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, noticed 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.