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ness and pain, however, remained so much that he walked very 
lame, and scarcely moved during the following day and night. 
Cold lotions, a dose of physic, and a loose box, completed the 
cure. The lameness gradually lessened; and at the end of a fort- 
night, on taking him into the yard, it was not perceptible in his 
walk, and but slightly so in trotting. 
I send this report merely on account of its novelty, and, most 
assuredly, not because it reflects any credit on myself. Should I 
ever meet with another such case, the reduction shall be effected 
immediately after the accident; but the fact is, I had never seen 
such a case before, and had never read of such an one. 1 had 
never even heard of such a case before ; nay, I am tolerabty cer- 
tain some one has said somewhere that there never was such 
a case as that of dislocation of the large joints ; and, therefore, 
as there never has been, although it does not of necessity follow 
that there never should be such a case, yet, as the chances were 
certainly against its occurring at all, and still greater against 
its occurring in my own individual practice, and in that parti- 
cular yard in which it did happen, I certainly had not been 
keeping any very sharp look out for it, and, consequently, was 
quite taken a-back instead of going a-head, and putting it to 
rights immediately — as you ought to have done, doubtless, will 
exclaim many, who, like the friends of the discoverer of the 
fourth continent, ridiculed the idea of there being any difficulty 
in making an egg stand on end after having seen it first broken. 
These, however, are the only extenuating circumstances I have 
to advance in palliation of my not jumping at a conclusion ; and 
those who do not think them satisfactory, must even substitute 
better should they ever get (improbable idea !) professionally 
puzzled. 
THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE OX. 
By Mr. W. F. Karkeek, V.S., Truro. 
[Continued from vol. xv, page 312.] 
H aving, in two previous papers on the ‘‘Ancient History of 
the Ox,” confined our attention chiefly to his geological history, 
from which we learn that, at a period incalculably remote, he 
existed on our island in quite a different zoology from the pre- 
sent one, we will now proceed briefly to consider some points in 
his history since the creation of man and the establishment of the 
present order of things, which we are taught by revelation and 
by natural records took place about (1000 years since. 
It is generally considered by natural historians, that the do- 
