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PLACENTA PREVIA. 
hereafter. Those who are interested should apply through 
Her Majesty’s principal veterinary surgeon to the com- 
mander-in-chief, who has been in India, and is best able to 
judge in this matter. The Editor of the Veterinarian has very 
correctly stated the case, except that the medical board has 
nothing to do with the veterinary department ; the depots 
for medicine are under their charge, and documents, if checked 
or passed by a principal veterinary surgeon, as these no doubt 
should be, would ultimately go to the board as usual. 
PLACENTA PRiEVIA. 
By T. Younghusband, Y.S., Greystoke. 
Dear Sir, — Previous to my giving these few lines a con- 
sideration, I had been perusing an account of some cases of 
placenta praevia in the human subject, which brought to my 
mind, or rather recollection, two cases, which I think present 
a similarity. 
The first case occurred a few years ago. It was a cow 
belonging to a Mr. Wright, then of Howhill, in my neigh- 
bourhood, but who now 7 resides in the vicinity of the city 
of Carlisle. This explanation I give, lest I may be suspected 
of misgivings. Upon visiting this patient, I was informed, 
on that morning, Saturday, it being market-day at Carlisle, 
that Mr W. having started for the same, as he w 7 as travelling 
through his own field, in w hich the cow 7 s w T ere grazing, his 
eye, as it were by accident, caught sight of a newly-passed 
placenta, and, knowing that one of the cows was near her 
regular time of parturition, he immediately returned, and 
informed his family that he suspected such a cow had calved 
from his having found the placenta, though he could find no 
calf, and that they w 7 ere to look after her, and seek for the 
calf. The order w 7 as obeyed, but after a diligent search, no 
calf could be found. So they drove the cow home, attending 
to her as is usual in such cases, &c. While in the act, how- 
ever, of milking, the cow began to show uneasiness, and to 
evince evident signs of approaching parturition, w hich gave 
cause for my being sent for. “On examining my patient, I 
found a dead foetus, with all four legs presenting, w 7 hich w as 
wdththe greatest difficulty extracted; though, after its removal, 
with a little careful attention for a few days towards its 
mother, she ultimately did well. 
Again, in November last, I w 7 as requested by a Mr. Merry- 
