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FCETAL LYSTUKIA. 



these are included in Guiit's classification, which we would advise the 

 veterinary obstetrist, as a rule, to employ. 



The Polymelian (/xeAo?, limh) monstrosities — Gurlt's Melodidymi — 

 comprise those creatures which are so frequently exhibited in public, 

 and in which there is only a single body and head, but supernumerary 



Fig. 119. 

 MoNOSOMiAN Monstrosity; Dicephahts bi-atlanticui (Guklt) : Calk. 



limbs. These limbs may vary in number, and be attached to various 

 parts of the complete foetus ; there may also be present, in addition to 

 the supernumerary members, an unformed kind of tumour resting on 

 the back or shoulders, which in one case has been recognised to be 



Fig. 120. 

 Polymelian Monstrosity ; Emprosthromelophorus (Guklt) : Calk. 



composed of the heart and lungs of a second foetus (Fig. 121). In 

 other instances, the tumour is alone observed, without the additional 

 limbs. ^ 



^ It is not improbable that the " Nadeah " bullock of India is an animal with a 

 parasitic monstrosity attached to it. A Bull of this kind has been described, by an 

 amateur, as having "an excrescence of skin, covered with white hair, hanging from the 

 top of the hump, about seven inches long and of a soft nature, in appearance resembling 



