260 CASE OF LIJSUS NATURJE IN TWIN CALVES. 
ing, by bleeding, febrifuge and aperient medicine, blisters, &c. ; 
but all proved ineffectual. Subsequently, others were attacked, 
and I repeated the treatment ; but with the same effect. 
Post-mortem examination disclosed the appearances accu- 
rately described, I think, by Youatt, viz. the peculiar venous 
congestion, with intense inflammation of the heart, & c. As I 
considered there was a probability of the remainder becoming 
attacked, I prevailed on the owner to have them placed under 
treatment ; to which he consented, though not without express- 
ing his doubts as to its utility. I put setons in the dewlaps 
of each of them ; gave repeated doses of medicine, &c., and I 
am happy to say none of them, up to the present time, have 
been amiss, though they are kept in the same situation, and 
fed with the same kind of food as the others. I think, there- 
fore, I may safely say I succeeded in arresting this fatal ma- 
lady ; for so fatal has it proved that not any kind of treatment 
has been of service, when once it has commenced. Should 
this hasty sketch be the means of eliciting some further remarks, 
and should you deem it worth insertion, it is at your service. 
I am, Sir, your’s, &c. 
14th April, 1851. 
SINGULAR CASE OF LUSUS NATURE IN TWIN 
CALVES. 
By S. Meginnis, V.S., Horsham. 
I WAS sent for by Mr. G. Lendall, butcher and farmer, of this 
town, to attend a cow of his that had shewn symptoms of 
calving yesterday evening. The pains had gone off, and come 
on again this morning. His cowman found two feet, and 
with a little assistance he thought it would be all right. About 
nine o’clock, as the calf made no progress, they came for me. 
On introducing my hand I could feel two feet. Finding the 
head in a natural position, I immediately attached a line to the 
fore feet, and pulled gently. The calf not coming, I again in- 
troduced my hand, and could feel three legs, which I found to 
belong to two calves, and all the three legs proved fore ones, 
and the odd leg belonged to what I could distinctly feel was a 
deformed calf, it having a curiously-formed head. But I was 
not able to examine it farther than the neck. I then, after at- 
tempting in vain to return, as I thought, the natural calf, and 
extract the deformed one first, had recourse to embryotomy. I 
