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EXTRA-UTERINE FCETUS. 
Mr. Truckle, M.R.C.V.S., Salisbury, has sent us an 
extra-uterine foetus from a sheep, accompanied with the 
following note : — 
To-day, May 1 6th, a friend of mine, a butcher, called to 
me as I was passing by, and he said that he had something to 
show me. It was a lamb of good size, and which you will also 
see is perfect in form. He told me he had just taken it from 
the abdomen of a fat sheep, enclosed in a bag, and attached 
to the rumen. On opening the abdomen in the usual way, 
he thought that it contained a tumour of some kind. The 
uterus, which I likewise send, is very small, but seems per- 
fect. I saw the sheep after it was killed, and it was a very 
fat one. The case appears to me to be somewhat remarkable, 
and therefore I have troubled you with these few particulars. 
[The lamb, as stated by Mr. Truckle, was a fully formed 
animal. Its integument, however, was imperfect in places, and 
had seemingly been forcibly detached from an investing mem- 
brane; in other parts it was entire and covered with wool. 
The uterus did not exceed in size that of an animal that has 
been but once impregnated, and its coats gave no evidence of 
having been ruptured.] 
EPIZOOTIC AMONG SHEEP. 
In the eastern provinces of Russia, a very fatal disease 
has broken out among the sheep, arising no doubt from the 
bad harvest of the previous year, which occasioned a want 
of fodder. The sheep are dying in such numbers that the 
price of wool has, in consequence, much risen. 
OCCLUSION OE THE EYES IN DISEASES OE THESE ORGANS. 
By M. Bonnafont. 
The Academie de Medecine has been engaged in a very 
long discussion upon the usefulness of the occlusion of the 
eyes in cases of diseases of these organs. The originator of 
this discussion is a military physician, M. Bonnafont, who 
thought, when he made his first communication to the 
Academy, that the occlusion of the lids was the best means of 
treatment for almost every kind of ophthalmia. He states, 
