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AN EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY. 
that had been lame for three years of the navicular joint disease, 
and contracted fore feet. The patient had been frequently relieved 
by the various remedies that are applied for this disease ; but 
at last, he defied all treatment, became totally useless, and the 
owner wished to have him destroyed. I told him that T thought 
the horse might become useful again if he was unnerved, to which 
the owner readily consented. 
On the 10th September last the horse was led, but with great 
difficulty, to the casting-bed. Having got him cast, and properly 
secured, I commenced the operation by making an incision of 
about one inch in length, a little above the fetlock-joint of each 
leg, and excised about one inch of each metacarpal nerve ; after 
which the orifices were secured with sutures and bandages, and 
the horse allowed to get up, and he walked away apparently free 
of all lameness, to the great astonishment of many of the by- 
standers. In a few days the sutures sloughed away, and he was 
put to work, at which he has continued ever since, to the great 
satisfaction of the owner. 
AN EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY. 
By Mr. George Horsfield, V.S., Wentworth. 
An aged cow, of the short-horned breed, the property of Earl 
Fitzwilliam, at one of his lordship’s dairies, at Wentworth, near 
Rotherham, Yorkshire, brought forth on the 29th of May, 1844, 
four remarkably fine calves, two males and two females, all alive ; 
but they shortly died. One of the calves lived until the second 
day. They were got by his lordship’s noted high bred bull, Tan- 
kersley, of the short-horned breed. 
It may be remarked, that in this animal the procreative pro- 
perty is greater than is generally the case in high-bred animals of 
this class. The cow was greatly exhausted ; her respiration was 
hurried, and she had nourishing gruels and aperient doses of medi- 
cine given for the first two days. On the third day her respiration 
became natural, and her appetite and strength improved. 
The placentas were retained. 
On the fourth day I gave the following doses, one every other 
day, and repeated the same until the membranes came away, which 
did not take place till the tenth day, when the last of them sepa- 
rated. 
