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.