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IX. ^art of a Letter from Mr, B. Sherman 
to Dr, Hans Sloane, (2^. S. Sec. concern- 
ing the Bones of a dead foetus, taken out of 
the Uterus of a Cow and of a Callus 
that fupplied the Lofs of Tart of the Os 
Femoris. 
SIR, 
Y OU will receive with this a Curiofity which I 
thought might not be unacceptable to you 5 ‘tis 
the Bones ot a Calf that periflied in the Uterus of its’ 
Dam after the following manner, as I had the Account 
from the Perfon who fold the Cow to the But- 
cher. 
The Cow was very unthrifry, for which they 
gave her Cow Phylick, and fuch Drinks as they ap^ 
prehended proper for her ^ notwithhanding which (he 
frew vvorfe, and continued a great while in a lean, 
pining, wafting Condition, and was reduc’d to fa 
weak a State, that they concluded (he would dye^ 
when on a fudden (lie began to eat her Meat, and 
did thrive fo very faft, that in Six or Eight Months 
j&ie was fo fat as to be Sold to the Butchery who, 
when he kill’d her, found .thefe Bones in her U- 
iemiSy jud as you will fee them in the Box^ full as 
