Medical Warning! Considerable discussion has been aroused among physicians and wheelmen by the recent publication of a report that a woman had gone insane from excessive riding of the bicycle... This is not the only case of its kind... The disease of wheel insanity has not gained much foothold yet, doctors say, because it has not had time. Bicycling is as yet in its infancy and so are the diseases connected with it. The bicycle hump is only beginning to develop, while it will require fully a generation to establish the bicycle face, foot, arm and other eccentricities. The Acadian Recorder, Halifax, 4 March, 1896.
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