a similar
instance in an old woman, although, from the symptoms given, the direct
cause was probably tetanus. In modern times Cunninghame, Boring, and
Hobart mention instances in which death has followed the prick of a
pin: in Boring's case the death occurred on the fifth day.

Manufacture of Crippled Beggars.--Knowing the sympathy of the world in
general for a cripple, in some countries low in the moral scale,
voluntary mutilation is sometimes practiced by those who prefer begging
to toiling. In the same manner artificial monstrosities have been
manufactured solely for gain's sake. We quite often read of these
instances in lay-journals, but it is seldom that a case comes under the
immediate observation of a thoroughly scientific mind. There is,
however, on record a remarkable instance accredited to Jamieson of
Shanghai who presented to the Royal College of Surgeons a pair of feet
with the following history: Some months previously a Chinese beggar had
excited much pity and made a good business by showing the mutilated
stumps of his legs, and the feet that had belonged to them slung about
his neck. While one day scrambling out of the way of a constable who
had forbidden this gruesome spectacle, he was knocked down by a
carriage in the streets of Shanghai, and was taken to the hospital,
where he was questioned about the accident which deprived him of his
feet. After selling the medical attendant his feet he admitted that he
had purposely performed the amputations himself, starting about a year
previously. He had fastened cords about his ankles, drawing them as
tightly as he could bear them, and increasing the pressure every two or
three days. For a fortnight his pain was extreme, but when the bones
were bared his pains ceased. At the end of a month and a half he was
able to entirely remove his feet by partly snapping and partly cutting
the dry bone. Such cases appear to be quite common in China, and by
investigation