The bones exfoliated, the spine and the acromial end of the scapula came away, and a good stump was formed.
Figure 212 represents the patient at the age of twenty-eight.
By ingenious mechanical contrivances persons who have lost an extremity are enabled to perform the ordinary functions of the missing member with but slight deterioration.

Artificial arms, hands, and legs have been developed to such a degree of perfection that the modern mechanisms of this nature are very unlike the cumbersome and intricate contrivances formerly used.
Le Progres Medical contains an interesting account of a curious contest held between dismembered athletes at Nogent-Sur-Marne, a small town in the Department of the Seine, in France.

Responding to a general invitation, no less than seven individuals who had lost either leg or thigh, competed in running races 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.